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Tufts researchers use machine learning to identify new drug cocktails against tuberculosis

Imagine you have 20 new compounds that have shown some effectiveness in treating a disease like tuberculosis (TB), which affects 10 million people worldwide and kills 1.5 million each year.

14 Sep 2022

COVID-19 booster shots well-tolerated by pregnant and nursing women

The COVID-19 booster shots are well tolerated by both pregnant and nursing women, a new study published Sept.8 in JAMA Network Open concluded.

14 Sep 2022

Large molecules glom together into dense droplets to create squishy circuits in cells

An emerging field explores how groups of molecules condense together inside cells, the way oil droplets assemble and separate from water in a vinaigrette.

14 Sep 2022

Customized bivalent mRNA COVID boosters protect against BA.5 Omicron variant

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* pre-print server, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine, Moderna, Inc, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health tested two bivalent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines based on the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) platform.

14 Sep 2022

Simple phone-based outreach strategy can help engage low-income smokers to try quitting tobacco

New findings published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research show a simple, but valuable approach can help engage low-income smokers to try quitting tobacco.

14 Sep 2022

Study reveals cellular underpinnings of motor memory acquisition and consolidation

When you are first learning how to ride a bicycle or play a musical instrument, your physical movements are uncoordinated at best.

14 Sep 2022

Expanding screening could help prevent sudden cardiac death in young people with HCM

Nearly nine in ten cases of sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in young people are preceded by symptoms, ECG abnormalities or a positive family history, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Erik Börjesson of Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden, and colleagues.

14 Sep 2022

Winners of the 2022 CURE-19 Research Pilot Grants announced

The Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and NYC Health + Hospitals have announced the 2022 awardees of the CURE-19 Research Pilot Grants, an initiative to support collaborative, interdisciplinary COVID-19 research that will address both the pandemic and root causes of health disparities in New York City.

14 Sep 2022

Microneedle technology for low-cost, painless, and bloodless tattoos

Instead of sitting in a tattoo chair for hours enduring painful punctures, imagine getting tattooed by a skin patch containing microscopic needles.

14 Sep 2022

Contrast-enhanced in-phase Dixon shows higher sensitivity for detecting breast biopsy clips on MRI

According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), the contrast-enhanced in-phase Dixon sequence could reduce the need for correlation among other imaging modalities to better identify areas of prior biopsy during breast MRI interpretation.

14 Sep 2022

Culture-related educational program benefits the health and well-being of Native American youth

Native American youth in the U.S. experience higher rates of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts.

14 Sep 2022

Neisseria species are linked to worsening bronchiectasis in patients, study shows

A team of international scientists led by the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has discovered that Neisseria - a genus of bacteria that lives in the human body - is not as harmless as previously thought, and can cause infections in patients with bronchiectasis, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

14 Sep 2022

STRATAGEM aims to provide new perspectives on multidrug-resistant solid tumors

Achieving a good efficacy of chemotherapy is one of the major challenges still unresolved in oncological patients. The main limitation to the efficacy of chemotherapy is the multidrug-resistant (MDR) phenotype, a multiple cross-resistance towards different anticancer drugs.

14 Sep 2022

Experts question the role of white mulberry in the death of Congressman’s wife

Scientists, doctors, and pathologists are questioning the Sacramento County coroner's conclusion that Lori McClintock's death was related to white mulberry, a plant that has been used as an herbal remedy for centuries — and one that the coroner's botanical consultant called "not toxic" in a letter to her office.

14 Sep 2022

Scientists identify two distinct subtypes of obesity

A team led by Van Andel Institute scientists has identified two distinct types of obesity with physiological and molecular differences that may have lifelong consequences for health, disease and response to medication.

14 Sep 2022

Air pollution may trigger arrhythmias in healthy adolescents

Breathing particulate matter (i.e., tiny particles suspended in the air) air pollution may trigger irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias) in healthy teenagers, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

14 Sep 2022

Medicine News and Research

Tufts researchers use machine learning to identify new drug cocktails against tuberculosis

COVID-19 booster shots well-tolerated by pregnant and nursing women

Large molecules glom together into dense droplets to create squishy circuits in cells

Customized bivalent mRNA COVID boosters protect against BA.5 Omicron variant

Simple phone-based outreach strategy can help engage low-income smokers to try quitting tobacco

Study reveals cellular underpinnings of motor memory acquisition and consolidation

Expanding screening could help prevent sudden cardiac death in young people with HCM

Winners of the 2022 CURE-19 Research Pilot Grants announced

Microneedle technology for low-cost, painless, and bloodless tattoos

Contrast-enhanced in-phase Dixon shows higher sensitivity for detecting breast biopsy clips on MRI

Culture-related educational program benefits the health and well-being of Native American youth

Neisseria species are linked to worsening bronchiectasis in patients, study shows

STRATAGEM aims to provide new perspectives on multidrug-resistant solid tumors

Experts question the role of white mulberry in the death of Congressman’s wife

Scientists identify two distinct subtypes of obesity

Air pollution may trigger arrhythmias in healthy adolescents

NIH researchers identify specific network of proteins critical to restore hearing in zebrafish

Southern states’ lackluster monkeypox efforts leave LGBTQ+ groups going it alone

California and New York aim to curb diet pill sales to minors

Study explores the impact of genetic risk variants on overall disease burden and healthy life years

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Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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