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Three-year Indonesia trial produces encouraging results for dengue control

A three-year trial in Indonesia has produced encouraging results that show a significant reduction in the number of dengue cases.

7 Sep 2020

Pooled saliva testing increases COVID-19 testing capacity

Now, a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and published on the preprint server medRxiv in September 2020 shows that pooled saliva samples can save resources and increase testing capacity, making a significant difference in the management of the pandemic.

7 Sep 2020

Multi-level surgical technique gives new hope to sleep apnea patients

A trial of a simple yet effective surgery has led Australian experts to promote it as an option to specialists around the world for managing difficult obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) cases.

4 Sep 2020

Health experts call for compulsory training of obstetric health practitioners amid rising domestic violence

As domestic violence skyrockets amid COVID-19, women's health experts are calling for compulsory training of obstetric health practitioners to ensure they can recognise the signs of coercive control for women in their care.

4 Sep 2020

Research compares T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 and influenza

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow, scientists are focusing on understanding how the host immune system responds to the virus in order to better shape public health responses and develop effective vaccines. A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in September 2020 reports the T cell memory response to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, recombinant nucleocapsid protein, and other pooled peptides derived from convalescent patients.

3 Sep 2020

$6.6 million grant awarded to develop new device for treating mental health disorders

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have been awarded a $6.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop a new medical device that can treat mental health disorders in a way that has never been done before using brain rhythms.

3 Sep 2020

Antibody responses in recovered COVID-19 individuals from India

India has been hit hard by COVID-19, with at least 66,000 deaths and almost 4 million cases. The need to understand the infection, including the various antibody isotypes, and whether neutralizing antibodies and memory B cells are being produced, has driven much research into the way immunity is developing in Indian patients.

3 Sep 2020

A global vaccine is sufficient to combat COVID-19 infection, indicates study

Genetic analysis of sequences from more than 27,000 individuals infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 reveals that the virus has mutated minimally since December 2019, suggesting one vaccine would be sufficient to combat global infections.

2 Sep 2020

SARS-CoV-2-RNA viremia is a robust marker of critical illness in COVID-19

A new study by a large team of Spanish researchers and published on the preprint server medRxiv* in August 2020 reports that the presence of viral RNA in the blood is a useful marker of impending acute disease and can help triage COVID-19 disease patients who will require hospital care.

1 Sep 2020

Yale trial tests new tool to address health disparities in treatment of alcohol use disorders

Yale researchers are completing a first-of-its-kind clinical trial to test the efficacy of an automated bilingual alcohol screening and intervention tool for use in emergency departments (EDs).

1 Sep 2020

Researchers shed light on the development of cognitive flexibility in infants

Cognitive flexibility refers to the ability to readily switch between mental processes in response to external stimuli and different task demands.

31 Aug 2020

$Empagliflozin reduces risk of death in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction$

Empagliflozin reduces risk of death in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction

Empagliflozin reduces the risk of cardiovascular death or hospitalization for heart failure in patients with heart failure and a reduced ejection fraction.

31 Aug 2020

Using SARS-CoV-2 epitope to construct a vaccine

A new study published on the preprint server bioRxiv* in August 2020 reports the use of prediction and advanced simulation techniques to identify a novel T cell epitope on the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that could serve as the basis for a customized vaccine with broad-based efficacy.

30 Aug 2020

Canada announces $10 million core funding to tackle world water crisis

Canada today announced a CDN$10 million extension of core funding through 2025 for the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, a research organization at the forefront of pressing global water challenges.

29 Aug 2020

Natural disasters alone are not enough to prompt local climate policy change

Natural disasters alone are not enough to motivate local communities to engage in climate change mitigation or adaptation, a new study from Oregon State University found.

29 Aug 2020

Bulky benchtops for fingerprinting drugs could be replaced with a tiny photonic chip

As new infectious diseases emerge and spread, one of the best shots against novel pathogens is finding new medicines or vaccines.

28 Aug 2020

Study analyzes link between maternal insecticide use during pregnancy and neonatal jaundice

The data of 61,751 pregnant women, out of approximately 100,000 collected by the Japan Environment and Children's Study analyzed the association between the maternal usage of insecticides and insect repellents during pregnancy and neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.

28 Aug 2020

High extraversion and low neuroticism associated with more physical activity in women

Personality traits help to understand why some people are physically active and others are not. A new study from the Gerontology Research Center and the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, shows that the role of personality may vary depending on how physical activity is measured.

28 Aug 2020

Environmental surface testing at radiation oncology clinic showed no detectable SARS-CoV2

A Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey study shows environmental surface testing at the center's Radiation Oncology Department located within Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state showed no detectable SARS-CoV2 – the virus that causes COVID-19

28 Aug 2020

Long-term brain monitoring technologies can benefit epilepsy patients

Today, the way a physician gets an idea of how many seizures a person with epilepsy has had is through the patient's own record of seizure activity in his day-to-day life.

27 Aug 2020

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Three-year Indonesia trial produces encouraging results for dengue control

Pooled saliva testing increases COVID-19 testing capacity

Multi-level surgical technique gives new hope to sleep apnea patients

Health experts call for compulsory training of obstetric health practitioners amid rising domestic violence

Research compares T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 and influenza

$6.6 million grant awarded to develop new device for treating mental health disorders

Antibody responses in recovered COVID-19 individuals from India

A global vaccine is sufficient to combat COVID-19 infection, indicates study

SARS-CoV-2-RNA viremia is a robust marker of critical illness in COVID-19

Yale trial tests new tool to address health disparities in treatment of alcohol use disorders

Researchers shed light on the development of cognitive flexibility in infants

Empagliflozin reduces risk of death in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction

Using SARS-CoV-2 epitope to construct a vaccine

Canada announces $10 million core funding to tackle world water crisis

Natural disasters alone are not enough to prompt local climate policy change

Bulky benchtops for fingerprinting drugs could be replaced with a tiny photonic chip

Study analyzes link between maternal insecticide use during pregnancy and neonatal jaundice

High extraversion and low neuroticism associated with more physical activity in women

Environmental surface testing at radiation oncology clinic showed no detectable SARS-CoV2

Long-term brain monitoring technologies can benefit epilepsy patients

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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