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‘An Arm and a Leg’: For your next health insurance fight, an exercise in financial self-defense

A listener asked: 'How do I remain cool when calling insurance companies?" So we called veteran self-defense teacher Lauren Taylor for advice. She leads Defend Yourself, an organization that works to empower people against violence and abuse.

16 Nov 2020

New procedure offers lasting pain relief for patients with osteoarthritis

A novel outpatient procedure offers lasting pain relief for patients suffering from moderate to severe arthritis in their hip and shoulder joints, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

16 Nov 2020

Red states’ case against ACA hinges on whether they were actually harmed by the lawc

Attorneys for GOP-controlled states seeking to kill the Affordable Care Act told the Supreme Court last week that at least some of the 12 million people who newly enrolled in Medicaid signed up only because of the law's requirement that people have insurance coverage — although a tax penalty no longer exists.

16 Nov 2020

Long-term care workers, grieving and under siege, brace for COVID’s next round

In the middle of the night, Stefania Silvestri lies in bed remembering her elderly patients' cries.

16 Nov 2020

Homeless shelters grapple with COVID safety as cold creeps in

Ben Barnes has slept in abandoned buildings, hallways and alleys. For the past year or so, he's been staying at the city's largest homeless shelter, Pacific Garden Mission, in the shadows of the famous skyline.

16 Nov 2020

Consumption of teff grain boosts the composition, function of stomach microbiome

The seeds of a teff plant - which look similar to wheat - are tiny in stature, but they pack a nutritional wallop.

16 Nov 2020

New research shows excess egg consumption can increase risk of diabetes

Scrambled, poached or boiled, eggs are a popular breakfast food the world over. Yet the health benefits of the humble egg might not be all they're cracked up to be as new research from the University of South Australia shows that excess egg consumption can increase your risk of diabetes.

16 Nov 2020

Study sheds new light on the immune system response to COVID-19

A team of immunology experts from research organizations in Belgium and the UK has come together to apply their pioneering research methods to put individuals' COVID-19 responses under the microscope.

16 Nov 2020

Professional drivers regularly exposed to hazardous levels of diesel emissions, study finds

While taxi drivers wearing face masks have become a common sight in our cities, new research shows there’s a longer-standing threat to the health of professional drivers than coronavirus.

16 Nov 2020

New project aims to improve the reporting time of missing persons with dementia

QUT researchers are calling on people all over Australia to contribute ideas to a new project that aims to get more people with dementia home safely if they go missing.

16 Nov 2020

Antiviral immune response is suppressed in COVID-19 patients compared to flu patients

Rather than life-threatening hyperinflammation, most adults with moderate-to-severe COVID-19 have a suppressed viral immune response when compared to adults with another viral respiratory infection, influenza. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis led research that suggests most COVID-19 patients are not candidates for treatment with steroids such as dexamethasone.

16 Nov 2020

Study: High-dose blood thinners have no additional benefit in COVID-19 patients

While COVID-19 infected patients should be treated with standard anticoagulation therapies, such as blood thinning medication, a new study by researchers at the George Washington University (GW) shows that anticoagulating patients at higher doses, without traditional medical indications to do so, may be ineffective and even harmful.

16 Nov 2020

Exposure to low-level blasts affects the brains of military and law-enforcement personnel

Military and law-enforcement personnel repeatedly exposed to low-level blasts have significant brain changes – including an increased level of brain injury and inflammation – compared with a control group, a new study has found.

16 Nov 2020

Baricitinib drug can reduce mortality in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19

The rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib can block viral entry and reduce mortality in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19, according to translational research by an international team coordinated by researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

16 Nov 2020

A-LabInsider introduces innovative app to boost biotech businesses

A-LabInsider has created an application that lists all academic life science labs in Europe with an intelligence to filter through them to make it easier for small and medium biotech companies to discover labs and do business with them.

16 Nov 2020

Global health leaders discuss the urgent funding needs of ACT Accelerator

Heads of state, global health leaders, scientists, and the private sector have come together at the Paris Peace Forum this week to discuss how to meet the urgent funding needs of the ACT Accelerator.

16 Nov 2020

New drug reduces LDL cholesterol in patients with severe hypercholesterolemia

The investigational drug evinacumab reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol--the so-called "bad" cholesterol--by 50 percent in patients with severe hypercholesterolemia whose condition is resistant to standard treatments, a phase 2 study from the Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai and other global academic sites has found.

16 Nov 2020

Study confirms link between gut microbiota and Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia. Still incurable, it directly affects nearly one million people in Europe, and indirectly millions of family members as well as society as a whole.

16 Nov 2020

Tomocube’s HT-2 microscope quantifies therapeutic effects of targeted nanodrugs against atherosclerosis

Treatment of Atherosclerosis, the disease responsible for approximately half of all deaths in westernized societies, is a step closer following correlative studies using Tomocube’s HT-2 microscope.

From Tomocube Inc. 16 Nov 2020

Study reveals 3D structure of key phage component in atomic resolution

Given that phages are able to destroy bacteria, they are of particular interest to science. Basic researchers from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) in Berlin are especially interested in the tube used by phages to implant their DNA into bacteria.

16 Nov 2020

Research News and Research

‘An Arm and a Leg’: For your next health insurance fight, an exercise in financial self-defense

New procedure offers lasting pain relief for patients with osteoarthritis

Red states’ case against ACA hinges on whether they were actually harmed by the lawc

Long-term care workers, grieving and under siege, brace for COVID’s next round

Homeless shelters grapple with COVID safety as cold creeps in

Consumption of teff grain boosts the composition, function of stomach microbiome

New research shows excess egg consumption can increase risk of diabetes

Study sheds new light on the immune system response to COVID-19

Professional drivers regularly exposed to hazardous levels of diesel emissions, study finds

New project aims to improve the reporting time of missing persons with dementia

Antiviral immune response is suppressed in COVID-19 patients compared to flu patients

Study: High-dose blood thinners have no additional benefit in COVID-19 patients

Exposure to low-level blasts affects the brains of military and law-enforcement personnel

Baricitinib drug can reduce mortality in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19

A-LabInsider introduces innovative app to boost biotech businesses

Global health leaders discuss the urgent funding needs of ACT Accelerator

New drug reduces LDL cholesterol in patients with severe hypercholesterolemia

Study confirms link between gut microbiota and Alzheimer's disease

Tomocube’s HT-2 microscope quantifies therapeutic effects of targeted nanodrugs against atherosclerosis

Study reveals 3D structure of key phage component in atomic resolution

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