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Analysis of the immune landscape in mild-to-moderate COVID-19

A new study includes an analysis of plasma cytokine levels, peripheral blood immune cell composition, and SARS-CoV-2 specific Igs in COVID-19.

15 Sep 2021

For My Lung Health campaign wins 2021 Pharmaceutical Executive APEX Awards

For My Lung Health, the joint American Thoracic Society and American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) campaign, is the winner of this year's Pharmaceutical Executive APEX Awards in the respiratory category.

15 Sep 2021

Study on B lymphocytes may contribute to the optimization of vaccines

Our bodies can fine-tune the immune response to an infection and make it proportional to the threat at hand.

15 Sep 2021

Hospitals use artificial intelligence to predict Covid patients’ oxygen needs

Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge along with 20 other hospitals from across the world and healthcare technology leader, NVIDIA, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict Covid patients' oxygen needs on a global scale.

15 Sep 2021

Researchers quantify the risk of children suffering severe outcomes from malaria

For the first time in more than two decades, a team from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and University of Oxford have quantified the risk of children suffering severe outcomes from malaria.

15 Sep 2021

New genetic classifier can predict the sensitivity of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer

A research team by Prof. YANG Wulin and DAI Haiming from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently proposed a genetic classifier that can predict the sensitivity of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer in the field of tumor molecular markers.

15 Sep 2021

AI test provides Covid-19 screening results quicker than lateral flow tests

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) test performed by the bedside in 10 minutes quickly and safely triages patients coming to hospital for Covid-19, a University of Oxford-led study has shown.

15 Sep 2021

Biden releases a new plan to combat covid, but experts say there’s still a ways to go

On the campaign trail last year, Joe Biden promised that, if elected president, he would get covid-19 under control. Since assuming office in January, Biden has continued to pledge that his administration would do its best to get Americans vaccinated against covid and allow life to return to some semblance of normal.

15 Sep 2021

A protein found to be effective at reversing aging in skeletal muscle cells

A University at Buffalo-led research team has shown that a protein named for the mythical land of youth in Irish folklore is effective at reversing aging in skeletal muscle cells.

15 Sep 2021

Brain changes may explain the profound altered behavior associated with LSD

Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, is a potent hallucinogen that alters the perception of reality. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered changes in the brain, triggered by the drug, that may explain the profound altered behavior associated with LSD, helping to understand how the brain generates behavior.

15 Sep 2021

New technology offers a faster, easier and more efficient way to study gene function

Studying the role genes play on basic biology and disease is now easier, faster and more efficient, say researchers at Baylor College of Medicine.

15 Sep 2021

Respiratory emissions during labor and delivery can increase the risk of disease transmission

Some medical procedures can put health care workers at higher risk for contracting COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases.

15 Sep 2021

Hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder die at a rate comparable to heart attack patients

Hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder died at a rate comparable to those who suffered heart attacks within a year of hospital discharge, according to a new study from Oregon Health & Science University.

15 Sep 2021

Blood clot risks are high following SARS-CoV-2 infection, not vaccination

Researchers from the University of Oxford have today announced the results of a study into thrombocytopenia (a condition with low platelet counts) and thromboembolic events (blood clots) following vaccination for Covid-19, some of the same events which have led to restricted use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in a number of countries.

15 Sep 2021

New animated video explores how social media affects people with eating disorders

Researchers from Loughborough University have teamed up with UK charity Beat to create an animated video that explores how social media affects people with an eating disorder.

15 Sep 2021

UNSW Sydney scientists discover how tiny anchors help the cells to stay in place

Most of the cells in our bodies – be they bone, muscle or pancreas cells – are locked into the right place with the help of tiny anchors.

15 Sep 2021

Study highlights need to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S.

Researchers in the United States have warned that as of July 15th this year (2021), the level of population immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – may still have been insufficient to contain infection outbreaks and safely return to pre-pandemic social behavior.

15 Sep 2021

Study finds substantial decline in physical, cognitive, or psychological health among older people

Up to three quarters of older individuals in Latin America, India and China experienced significant decline in physical, cognitive, or psychological health over a three- to five-year period, according to a study published September 14th in PLOS Medicine by Martin Prince and A. Matthew Prina of King's College London, and colleagues.

14 Sep 2021

Pregnancy complications with COVID-19

An important new article published in the Clinical Medicine Journal discusses pregnancy complicated with COVID-19.

14 Sep 2021

MS patients receiving aCD20 treatment mount robust T-cell responses to COVID-19 vaccines

New research shows that Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients undergoing anti-CD20 (aCD20) treatment – which depletes the B cells that contribute to the MS attacks – are able to mount robust T-cell responses to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, despite having a muted antibody response to the vaccines.

14 Sep 2021

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Analysis of the immune landscape in mild-to-moderate COVID-19

For My Lung Health campaign wins 2021 Pharmaceutical Executive APEX Awards

Study on B lymphocytes may contribute to the optimization of vaccines

Hospitals use artificial intelligence to predict Covid patients’ oxygen needs

Researchers quantify the risk of children suffering severe outcomes from malaria

New genetic classifier can predict the sensitivity of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer

AI test provides Covid-19 screening results quicker than lateral flow tests

Biden releases a new plan to combat covid, but experts say there’s still a ways to go

A protein found to be effective at reversing aging in skeletal muscle cells

Brain changes may explain the profound altered behavior associated with LSD

New technology offers a faster, easier and more efficient way to study gene function

Respiratory emissions during labor and delivery can increase the risk of disease transmission

Hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder die at a rate comparable to heart attack patients

Blood clot risks are high following SARS-CoV-2 infection, not vaccination

New animated video explores how social media affects people with eating disorders

UNSW Sydney scientists discover how tiny anchors help the cells to stay in place

Study highlights need to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S.

Study finds substantial decline in physical, cognitive, or psychological health among older people

Pregnancy complications with COVID-19

MS patients receiving aCD20 treatment mount robust T-cell responses to COVID-19 vaccines

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