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Battle lines are drawn over California deal with Kaiser Permanente

California counties, health insurance plans, community clinics, and a major national health care labor union are lining up against a controversial deal to grant HMO giant Kaiser Permanente a no-bid statewide Medicaid contract as the bill heads for its first legislative hearing Tuesday.

18 Apr 2022

Researchers identify 16 distinct cell populations in a key brain region for substance use disorders

In a work of systematic biology that advances the field, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have identified 16 distinct cell populations in a complex area of the midbrain called the ventral tegmental area, or VTA.

18 Apr 2022

Two strains of TB bacterium attack the lungs in completely different fashion, study finds

Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, according to Rutgers researchers.

18 Apr 2022

New poll reaffirms picky eating as a universal parenting challenge

Kids can be stubborn when it comes to eating the healthy foods on their plate.

18 Apr 2022

Study identifies Etravirine and Dolutegravir as effective entry inhibitors of wild-type and predominant variants of SARS-CoV-2

Researchers identified drugs inhibiting the entry of SARS-CoV-2.

18 Apr 2022

Scientists unravel the complex workings of the circadian rhythm in cyanobacteria

Scientists want to increase their understanding of circadian rhythms, those internal 24-hour biological clock cycles of sleeping and waking that occur in organisms, ranging from humans to plants to fungi to bacteria.

18 Apr 2022

Washington state retools first-in-the-nation long-term care benefit

Patricia Keys, 71 and a stroke survivor, needs help with many everyday activities, such as dressing and bathing. Her daughter Christina, who lives near her mom in Vancouver, Washington, cares for her in the evenings and pays about $3,000 a month for help from other caregivers.

18 Apr 2022

Study finds two doses of mRNA or ChAdOx1 vaccines provide excellent protection against severe outcomes of hospitalization and death

Researchers assessed the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against related hospitalizations and death.

18 Apr 2022

Study predicts that different statins exhibit divergent effects on host response to SARS-CoV-2 infection

A new study explores the possibility that different statins may exhibit different effects within the host and may differ in their outcomes while treating COVID-19 patients.

18 Apr 2022

Monoclonal antibodies from COVID-19 convalescent donors target conserved site

Researchers found six monoclonal antibodies binding to the spike proteins of all human coronaviruses.

18 Apr 2022

Impact of COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign in Israel

Researchers assess the implications of the COVID-19 booster vaccine on the Israeli population.

18 Apr 2022

Manipulating a specific gene from yeast could lead a new approach to combatting drug resistance

A recent study that shows manipulating and deleting a specific gene (AMN1) from yeast could provide a foundation for a new approach to combatting drug resistance when treating microbial infections or cancer.

18 Apr 2022

New insight into lymphoid cell maturity could pave the way for more effective IBD treatments

A research group at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has analyzed how certain immune cells known as innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) develop into mature cells that play a part in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

15 Apr 2022

New chemical reaction creates a faster, simpler way of making tertiary amines for medicines

A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign research team has discovered a way to produce a special class of molecule that could open the door for new drugs to treat currently untreatable diseases.

15 Apr 2022

Study pinpoints the reasons behind racial and ethnic gaps in Medicare’s quality program

For the past 10 years, the Medicare system has tried to improve the quality of health care that millions of older Americans receive, while slowing the growth in costs to the federal budget, by encouraging health care providers to join Accountable Care Organizations.

15 Apr 2022

Scientists investigate how gut bacteria directly control the activity of specific neurons

Gut microbiota by-products circulate in the bloodstream, regulating host physiological processes including immunity, metabolism and brain functions.

15 Apr 2022

Delivery technologies of mRNA and pDNA for advanced therapeutic applications

Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (Center Director: Prof. Kazunori Kataoka) has announced that Prof. Satoshi Uchida (Principal Research Scientist), who is also Associated Professor of the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, published an article review about non-viral messenger RNA (mRNA) and plasmid DNA (pDNA) delivery by addressing the various delivery technologies of mRNA and pDNA, from basic research to therapeutic and clinical application; Pharmaceutics 2022, 14(4), 810.

15 Apr 2022

Durable neutralizing response against Omicron after heterologous vaccine boosting

Researchers assess the impact of homologous and heterologous primary-booster vaccine dose combinations.

15 Apr 2022

A comprehensive rule book for the design of safe and efficient therapeutic cells

Therapies based on engineered immune cells have recently emerged as a promising approach in the treatment of cancer.

15 Apr 2022

Breakthrough finding reveals how male sex hormones contribute to cancer-related sex bias

Patients with cancers stemming from non-reproductive organs, such as bladder and liver cancer, have striking discrepancies in incidence, progression, response to treatment and survival outcomes depending on their sex. In almost all cases, male patients have worse prognoses and outcomes.

15 Apr 2022

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Battle lines are drawn over California deal with Kaiser Permanente

Researchers identify 16 distinct cell populations in a key brain region for substance use disorders

Two strains of TB bacterium attack the lungs in completely different fashion, study finds

New poll reaffirms picky eating as a universal parenting challenge

Study identifies Etravirine and Dolutegravir as effective entry inhibitors of wild-type and predominant variants of SARS-CoV-2

Scientists unravel the complex workings of the circadian rhythm in cyanobacteria

Washington state retools first-in-the-nation long-term care benefit

Study finds two doses of mRNA or ChAdOx1 vaccines provide excellent protection against severe outcomes of hospitalization and death

Study predicts that different statins exhibit divergent effects on host response to SARS-CoV-2 infection

Monoclonal antibodies from COVID-19 convalescent donors target conserved site

Impact of COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign in Israel

Manipulating a specific gene from yeast could lead a new approach to combatting drug resistance

New insight into lymphoid cell maturity could pave the way for more effective IBD treatments

New chemical reaction creates a faster, simpler way of making tertiary amines for medicines

Study pinpoints the reasons behind racial and ethnic gaps in Medicare’s quality program

Scientists investigate how gut bacteria directly control the activity of specific neurons

Delivery technologies of mRNA and pDNA for advanced therapeutic applications

Durable neutralizing response against Omicron after heterologous vaccine boosting

A comprehensive rule book for the design of safe and efficient therapeutic cells

Breakthrough finding reveals how male sex hormones contribute to cancer-related sex bias

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