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Low-dose aspirin linked to lower risk of hepatocellular carcinoma and liver-related mortality

Among adults at high risk of liver cancer, those who took low-dose aspirin were less likely to develop the disease or to die from liver-related causes.

12 Mar 2020

No evidence of a link between surgery with anesthesia and Alzheimer's disease

Older adults who have surgery with general anesthesia may experience a modest acceleration of cognitive decline, even years later. But there's no evidence of a link to Alzheimer's disease, according to new research from Mayo Clinic.

12 Mar 2020

Robots and AI deployed to fight against coronavirus

Robots and artificial intelligence are being deployed across the globe in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

12 Mar 2020

New evidence-based guidelines define safe levels of exposure to high-frequency EMFs

A set of updated, evidence-based guidelines defining safe levels of exposure to high-frequency electromagnetic fields has been published in Health Physics, official journal of the Health Physics Society.

11 Mar 2020

Weight gain could lower woman’s chances of getting breast cancer before menopause

Gaining weight from early adulthood is linked to a lower risk of breast cancer before the menopause, a major global study of more than 600,000 women has found.

11 Mar 2020

Postmenopausal breast cancer and the benefit of genetic testing

A new study shows that genetic mutations could be detected in one in 40 women diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 65 years. The study from Stanford researchers, titled "Prevalence of Pathogenic Variants in Cancer Susceptibility Genes Among Women With Postmenopausal Breast Cancer," was published as a research letter 10th March in the journal JAMA.

10 Mar 2020

Patients using copper IUDs have lower cervical cancer risk compared to LNG-IUS users

Patients who used copper intrauterine devices (Cu IUD) were found to have a lower risk of high-grade cervical neoplasms (cervical cancer) compared to users of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS), according to a Columbia study recently published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

10 Mar 2020

PrEP drug levels found to lower among pregnant African adolescent girls and young women

Among African adolescent girls and young women who took HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) daily, levels of the PrEP drug tenofovir were more than 30% lower in those who were pregnant than in those who had recently given birth.

9 Mar 2020

Paid maternity leave associated with mental and physical health benefits for mothers, children

Paid maternity leave has major mental and physical health benefits for mothers and children - including reduced rates of postpartum depression and infant mortality, according to a report in the March/April issue of Harvard Review of Psychiatry.

9 Mar 2020

Coronavirus spreads even without symptoms and how Hangzhou province contained virus spread

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is rapidly spreading across the globe, and containment measures have been implemented at many of the hotspots for the disease. Though isolation and quarantine measures are considered the best way to contain the virus, one new study suggests it might not be as effective as hoped.

9 Mar 2020

New discovery could lead to better strategies for preventing breast cancer metastasis

New discovery in breast cancer could lead to better strategies for preventing the spread of cancer cells to other organs in the body, effectively reducing mortality in breast cancer patients.

8 Mar 2020

A joint effort to confront the challenges of rising antimicrobial resistance in Asia

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Technical University of Denmark's (DTU) National Food Institute announced today a joint effort to strengthen external quality assurance programs for diagnostic laboratories in Asia to confront the challenges of rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the region.

6 Mar 2020

Best practices shown to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19

In a new study published on March 5th, 2020, in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, researchers claim that the meticulous application of best practices for infection control does protect healthcare workers from the COVID-19 illness.

5 Mar 2020

Study: Whites consume more cigarettes and are more nicotine dependent than Native Americans

Multiple past studies have reported that, compared to whites, Native Americans have relatively high cigarette use, and this has contributed to speculation that Native Americans might be inherently prone to such use.

5 Mar 2020

Bioscientists develop coinfection model to predict multipathogen epidemics

Diseases often pile on, coinfecting people, animals and other organisms that are already fighting an infection.

5 Mar 2020

Coronavirus is mutating with a second strain identified by scientists

The coronavirus is mutating as scientists identified a second strain, which is more aggressive and contagious.

5 Mar 2020

City Of Hope builds cloud-based data commons platform for observational study

A $12 million federal grant enabled City of Hope and collaborators to deploy a novel cloud-computing platform, making an immense amount of data from a historic 25-year study more accessible and user-friendly.

5 Mar 2020

Study highlights the persistence of gender pay gap in an anonymous online labor market

The U.S. is witnessing a dramatic rise in nontraditional 'gig economy' labor markets where workers are hired for single projects often on a short-term basis.

5 Mar 2020

New coronavirus app combined with machine intelligence to enable at-home risk assessment

A coronavirus app coupled with machine intelligence will soon enable an individual to get an at-home risk assessment based on how they feel and where they've been in about a minute, and direct those deemed at risk to the nearest definitive testing facility, investigators say.

5 Mar 2020

New technique helps study peptide-receptor interactions on the cell surface

In the past, biologically-active peptides - small proteins like neurotoxins and hormones that act on cell receptors to alter physiology - were purified from native sources like venoms and then panels of variants were produced in bacteria, or synthesized, to study the structural basis for receptor interaction.

5 Mar 2020

Epidemiology News and Research

Low-dose aspirin linked to lower risk of hepatocellular carcinoma and liver-related mortality

No evidence of a link between surgery with anesthesia and Alzheimer's disease

Robots and AI deployed to fight against coronavirus

New evidence-based guidelines define safe levels of exposure to high-frequency EMFs

Weight gain could lower woman’s chances of getting breast cancer before menopause

Postmenopausal breast cancer and the benefit of genetic testing

Patients using copper IUDs have lower cervical cancer risk compared to LNG-IUS users

PrEP drug levels found to lower among pregnant African adolescent girls and young women

Paid maternity leave associated with mental and physical health benefits for mothers, children

Coronavirus spreads even without symptoms and how Hangzhou province contained virus spread

New discovery could lead to better strategies for preventing breast cancer metastasis

A joint effort to confront the challenges of rising antimicrobial resistance in Asia

Best practices shown to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19

Study: Whites consume more cigarettes and are more nicotine dependent than Native Americans

Bioscientists develop coinfection model to predict multipathogen epidemics

Coronavirus is mutating with a second strain identified by scientists

City Of Hope builds cloud-based data commons platform for observational study

Study highlights the persistence of gender pay gap in an anonymous online labor market

New coronavirus app combined with machine intelligence to enable at-home risk assessment

New technique helps study peptide-receptor interactions on the cell surface

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