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It’s not just covid: Recall candidates represent markedly different choices on health care

Gov. Gavin Newsom's covid-19 rules have been a lightning rod in California's recall election. But there's a lot more at stake for Californians' health care than mask and vaccine mandates.

10 Sep 2021

ECMO life support is a last resort for covid, and in short supply in South

Hospital discharge day for Phoua Yang was more like a pep rally. On her way rolling out of TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, she teared up as streamers and confetti rained down on her. Nurses chanted her name as they wheeled her out of the hospital for the first time since she arrived in February with covid-19, barely able to breathe.

10 Sep 2021

Breastfeeding women and their babies: the outcomes after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination

Scientists evaluated the effect of vaccination in breastfeeding women and its possible effects in infants in a study involving 180 fully vaccinated, breastfeeding women.

10 Sep 2021

Virus-like nanoparticle vaccine effective against SARS-CoV-2 in animal model

A COVID-19 vaccine, created from a virus-like nanoparticle that displays SARS-CoV-2 spike protein RBDs, effectively protects animal model from infection.

10 Sep 2021

Washington University School of Medicine receives $7 million to investigate how human genome works

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a $7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help lead national efforts to investigate how variations in the human genome sequence affect how the genome functions.

9 Sep 2021

UC San Diego researchers receive $6 million NIH grant to study insulin-producing cells

Sequencing the human genome - a feat accomplished in 2003 - provided the list of ingredients that make up a human being, but not the instructions that explain how those ingredients are used by each cell type to create complex "meals."

9 Sep 2021

New Columbia-Pfizer Clinical Trials Diversity Initiative aims to reduce health disparities

Columbia University Irving Medical Center, its Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Pfizer Inc. have established the Columbia-Pfizer Clinical Trials Diversity Initiative, with the aim of reducing health disparities by increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in clinical trials and enhancing the diversity of clinical researchers.

9 Sep 2021

Enzyme appears to be a major driver of dangerous pregnancy complication

A new study by UT Southwestern scientists indicates that an enzyme called protein phosphatase 2 (PP2A) appears to be a major driver of preeclampsia, a dangerous pregnancy complication characterized by the development of high blood pressure and excess protein in the urine.

9 Sep 2021

Virtual follow-up care more convenient than traditional in-person appointments for surgical patients

Most patients who underwent laparoscopic appendectomy (surgical removal of the appendix) or cholecystectomy (surgical removal of the gallbladder) found virtual follow-up care more convenient than traditional in-person appointments, yet equally as satisfying, according to a study published as an "article in press" on the website of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

9 Sep 2021

New gene-delivering workhorse could make gene therapy safer, more effective for muscle diseases

Genetic muscle diseases lead to progressive muscle wasting and often early death, with few treatment options and no cure.

9 Sep 2021

Physical exercise can improve cancer-induced anemia

Many cancer patients suffer from anemia leaving them fatigued, weak, and an impaired ability to perform physical activity.

9 Sep 2021

Early androgens related to childhood gender nonconformity in boys

In laboratory animals, sex differences in behavior occur because different hormone levels produced by males and females influence patterns of gene expression in the developing brain.

9 Sep 2021

New method facilitates the identification of young people at risk of sexual ill health

A procedure that uses written questions to identify visitors to youth clinics who have experienced or risk experiencing sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancy or sexual violence is receiving high praise from personnel and visitors. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis from Linköping University, Sweden.

9 Sep 2021

Psychological distress continued to increase among U.S. men and women during the pandemic

A new report finds that many men and women in the United States continued to experience psychological distress, depression, and anxiety half a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

9 Sep 2021

Study shows how health insurance coverage changed during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nearly 2.7 million people in the U.S. lost their health insurance over a 12-week period in the spring and summer of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study led by researchers at Duke University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

9 Sep 2021

3D-printed origami technology to aid in the fight against COVID-19

Researchers in Simon Fraser University’s Additive Manufacturing Lab are replicating a distinctive artform—the subtle folding of origami—to create 3D printable technologies to aid in the fight against COVID-19, and help doctors to identify and diagnose various health conditions.

9 Sep 2021

'Cold' tumors can be turned 'hot' with extremely low doses of radiation, study shows

A Ludwig Cancer Research study conducted in both mice and a small group of patients with advanced cancers has shown that so-called “cold” tumors that are nearly devoid of immune cells—and therefore unresponsive to immunotherapy—can be turned “hot” with extremely low doses of radiation and the rational use of existing therapies.

9 Sep 2021

Food science principles help scientists to understand inner workings of cellular compartments

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that food science principles have helped them determine how unusual droplets within cells stay organized and avoid dissolving into the rest of the cell's gelatinous interior.

9 Sep 2021

Eyeglasses for school students help improve academic achievement

Students who received eyeglasses through a school-based program scored higher on reading and math tests, Johns Hopkins researchers from the Wilmer Eye Institute and School of Education found in the largest clinical study of the impact of glasses on education ever conducted in the United States.

9 Sep 2021

Autoimmune antibodies strongly linked to the severity of illness in COVID-19 patients

The presence of special immune system defense molecules, called autoimmune antibodies, has been strongly tied to how poorly people fare when hospitalized with COVID-19, a new study shows.

9 Sep 2021

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It’s not just covid: Recall candidates represent markedly different choices on health care

ECMO life support is a last resort for covid, and in short supply in South

Breastfeeding women and their babies: the outcomes after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination

Virus-like nanoparticle vaccine effective against SARS-CoV-2 in animal model

Washington University School of Medicine receives $7 million to investigate how human genome works

UC San Diego researchers receive $6 million NIH grant to study insulin-producing cells

New Columbia-Pfizer Clinical Trials Diversity Initiative aims to reduce health disparities

Enzyme appears to be a major driver of dangerous pregnancy complication

Virtual follow-up care more convenient than traditional in-person appointments for surgical patients

New gene-delivering workhorse could make gene therapy safer, more effective for muscle diseases

Physical exercise can improve cancer-induced anemia

Early androgens related to childhood gender nonconformity in boys

New method facilitates the identification of young people at risk of sexual ill health

Psychological distress continued to increase among U.S. men and women during the pandemic

Study shows how health insurance coverage changed during the COVID-19 pandemic

3D-printed origami technology to aid in the fight against COVID-19

'Cold' tumors can be turned 'hot' with extremely low doses of radiation, study shows

Food science principles help scientists to understand inner workings of cellular compartments

Eyeglasses for school students help improve academic achievement

Autoimmune antibodies strongly linked to the severity of illness in COVID-19 patients

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