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Study links chronic sinus inflammation with alterations in brain activity

The millions of people who have chronic sinusitis deal not only with stuffy noses and headaches, they also commonly struggle to focus, and experience depression and other symptoms that implicate the brain's involvement in their illness.

8 Apr 2021

Phase II of Singapore's National Precision Medicine strategy to begin in April 2021

Precision medicine is part of Singapore's Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2025 strategic goal to transform and protect the health of every Singaporean.

7 Apr 2021

Study highlights how women's choice of birth control is affected by out-of-pocket costs

Getting a birth control implant used to cost some women hundreds of dollars, if they were among the nearly half of privately insured Americans covered by a health plan with a high deductible that they were responsible for paying.

7 Apr 2021

Advancing the Diagnosis and Treatment of Ovarian Cancer

In this interview, News-Medical talks to Dr. Marcos Quintela Vasquez about the work he is conducting regarding the diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer in partnership with Porvair Sciences.

From Porvair Sciences Limited 7 Apr 2021

Events of 2020 moved medical students to political activism

Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.

7 Apr 2021

Intermittent auscultation outperforms more modern methods at reducing cesarean sections

Intermittent auscultation, in which the baby’s heartbeat is monitored using a sonic aid or Doppler probe, outperforms more modern methods at reducing the number of emergency caesarean sections in labour, according to a new study led by researchers from the University of Warwick.

7 Apr 2021

Prenatal exposure to phthalates is linked to altered cognitive outcomes in infants

Exposure to phthalates, a class of chemicals widely used in packaging and consumer products, is known to interfere with normal hormone function and development in human and animal studies.

7 Apr 2021

Study reveals new mutations that make cancer resistant to KRAS-targeted therapies

A gene called KRAS is one of the most commonly mutated genes in all human cancers, and targeted drugs that inhibit the protein expressed by mutated KRAS have shown promising results in clinical trials, with potential approvals by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration anticipated later this year.

7 Apr 2021

Expert calls for swift action to avoid chronic health conditions caused by COVID-19

A tsunami of chronic health conditions as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, especially cardiometabolic disease, may produce an enormous wave of death and disability that demands immediate, comprehensive strategies.

7 Apr 2021

New grant to Harvard Medical School is boosting efforts to understand and combat rare cancers

Curing cancer has been the dream of countless doctors and researchers over the decades. Yet some types of cancer, whether because they affect relatively few people or lack influential advocates, receive less attention and funding than others.

7 Apr 2021

UCL scientists use AI to identify three new multiple sclerosis subtypes

Scientists at UCL have used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify three new multiple sclerosis (MS) subtypes. Researchers say the groundbreaking findings will help identify those people more likely to have disease progression and help target treatments more effectively.

6 Apr 2021

World's first human tracheal transplant performed by Mount Sinai surgeons

A team of Mount Sinai surgeons has performed the world's first human tracheal transplant--an achievement that has the potential to save the lives of thousands of patients around the world who have tracheal birth defects, untreatable airway diseases, burns, tumors, or severe tracheal damage from intubation, including those who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 and placed on a ventilator.

6 Apr 2021

Majority of Americans with resolved drug problem report significant personal achievements

Addiction is associated with social exclusion, loss of access to resources, and general disengagement from civic life.

6 Apr 2021

New mini-microscope enables imaging of complex brain functions in freely moving mice

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering and Medical School have developed a unique head-mounted mini-microscope device that allows them to image complex brain functions of freely moving mice in real time over a period of more than 300 days.

5 Apr 2021

New RNA-sequencing method can help detect numerous modified small RNAs

A team led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a new RNA-sequencing method-- "Panoramic RNA Display by Overcoming RNA Modification Aborted Sequencing," or PANDORA-seq -- that can help discover numerous modified small RNAs that were previously undetectable.

5 Apr 2021

Medical School News and Research

Study links chronic sinus inflammation with alterations in brain activity

Phase II of Singapore's National Precision Medicine strategy to begin in April 2021

Study highlights how women's choice of birth control is affected by out-of-pocket costs

Advancing the Diagnosis and Treatment of Ovarian Cancer

Events of 2020 moved medical students to political activism

Intermittent auscultation outperforms more modern methods at reducing cesarean sections

Prenatal exposure to phthalates is linked to altered cognitive outcomes in infants

Study reveals new mutations that make cancer resistant to KRAS-targeted therapies

Expert calls for swift action to avoid chronic health conditions caused by COVID-19

New grant to Harvard Medical School is boosting efforts to understand and combat rare cancers

UCL scientists use AI to identify three new multiple sclerosis subtypes

World's first human tracheal transplant performed by Mount Sinai surgeons

Majority of Americans with resolved drug problem report significant personal achievements

New mini-microscope enables imaging of complex brain functions in freely moving mice

New RNA-sequencing method can help detect numerous modified small RNAs

First-of-its-kind study identifies 13 new Alzheimer’s disease genes

Study identifies three clinical COVID-19 phenotypes

Scientists use a novel two-step method to track receptor proteins

Study: More than 60% of adult e-cigarette users in the U.S want to quit

Research offers new clues about the underlying mechanisms of itch

Industry Focus eBook - Cell & Gene Therapy (1st Edition) 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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