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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The long road to unwinding Trump health policies

Thursday was "health day" in President Joe Biden's sprint to launch his presidency, and he signed two executive orders addressing health coverage and women's reproductive rights.

28 Jan 2021

Fetal and neonatal therapy combination may lessen the aftereffects of congenital CMV infection

A cross-institutional research group has revealed for the first time in the world that infants with symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection who were treated with a combination of immunoglobulin fetal therapy and neonatal therapy with antiviral drugs were less likely to experience the severe aftereffects associated with the infection than those who only received the neonatal therapy.

28 Jan 2021

NUS researchers discover a mechanism controlling the replenishment of blood cells

Blood is vital to life, and a healthy body replenishes worn-out blood cells with new ones throughout one's lifetime. If something goes wrong with this process, serious illness will result.

28 Jan 2021

Researchers develop a simple and efficient way to generate hemogenic endothelial cells

Pioneering research into how our bodies manufacture the cells that make blood has moved us closer to regrowing tissues and organs. The findings also may let doctors grow the cells for transplantation into people to battle cancer, blood disorders and autoimmune diseases.

28 Jan 2021

4 vital health issues — not tied to Covid — that Congress addressed in massive spending bill

Late last month, before President Joe Biden took office and proposed his pandemic relief plan, Congress passed a nearly 5,600-page legislative package that provided some pandemic relief along with its more general allocations to fund the government in 2021.

28 Jan 2021

Can the US keep covid variants in check? Here’s what it takes

The covid-19 variants that have emerged in the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Africa and now Southern California are eliciting two notably distinct responses from U.S. public health officials.

28 Jan 2021

Huge gaps in vaccine data make it next to impossible to know who got the shots

As they rush to vaccinate millions of Americans, health officials are struggling to collect critically important information — such as race, ethnicity and occupation — of every person they jab.

28 Jan 2021

Moderna vaccine shows robust suppression of SARS-CoV-2 infection in animal model

Researchers have demonstrated that the prime or prime-boost vaccination of Moderna vaccine in hamsters induced robust neutralizing antibodies, ameliorated weight loss, and suppressed SARS-CoV-2 replication in the airways.

28 Jan 2021

Scientist wins 2021 Pioneer in Basic Science Award for breakthrough research on the inner ear

When Andrew Griffith, MD, PhD, looks at the inner ear, he sees what he describes as "an engineering marvel."

28 Jan 2021

People who take opioid for chronic pain may find it hard to access new primary care clinics

People who take opioid medications for chronic pain may have a hard time finding a new primary care clinic that will take them on as a patient if they need one, according to a new "secret shopper" study of hundreds of clinics in states across the country.

28 Jan 2021

New results challenge the current understanding of medulloblastoma

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and their colleagues have published a detailed account of SJMB03, a clinical trial for pediatric patients with medulloblastoma.

28 Jan 2021

Plants depend on LEAFY protein that enables cells to change their fate

Cells don't express all the genes they contain all the time. The portion of our genome that encodes eye color, for example, doesn't need to be turned on in liver cells. In plants, genes encoding the structure of a flower can be turned off in cells that will form a leaf.

28 Jan 2021

Viral ExoN regulates the rate of recombination in SARS-CoV-2

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston have discovered what may be the Achilles' heel of the coronavirus, a finding that may help close the door on COVID-19 and possibly head off future pandemics.

28 Jan 2021

Study offers a new approach to control post-surgery pain

As surgeons balance the need to control their patients' post-surgery pain with the risk that a routine operation could become the gateway to long-term opioid use or addiction, a new study shows the power of an approach that takes a middle way.

28 Jan 2021

SMART protocol improves cognitive function, psychological well-being in laboratory participants

Many people believe that they can't change their brains, or that their brain health will inevitably decline as they age.

28 Jan 2021

Innovative breakthrough promises to diagnose DNA rearrangement mutations

Doctors are increasingly using genetic signatures to diagnose diseases and determine the best course of care, but using DNA sequencing and other techniques to detect genomic rearrangements remains costly or limited in capabilities.

28 Jan 2021

American scientists receive the 2021 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize

FRANKFURT am MAIN. Two American scientists, Bonnie L. Bassler and Michael R. Silverman, receive the 2021 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, which is endowed with 120,000 €.

28 Jan 2021

Tiny brain implant can be wirelessly recharged to control brain circuits

A group of KAIST researchers and collaborators have engineered a tiny brain implant that can be wirelessly recharged from outside the body to control brain circuits for long periods of time without battery replacement.

28 Jan 2021

Ebola survivors experienced a resurgence in antibody levels after recovery

A high proportion of survivors of Ebola experienced a resurgence in antibody levels nearly a year after recovery, a new University of Liverpool study has found.

27 Jan 2021

Genetically engineered cartilage delivers anti-inflammatory drug in response to knee activity

Working to develop new treatments for osteoarthritis, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have genetically engineered cartilage to deliver an anti-inflammatory drug in response to activity similar to the bending of a knee or other motions that put stress on joints.

27 Jan 2021

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The long road to unwinding Trump health policies

Fetal and neonatal therapy combination may lessen the aftereffects of congenital CMV infection

NUS researchers discover a mechanism controlling the replenishment of blood cells

Researchers develop a simple and efficient way to generate hemogenic endothelial cells

4 vital health issues — not tied to Covid — that Congress addressed in massive spending bill

Can the US keep covid variants in check? Here’s what it takes

Huge gaps in vaccine data make it next to impossible to know who got the shots

Moderna vaccine shows robust suppression of SARS-CoV-2 infection in animal model

Scientist wins 2021 Pioneer in Basic Science Award for breakthrough research on the inner ear

People who take opioid for chronic pain may find it hard to access new primary care clinics

New results challenge the current understanding of medulloblastoma

Plants depend on LEAFY protein that enables cells to change their fate

Viral ExoN regulates the rate of recombination in SARS-CoV-2

Study offers a new approach to control post-surgery pain

SMART protocol improves cognitive function, psychological well-being in laboratory participants

Innovative breakthrough promises to diagnose DNA rearrangement mutations

American scientists receive the 2021 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize

Tiny brain implant can be wirelessly recharged to control brain circuits

Ebola survivors experienced a resurgence in antibody levels after recovery

Genetically engineered cartilage delivers anti-inflammatory drug in response to knee activity

Everything there is to know about biosimilars eBook

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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