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Survey provides baseline assessment of climate-health education among health professions institutions

An international survey of Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) membership found that the majority of members--health professions schools and programs, including medical, nursing, and public health--offer learning opportunities related to the health impacts of climate change, yet many also encountered challenges in instituting or developing curricula.

29 May 2020

Johns Hopkins team develops new method to maintain sufficient supplies of kidney dialysis fluid

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the manufacturing and supply chains for many products.

28 May 2020

Some ivory towers are ideal for a pandemic. Most aren’t.

Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, is open for business this fall — but to get there, you really have to want it. Tucked amid verdant hills 23 miles east of San Francisco, accessible by a single road and a single entrance, the small, private Roman Catholic school receives almost no visitors by accident.

28 May 2020

Thermo Fisher Scientific acknowledges the winners of 2020 TMT Research Grant Award

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recognizes the winners of the 2020 Thermo Scientific Tandem Mass Tag Research Award.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 28 May 2020

New models use computer vision and AI to identify COVID-19 in X-rays

Students at Cranfield University have designed computer models that can identify COVID-19 in X-rays.

27 May 2020

Scientists discover two anti-inflammatory drugs that inhibit COVID-19 infection

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its rapid spread, the scientific community has been working on developing an effective treatment for the virus responsible for the disease.

27 May 2020

New book series brings updated reviews on diabetes and obesity

Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research - Diabetes and Obesity is a book series that brings updated reviews to readers interested in advances in the development of pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of two metabolic diseases - diabetes and obesity.

27 May 2020

COVID-19 in the UK: Military planning and school re-openings

The global COVID-19 pandemic has hit the United Kingdom hard. Collectively England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland now have the highest death toll in Europe, surpassing that of Spain, Italy, and France. The number of reported daily cases and deaths is still significant, as is the load on the healthcare system. As of now, the illness has affected almost 266,000 people in the UK, with over 37,000 deaths so far.

27 May 2020

Study shows high prevalence of vaping in U.S. schools

Vaping is most heavily concentrated in U.S. schools with a higher proportion of white students, schools in the South and West, and schools where more students smoke cigarettes, a new University of Michigan study shows.

26 May 2020

Pediatricians urge efforts to offset COVID-19 impacts on children from low-income households

The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the social, educational and health care disparities already plaguing the nearly 40 million Americans the U.S. Census Bureau estimates are living in poverty.

26 May 2020

Internet-delivered treatment to help young people tackle worry and overthinking

An online treatment proven to prevent anxiety and depression in young people is set to become available to the NHS and other mental health services worldwide.

22 May 2020

Researchers collaboratively evaluate mask effectiveness to prevent coronavirus pandemic

In the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, masks were in such short supply they were nearly impossible to find. As a result, people began creating substitute masks out of anything possible - scarves, repurposed old T-shirts, even vacuum bags.

21 May 2020

Lattice light-sheet microscopy could help in drug and vaccine development

From testing drugs to developing vaccines, the close study of the immune system is key to improving real-world health outcomes. T-cells are integral to this research, as these white blood cells help tailor the body's immune response to specific pathogens.

21 May 2020

MIT researchers describe new methods for accelerating drug approvals during pandemics

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a pair of studies in a COVID-19 special issue of the Harvard Data Science Review, freely available via open access, describing new methods for accelerating drug approvals during pandemics and for providing more accurate measures of the probabilities of success for clinical trials of vaccines and other anti-infective therapies.

20 May 2020

Doctoral candidate receives NIH fellowship to study how adenovirus affects heart function

A dose of adenovirus hits most people like a common cold - a cough, a fever, maybe a sore throat. But for an unfortunate few, the usually benign bug hacks the heart's cellular electrical communication system and sometimes proves fatal.

20 May 2020

Current antibody tests are good enough to inform decisions about public health, say experts

While it's too soon to use COVID-19 antibody testing to issue "immunity passports", antibody tests that are available today are good enough to inform decisions about public health and relaxing social distancing interventions, says an international group of infectious disease and public health experts in Science Immunology today.

20 May 2020

New mathematical model to study the behavior of the human heart

Having now reached its third year, Project "iHEART" of Politecnico di Milano, winner of an ERC Advanced Grant of euro 2,350,000, has set itself the ambitious goal of creating a complete mathematical model to study the behavior of the human heart and of its pathologies, a sort of "virtual microscope."

20 May 2020

Students News and Research

Survey provides baseline assessment of climate-health education among health professions institutions

Johns Hopkins team develops new method to maintain sufficient supplies of kidney dialysis fluid

Some ivory towers are ideal for a pandemic. Most aren’t.

Thermo Fisher Scientific acknowledges the winners of 2020 TMT Research Grant Award

New models use computer vision and AI to identify COVID-19 in X-rays

Scientists discover two anti-inflammatory drugs that inhibit COVID-19 infection

New book series brings updated reviews on diabetes and obesity

COVID-19 in the UK: Military planning and school re-openings

Study shows high prevalence of vaping in U.S. schools

Pediatricians urge efforts to offset COVID-19 impacts on children from low-income households

Internet-delivered treatment to help young people tackle worry and overthinking

Researchers collaboratively evaluate mask effectiveness to prevent coronavirus pandemic

Lattice light-sheet microscopy could help in drug and vaccine development

MIT researchers describe new methods for accelerating drug approvals during pandemics

Doctoral candidate receives NIH fellowship to study how adenovirus affects heart function

Current antibody tests are good enough to inform decisions about public health, say experts

New mathematical model to study the behavior of the human heart

Researchers describe new methods to speed up drug approvals during pandemics

COVID-19 restrictions may have unintended consequences for young eyes

Binge drinking causes' drunkorexia in young women

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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