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Study finds link between mental imagery and vision

Medical University of South Carolina researchers report in Current Biology that the brain uses similar visual areas for mental imagery and vision, but it uses low-level visual areas less precisely with mental imagery than with vision.

12 Jul 2020

Researchers develop new approach to assess changes in tumor microenvironment

Research has shown that the tumor microenvironment (TME) can help cancers grow and evade the immune response. The TME has even been shown to inhibit cellular immunotherapy, a novel form of treatment in which the cells of a patient's immune system are re-engineered in the lab to attack cancer cells.

12 Jul 2020

First extensive review of COVID-19's effects on all affected organs outside the lungs

After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York City, Aakriti Gupta, MD, realized that this was much more than a respiratory disease.

12 Jul 2020

New study to examine COVID-19's impact on the mental health of older adults

Rates of depression and stress have increased among the general population since the COVID-19 pandemic began. However, we know little about the current state of mental health of older adults (65+), who are at a higher risk for illness and death due to infection, and account for more than 95% of COVID-19 deaths in Ontario.

12 Jul 2020

Gender bias may be decreasing in evaluating surgical residency faculty members

In the male-dominated field of surgery, female faculty of training programs tend to receive lower scores than male faculty on their teaching evaluations, which are important for career advancement, past research has found.

12 Jul 2020

GE Healthcare selects UH to evaluate new mobile x-ray system enabled with Critical Care Suite

GE Healthcare chose University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in November of 2019 as the first hospital in the US to evaluate its new mobile x-ray system enabled with Critical Care Suite, the world's first on-device AI solution for triage & notification of critical findings and quality errors.

12 Jul 2020

Aerosol boxes increase healthcare workers' exposure to COVID-19

A new study shows that certain aerosol boxes of a similar type to those that have been manufactured and used in hospitals in the UK and around the world in order to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 can actually increase exposure to airborne particles that carry the virus, and thus casts doubt on their usefulness.

12 Jul 2020

COVID-19-associated stroke patients have higher risk for severe disability and death

Acute ischemic strokes (AIS) associated with COVID-19 are more severe, lead to worse functional outcomes and are associated with higher mortality , according to new research published yesterday in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.

12 Jul 2020

MUSC chosen to build prototype for increasing ICU surge capacity during COVID-19

To prepare for current and future waves of COVID-19, the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center asked teams from across the country to compete to build a telehealth prototype that would provide adequate ICU capacity when cases surge.

12 Jul 2020

Experts develop a simple questionnaire to raise awareness about managing liver disease

Alcohol's popularity and its central place in socializing in Australia obscures the dangers of excessive drinking and possible liver disease, Flinders University experts warn.

11 Jul 2020

Breastfeeding helps mother and baby share 'good bacteria'

A new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of Manitoba has found that bacteria are shared and possibly transferred from a mother's milk to her infant's gut, and that breastfeeding directly at the breast best supports this process.

11 Jul 2020

Concentration of lopinavir and hydroxychloroquine not sufficient to fight novel coronavirus

Lopinavir is a drug against HIV, hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria and rheumatism. Until recently, both drugs were regarded as potential agents in the fight against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

11 Jul 2020

Newly identified gene variants in Black Americans could lead to precision prostate cancer therapies

Black men in the United States are known to suffer disproportionately from prostate cancer, but few studies have investigated whether genetic differences in prostate tumors could have anything to do with these health disparities.

11 Jul 2020

Innovative system aims to improve predictions of survival indicators in breast cancer patients

Improving the predictions of survival indicators in breast cancer patients through artificial intelligence and probabilistic modeling tools is the goal of ModGraProDep, an innovative system presented in a study published in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

11 Jul 2020

ONR Global awards research grant to produce low-cost ventilators for use by hospitals in São Paulo

Brazil has been one of the most affected countries in the world by COVID-19. A group of researchers led by Prof. Marcelo Zuffo and Prof. Raul Lima from the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo received US $ 199,943 for one year from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global. The project is co-funded by ONR’s Warfighter Performance Department.

10 Jul 2020

FIND and Unitaid launch call for EOI to fill major diagnostic gaps in COVID-19 detection

The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics and Unitaid announced today that the organizations have launched a call for expressions of interest to accelerate the availability and manufacturing scale-up of rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 antigens. Reliable, affordable Ag RDTs have been identified as key tools in the global response to COVID-19, as they could enable robust detection of active SARS-CoV-2 infection for both patient management and contact tracing purposes in decentralized settings.

10 Jul 2020

Colorado, like other states, trims health programs amid health crisis

As a teenager, Paulina Castle struggled for years with suicidal thoughts. When her mental health was at its most fragile, she would isolate herself, spending days in her room alone.

10 Jul 2020

Researchers set up Gate2Brain to exploit a novel drug-transporting technology

Researchers from IRB Barcelona, the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute - Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (SJD) have set up Gate2Brain, a company based on a novel technology developed at IRB Barcelona to transport drugs into the brain.

10 Jul 2020

Commentary: Children infrequently transmit Covid-19 to each other

A commentary published in the journal Pediatrics, the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, concludes that children infrequently transmit Covid-19 to each other or to adults and that many schools, provided they follow appropriate social distancing guidelines and take into account rates of transmission in their community, can and should reopen in the fal

10 Jul 2020

Senators Cassidy and Carper urge CMS to update restrictive coverage policies on obesity drugs and IBT

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Thomas Carper (D-Del.) are calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to lift regulations that deny insurance coverage for obesity drugs and that limit coverage of Intensive Behavioral Therapy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

10 Jul 2020

Hospital News and Research

Study finds link between mental imagery and vision

Researchers develop new approach to assess changes in tumor microenvironment

First extensive review of COVID-19's effects on all affected organs outside the lungs

New study to examine COVID-19's impact on the mental health of older adults

Gender bias may be decreasing in evaluating surgical residency faculty members

GE Healthcare selects UH to evaluate new mobile x-ray system enabled with Critical Care Suite

Aerosol boxes increase healthcare workers' exposure to COVID-19

COVID-19-associated stroke patients have higher risk for severe disability and death

MUSC chosen to build prototype for increasing ICU surge capacity during COVID-19

Experts develop a simple questionnaire to raise awareness about managing liver disease

Breastfeeding helps mother and baby share 'good bacteria'

Concentration of lopinavir and hydroxychloroquine not sufficient to fight novel coronavirus

Newly identified gene variants in Black Americans could lead to precision prostate cancer therapies

Innovative system aims to improve predictions of survival indicators in breast cancer patients

ONR Global awards research grant to produce low-cost ventilators for use by hospitals in São Paulo

FIND and Unitaid launch call for EOI to fill major diagnostic gaps in COVID-19 detection

Colorado, like other states, trims health programs amid health crisis

Researchers set up Gate2Brain to exploit a novel drug-transporting technology

Commentary: Children infrequently transmit Covid-19 to each other

Senators Cassidy and Carper urge CMS to update restrictive coverage policies on obesity drugs and IBT

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

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