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Scientists generate an atlas of human and mouse white adipocytes

Once considered to be inert, white adipose tissue is now recognized to be dynamic and to play an interactive role in a wide array of biological and metabolic processes.

18 Mar 2022

World Sleep Day: Diagnosing chronic respiratory diseases from within the bedroom

For World Sleep Day 2022, News-Medical speaks to Max Sieghold, Co-Founder and CFO of Sleepiz, about their technology and its ability to diagnose sleep apnea/

18 Mar 2022

New 'Shared Commitments' set out priority actions across the UK to improve healthcare through genomics

The UK government, Welsh and Scottish Governments and Northern Ireland Assembly have today (Friday 18 march) agreed a series of commitments to improve outcomes for patients through better genomic testing and access to clinical trials.

18 Mar 2022

Rapid and cheap test for dysosmia in COVID-19

A new study discusses the potential utility of using paired ampules of n-butanol to screen for COVID-19 and detect those at greater risk for severe illness.

17 Mar 2022

Excessive neuropeptide secretion in the lungs can lead to fluid buildup and poor oxygenation

COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the pulmonary and nervous systems, but there is still much to learn about how they interact. Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine recently explored this relationship in the context of a childhood lung disease, but their findings may also apply to COVID-19 symptoms.

17 Mar 2022

Virtual COPD management solution offers an effective and engaging way to help older adults

Wellinks, a digital health care company offering the first-ever integrated, virtual Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management solution, today announced results from a study that found that older adults with COPD were highly engaged and satisfied with Wellinks.

17 Mar 2022

Hispanic/Latino youth with food insecurity have worse cardiometabolic profiles, study shows

Hispanic/Latino youths with limited access to nutritionally adequate food – and especially those whose parents were foreign-born -- had worse cardiometabolic profiles than their "food secure" counterparts, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

17 Mar 2022

Study finds out-of-pocket spending for health care after COVID-19 hospital stay

Millions of Americans have needed hospitalization for COVID-19 since the pandemic began, including hundreds of thousands in the recent Omicron surge.

17 Mar 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: We may be done with covid, but covid’s not done with us

Logistics expert Jeff Zients, who has headed the White House covid-19 response team since the start of the Biden administration, is stepping down and will be replaced by popular public health expert Dr. Ashish Jha, who will take a leave from his post as dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University.

17 Mar 2022

It was already hard to find Evusheld, a covid prevention therapy. Now it’s even harder.

As immunocompromised people across the country work to get Evusheld, a potentially lifesaving covid therapy, several hundred providers of the injections were removed from a federal dataset on Wednesday night, making the therapy even harder to locate.

17 Mar 2022

Brain-wide association studies need thousands of people to achieve higher reproducibility

As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for doctors and scientists to "see" what's going wrong inside the brains of people with mental illnesses or neurological conditions.

16 Mar 2022

Study highlights the economic burden of excessive sugar consumption in Canada

Imagine if the real cost to society of the food you buy at the grocery store was built right into each product's price. Everything with added sugar would cost a whole lot more, according to University of Alberta researchers in a new study in The Canadian Journal of Public Health.

16 Mar 2022

SLU physician-scientist receives NIH funding for Short Bowel Syndrome research

A Saint Louis University School of Medicine scientist and SLUCare physician has received funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS).

16 Mar 2022

Deploying artificial intelligence to prevent delayed and missed care

Medical imaging is one of the most widely used diagnostic tools in health care with providers ordering dozens of imaging studies for their patients every day.

16 Mar 2022

The Future of Tuberculosis; An Interview with the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

We speak to Dr. Alemnew Dagnew from the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, about their tuberculosis vaccine study and the future of tuberculosis.

16 Mar 2022

Anti-spike IgG dynamics after 2nd BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine dose in Japanese health care workers

Researchers investigate the dynamics of anti-spike IgG levels against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in Japanese healthcare workers.

15 Mar 2022

Croup: A previously unrecognized complication of COVID-19 in young children

The omicron surge has led to a previously unrecognized complication of COVID-19 in young children: croup. In the first peer-reviewed report to date, physicians at Boston Children's Hospital describe 75 children who came to the hospital's emergency department (ED) with croup and COVID-19 from March 1, 2020 through January 15, 2022.

15 Mar 2022

Health Care News and Research

Scientists generate an atlas of human and mouse white adipocytes

World Sleep Day: Diagnosing chronic respiratory diseases from within the bedroom

New 'Shared Commitments' set out priority actions across the UK to improve healthcare through genomics

Rapid and cheap test for dysosmia in COVID-19

Excessive neuropeptide secretion in the lungs can lead to fluid buildup and poor oxygenation

Virtual COPD management solution offers an effective and engaging way to help older adults

Hispanic/Latino youth with food insecurity have worse cardiometabolic profiles, study shows

Study finds out-of-pocket spending for health care after COVID-19 hospital stay

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: We may be done with covid, but covid’s not done with us

It was already hard to find Evusheld, a covid prevention therapy. Now it’s even harder.

Brain-wide association studies need thousands of people to achieve higher reproducibility

Study highlights the economic burden of excessive sugar consumption in Canada

SLU physician-scientist receives NIH funding for Short Bowel Syndrome research

Deploying artificial intelligence to prevent delayed and missed care

The Future of Tuberculosis; An Interview with the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

Anti-spike IgG dynamics after 2nd BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine dose in Japanese health care workers

Croup: A previously unrecognized complication of COVID-19 in young children

Women’s health services yet to recover from COVID-19 disruptions

High childhood BMI may elevate cardiovascular risk markers in twenty-year-olds

Small airways disease is a potential long-lasting effect of COVID-19, study says

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