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Kessler Foundation receives grant to continue the long-running "MS Fellowship in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" program

John DeLuca, PhD, senior vice president of research and training at Kessler Foundation, received a five-year, $468,019 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to continue the long-running "MS Fellowship in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" program.

9 Sep 2022

Duke researchers identify chlamydia’s stealthy cloaking device

Chlamydia, the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial infections, evades detection and elimination inside human cells by use of a cloaking device. But Duke University researchers have grasped the hem of that invisibility cloak and now hope they can pull it apart.

9 Sep 2022

Phase 3 clinical trial commences to evaluate antiviral for monkeypox

A Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the antiviral tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, is now enrolling adults and children with monkeypox infection in the United States.

9 Sep 2022

Ground-breaking plastic film can kill viruses that land on its surface with room light

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have developed a ground-breaking plastic film that can kill viruses that land on its surface with room light.

9 Sep 2022

Study: Racial, ethnic minorities in L.A. County more likely to live as far from cardiac rehabilitation facility

Racial and ethnic minorities in Los Angeles County are more likely to live as far as or farther than five miles from a cardiac rehabilitation facility, according to a new study by investigators at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai.

9 Sep 2022

Gut microbes can also impact a person's neurological and emotional health, UTSW researcher says

The role of the microbiome in intestinal and systemic health has garnered close attention among researchers for many years.

9 Sep 2022

Scientists reverse the effects of lysosomal storage disorders in patient cells and mice

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), and elsewhere have reversed the effects of several life-threatening inherited neurodegenerative diseases called lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) in patient cells and mice.

9 Sep 2022

UT Southwestern scientists identify genetic mutations that contribute to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Using a genetic screening platform developed by a UT Southwestern Nobel Laureate, scientists with the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified genetic mutations that contribute to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), providing a potential future target for therapeutic interventions.

9 Sep 2022

Women and men share most of the same risk factors for cardiovascular disease, global study finds

Women and men share most of the same risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), a large international study has found – the first such study to include people not only from high income countries, but also from low- and middle-income countries where the burden of CVD is the greatest.

9 Sep 2022

HKUMed team estimates a moderate link between antipsychotic use and breast cancer by over 30%

A research team from the Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research (CSMPR), Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) conducted the world's first systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies with over two million individuals and estimated a moderate association between antipsychotic use and breast cancer by over 30%.

9 Sep 2022

Distribution of platinum after chemotherapy may help predict resistance to ovarian cancer treatment

A team of researchers from Japan has discovered that the distribution of platinum within a tumor following platinum-based chemotherapy treatment of ovarian cancer may predict whether the tumor will be resistant to further treatment.

9 Sep 2022

Weill Cornell Medicine receives $61.9 million NIH grant to continue funding its Clinical and Translational Science Center

Weill Cornell Medicine was awarded a $61.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to continue funding its Clinical and Translational Science Center until 2027.

9 Sep 2022

Potential HIV vaccine component leads to strong protection in primates

To block infection from HIV, a successful vaccine will require a combination of ingredients, including at least three antibody targets and a substance that boosts immune responses.

9 Sep 2022

Understanding the molecular pathways that underly nutrient switch in starving cancer cells

Cancer cells often grow in environments that are low in nutrients, and they cope with this challenge by switching their metabolism to using proteins as alternative "food".

9 Sep 2022

Researchers produce high-resolution crystal structure of enzyme critical to SARS-CoV-2 survival

A team of Mount Sinai researchers has produced a high-resolution crystal structure of an enzyme essential to the survival of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

9 Sep 2022

Study finds wide geographic variance in behavioral and social drivers of COVID-19 vaccination

In the first year of its availability, 84.2% of US adults received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Progress in COVID-19 vaccination slowed after April 2021, and millions of Americans remain unvaccinated.

9 Sep 2022

Study helps understand how dietary therapies work for epilepsy

Calorie restriction has long been associated with reduced seizures in epilepsy. New research from Boston Children's Hospital helps explain how fasting affects neurons in the brain and could lead the way to new approaches that would avoid the need for fasting or restrictive diets. The findings were published August 30 in the journal Cell Reports.

9 Sep 2022

Individual COVID-19 infections include multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, research shows

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found wide genetic variation in SARS-CoV-2 viruses among 360 patients whose viral infections were genetically sequenced, showing that all individual infections include multiple variants of the virus.

9 Sep 2022

Vaccination hesitancy more prominent among pregnant women of lower socioeconomic status

A questionnaire of 1,899 pregnant women nationwide representing all 50 states reveals that during the Covid-19 pandemic if a pregnant woman had lower socioeconomic status and/or were African American, she was less likely to have the intention of taking a Covid-19 vaccine or actually receiving it.

9 Sep 2022

Respirator masks used by anesthetists associated with 38% increased risk of airway complications in patients

Personal protective equipment (PPE) was rarely out of the news throughout the peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic.

9 Sep 2022

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Kessler Foundation receives grant to continue the long-running "MS Fellowship in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" program

Duke researchers identify chlamydia’s stealthy cloaking device

Phase 3 clinical trial commences to evaluate antiviral for monkeypox

Ground-breaking plastic film can kill viruses that land on its surface with room light

Study: Racial, ethnic minorities in L.A. County more likely to live as far from cardiac rehabilitation facility

Gut microbes can also impact a person's neurological and emotional health, UTSW researcher says

Scientists reverse the effects of lysosomal storage disorders in patient cells and mice

UT Southwestern scientists identify genetic mutations that contribute to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Women and men share most of the same risk factors for cardiovascular disease, global study finds

HKUMed team estimates a moderate link between antipsychotic use and breast cancer by over 30%

Distribution of platinum after chemotherapy may help predict resistance to ovarian cancer treatment

Weill Cornell Medicine receives $61.9 million NIH grant to continue funding its Clinical and Translational Science Center

Potential HIV vaccine component leads to strong protection in primates

Understanding the molecular pathways that underly nutrient switch in starving cancer cells

Researchers produce high-resolution crystal structure of enzyme critical to SARS-CoV-2 survival

Study finds wide geographic variance in behavioral and social drivers of COVID-19 vaccination

Study helps understand how dietary therapies work for epilepsy

Individual COVID-19 infections include multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, research shows

Vaccination hesitancy more prominent among pregnant women of lower socioeconomic status

Respirator masks used by anesthetists associated with 38% increased risk of airway complications in patients

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