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Study explores the relationship between cytokines in saliva and COVID-19 severity

Penn State College of Medicine researchers are involved in an ongoing study looking at the relationship between proteins called cytokines in saliva and COVID-19 infection to help predict the severity of infection.

8 Oct 2021

Wyss Center to lead a collaborative project aimed at improving brain cancer treatment

The Wyss Center announced today that it will lead a collaborative project, as part of Wellcome Leap's Delta Tissue Program, to improve understanding of the brain cancer glioblastoma (GBM) and help develop more effective therapies.

8 Oct 2021

Mental health disorders in adolescents linked to long-term exclusion from education, labor market

Adolescents who had received a mental health disorder diagnosis were often excluded from the labor market and education as young adults.

8 Oct 2021

NIH grant to benefit researcher's effort in developing a new method for detecting breast cancer

Electrical engineering professor Magda El-Shenawee's effort to develop a more accurate and less-invasive method for detecting breast cancer will benefit from a $424,545 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

8 Oct 2021

New Maternal and Child Health Research Institute launched to improve national health in Singapore

The SingHealth Duke-NUS Maternal and Child Health Research Institute was launched at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) today by Masagos Zulkifli, Singapore's Minister for Social and Family Development and Second Minister for Health.

8 Oct 2021

Study aims to find ways of identifying children at risk for severe COVID-19

An ongoing study is looking at the relationship between cytokines in saliva and COVID-19 infection to help predict the severity of infection.

8 Oct 2021

Characterization of circulating neutrophils from hospitalized COVID-19 patients

A new preprint deals with the characterization of neutrophil phenotypes in an attempt to provide biomarkers that can predict severe disease in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

8 Oct 2021

Organ centers to transplant patients: Get a covid shot or move down on waitlist

A Colorado kidney transplant candidate who was bumped to inactive status for failing to get a covid-19 vaccine has become the most public example of an argument roiling the nation's more than 250 organ transplant centers.

8 Oct 2021

NY reaches agreement with DOJ over vaccine access for blind people

Five New York state and local government agencies agreed to fix covid-19 vaccine websites to make them accessible for blind users following a Department of Justice investigation spurred by a KHN story.

8 Oct 2021

Covid immunity through infection or vaccination: Are they equal?

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a University of California-Irvine psychiatry professor, felt he didn't need to be vaccinated against covid because he'd fallen ill with the disease in July 2020.

8 Oct 2021

Keeping up Covid-levels of hygiene could help combat deadly antimicrobial resistance

Keeping up Covid-levels of hygiene awareness long-term could help tackle the spread of deadly antimicrobial resistance, according to new research from the University of West London (UWL) and Royal Holloway University of London.

8 Oct 2021

Antibiotics alone cannot prevent stunted growth in children, study finds

Antibiotics alone likely cannot overcome the complex factors that cause stunted growth and perpetuate the cycle of poverty in the developing world, new research suggests.

8 Oct 2021

Adapting biological research and development to COVID-19

In this interview, News-Medical talks to Dr Yuning Chen, about the work he does with Sino Biological and how they have adapted their research & development to the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Sino Biological Inc. 8 Oct 2021

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy successfully completes the Newborn Screening Pilot project

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), a nonprofit organization leading the fight to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne), announced that the organization's Newborn Screening Pilot has successfully reached its completion, screening more than 36,000 babies born in New York State over the last two years.

8 Oct 2021

Referential alarm calling elicits future vigilance in brood parasite hosts

Yellow warblers are hosts to brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds, which rely on other species to raise their offspring. Warblers use referential "seet" calls to warn female warblers specifically of the brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds that may try to lay eggs in their nests.

8 Oct 2021

Stringent lockdown measures during early pandemic led to dramatic drop in vaccinations

Stringent lockdown measures imposed in the spring of 2020 led to a dramatic drop in vaccinations among both children and adults, according to a new study led by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

8 Oct 2021

New approach to guided nerve repair by using gingiva-derived mesenchymal stem cells

A new approach to repairing peripheral nerves marries the regenerating power of gingiva-derived mesenchymal stem cells with a biological scaffold to enable the functional recovery of nerves following a facial injury, according to a study by a cross-disciplinary team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine.

8 Oct 2021

Research examines the impact of managers' active listening on employees' sense of job insecurity

Between the financial disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the pervasive lack of stability throughout a rapidly shifting global economy, many workers will face job insecurity at some point in their careers.

8 Oct 2021

Removing high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions reduces chances of progression to anal cancer

In a randomized clinical trial with 4,446 participants, known as the Anal Cancer/HSIL Outcomes Research (ANCHOR) study, researchers found that by removing high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), chances of progression to anal cancer were significantly reduced.

8 Oct 2021

Scientists study immune response to COVID-19 in patients with different levels of disease severity

Researchers from Skoltech, U.S. companies VirIntel and Argentys Informatics, and two Russian Academy of Sciences institutes have studied the immune response to COVID-19 in patients with different levels of disease severity.

8 Oct 2021

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Study explores the relationship between cytokines in saliva and COVID-19 severity

Wyss Center to lead a collaborative project aimed at improving brain cancer treatment

Mental health disorders in adolescents linked to long-term exclusion from education, labor market

NIH grant to benefit researcher's effort in developing a new method for detecting breast cancer

New Maternal and Child Health Research Institute launched to improve national health in Singapore

Study aims to find ways of identifying children at risk for severe COVID-19

Characterization of circulating neutrophils from hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Organ centers to transplant patients: Get a covid shot or move down on waitlist

NY reaches agreement with DOJ over vaccine access for blind people

Covid immunity through infection or vaccination: Are they equal?

Keeping up Covid-levels of hygiene could help combat deadly antimicrobial resistance

Antibiotics alone cannot prevent stunted growth in children, study finds

Adapting biological research and development to COVID-19

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy successfully completes the Newborn Screening Pilot project

Referential alarm calling elicits future vigilance in brood parasite hosts

Stringent lockdown measures during early pandemic led to dramatic drop in vaccinations

New approach to guided nerve repair by using gingiva-derived mesenchymal stem cells

Research examines the impact of managers' active listening on employees' sense of job insecurity

Removing high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions reduces chances of progression to anal cancer

Scientists study immune response to COVID-19 in patients with different levels of disease severity

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