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Pediatricians urge efforts to offset COVID-19 impacts on children from low-income households

The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the social, educational and health care disparities already plaguing the nearly 40 million Americans the U.S. Census Bureau estimates are living in poverty.

26 May 2020

A key player in hepatitis A virus infection discovered

How hepatitis A virus manages to enter liver cells called hepatocytes and initiate infection had remained a mystery for fifty years until now.

26 May 2020

UVA researchers discover essential key to hearing sensitivity in the inner ear

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is shedding light on the biological architecture that lets us hear – and on a genetic disorder that causes both deafness and blindness.

26 May 2020

UZH researchers develop new X-ray contrast agent for high-resolution vascular imaging

Various diseases in humans and animals - such as tumors, strokes or chronic kidney disease - damage the blood vessels. Capillaries, the smallest blood vessels in the body, are particularly affected.

26 May 2020

Montefiore and Einstein evaluate a new drug combination to fight COVID-19

Montefiore Health System Albert Einstein College of Medicine have begun the next stage of the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT), to evaluate treatment options for people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 infection.

26 May 2020

Researchers discover ear infections in the remains of ancient humans living in Levant

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered evidence of ear infections in the skull remains of humans living in the Levant some 15,000 years ago.

26 May 2020

Novel testing system predicts outcomes in patients with sepsis

More than 1.7 million Americans develop sepsis each year, and more than 270,000 die from it. The condition--which happens when the body has an extreme response to a bacterial or viral infection, causing a chain reaction that can lead to organ failure and death--has few strategies for treatment.

26 May 2020

Dana-Farber nurse-scientists receive more than $1.3 million for two research projects

Nurse-scientists from the Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing and Patient Care Services at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute received more than $1.3 million dollars in funding for two separate research projects.

26 May 2020

New NIH grant will help Pennington Biomedical scientists to study metabolic diseases

A new federal grant will allow young scientists to delve into the mechanisms of emotional eating and preeclampsia and other disorders not considered "classic" metabolic diseases.

26 May 2020

Antimalarial drug shows promise as potential therapy for aggressive brain cancer

Glioblastoma multiforme is an aggressive form of cancer in the brain that is typically fatal. But new findings by VCU Massey Cancer Center and VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine researchers could help increase the effectiveness of the most common current treatments with the addition of lumefantrine, an FDA-approved drug used to treat malaria.

26 May 2020

Biophysicists determine the optimal age of reprogrammed stem cells

Biophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Clinical Research Institute have determined the optimal age of reprogrammed stem cells suitable for restoring heart tissue.

26 May 2020

COVID-like cough sent him to ER — where he got a $3,278 bill

From late March into April, Timothy Regan had severe coughing fits several times a day that often left him out of breath. He had a periodic low-grade fever, too.

26 May 2020

3D model displays arrangement of intrinsic neurons in the rat heart

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a virtual 3D heart, digitally showcasing the heart's unique network of neurons for the first time.

26 May 2020

Study focuses on how older adults manage distress

A team of researchers from Keele University has found that it is uncommon for older adults to consult their GP during times of distress due to a lack of acceptable treatments.

26 May 2020

Study paves way to better understand the pathophysiology of schizophrenia

There is an extremely high probability that individuals with 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome - a rare genetic disorder - will develop schizophrenia together with one of its most common symptoms, auditory hallucinations.

26 May 2020

Methods to move precision medicine from evaluation into practice and policy

Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR - the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the publication of a series of articles focused on methods for moving from the evaluation of precision medicine into practice and policy.

26 May 2020

Rejuvenated fibroblasts could be used in regenerative medicine, stem cell engineering

Fibroblasts are the most common connective tissue cells. They produce the structural framework for animal tissues, synthesize the extracellular matrix and collagen, and play a critical role in wound healing.

26 May 2020

New AI tool could predict risk of lung cancer recurrence

Computer scientists working with pathologists have trained an artificial intelligence tool to determine which patients with lung cancer have a higher risk of their disease coming back after treatment, as part of Cancer Research UK’s landmark TRACERx study.

26 May 2020

RCSI and LEO Pharma team up to investigate the role of blood clotting protein in breast cancer

RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and LEO Pharma have partnered to better understand the role of a blood clotting protein in the spread of breast cancer.

26 May 2020

New project uses SMART-TRIAL to gather data on Iceland's wellbeing during COVID-19 pandemic

A large COVID-19 research project uses SMART-TRIAL to gather data on Iceland's wellbeing during the Coronavirus pandemic

26 May 2020

Medicine News and Research

Pediatricians urge efforts to offset COVID-19 impacts on children from low-income households

A key player in hepatitis A virus infection discovered

UVA researchers discover essential key to hearing sensitivity in the inner ear

UZH researchers develop new X-ray contrast agent for high-resolution vascular imaging

Montefiore and Einstein evaluate a new drug combination to fight COVID-19

Researchers discover ear infections in the remains of ancient humans living in Levant

Novel testing system predicts outcomes in patients with sepsis

Dana-Farber nurse-scientists receive more than $1.3 million for two research projects

New NIH grant will help Pennington Biomedical scientists to study metabolic diseases

Antimalarial drug shows promise as potential therapy for aggressive brain cancer

Biophysicists determine the optimal age of reprogrammed stem cells

COVID-like cough sent him to ER — where he got a $3,278 bill

3D model displays arrangement of intrinsic neurons in the rat heart

Study focuses on how older adults manage distress

Study paves way to better understand the pathophysiology of schizophrenia

Methods to move precision medicine from evaluation into practice and policy

Rejuvenated fibroblasts could be used in regenerative medicine, stem cell engineering

New AI tool could predict risk of lung cancer recurrence

RCSI and LEO Pharma team up to investigate the role of blood clotting protein in breast cancer

New project uses SMART-TRIAL to gather data on Iceland's wellbeing during COVID-19 pandemic

Everything there is to know about biosimilars eBook

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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