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UMSOM launches special COVID-19 website for pediatric healthcare providers and practices

The University of Maryland School of Medicine has launched a special COVID-19 website for pediatric healthcare providers and practices, parents, and children.

26 Mar 2020

Targeting specific histone deacetylase may be novel therapeutic strategy for NSCLC

The survival rates for patients with non-small cell lung cancer have improved greatly over the past decade thanks to several new targeted treatment options for patients.

26 Mar 2020

Mount Sinai researchers reveal innovative mechanisms to predict and prevent Crohn's disease

In a series of four studies published today in Gastroenterology, a journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, Mount Sinai inflammatory bowel disease researchers, describe the identification of predictive tools and a new understanding of environmental factors that trigger IBD.

26 Mar 2020

New studies investigate role of COVID-19 in breast milk and pregnancy

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine are launching a pair of studies to answer critical questions regarding the roles COVID-19 may play in breast milk and pregnancy.

26 Mar 2020

A quest to unlock the genetic code of SARS-CoV-2

How the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 made the leap from animals to humans is a puzzle that scientists are trying to solve as humanity comes to grip with the deadly pandemic sweeping the globe.

26 Mar 2020

New technique uses AI to better define the different sections of the brain in newborns

Canadian scientists have developed an innovative new technique that uses artificial intelligence to better define the different sections of the brain in newborns during a magnetic resonance imaging exam.

26 Mar 2020

Study suggests potential therapeutic strategy against diabetes

Maintaining vitamin D receptor levels in pancreatic cells that synthesize and secrete insulin (β cells) could contribute to protecting against the development of diabetes and counteract pancreatic cell damage caused by the progression of the disease.

26 Mar 2020

FDA approves immune-modulating therapy for treatment of multiple sclerosis

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved ozanimod, an immune-modulating therapy invented at Scripps Research, for the treatment of adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.

26 Mar 2020

Experimental heart disease drug may treat chemo-resistant ovarian cancer

Most ovarian cancer starts in fallopian tubes. Then it sloughs from its site of origin and floats around in fluid until finding new sites of attachment. It's not easy for cancer cells to survive away from their moorings.

26 Mar 2020

Frontiers launches Coronavirus Funding Monitor for the research community

Frontiers is dedicating part of its open science platform infrastructure to collect and disseminate information relevant to the research communities battling the COVID-19 pandemic using its Coronavirus Knowledge Hub.

26 Mar 2020

Highly focused radiation may slow disease progression in men with oligometastatic prostate cancer

Highly focused, intense doses of radiation called stereotactic ablative radiation (SABR) may slow progression of disease in a subset of men with hormone-sensitive prostate cancers that have spread to a few separate sites in the body, according to results of a phase II clinical trial of the therapy.

26 Mar 2020

New 'more effective' stem cell transplant method could improve treatment of blood diseases

Researchers at UCL have developed a new way to make blood stem cells present in the umbilical cord 'more transplantable', a finding in mice which could improve the treatment of a wide range of blood diseases in children and adults.

26 Mar 2020

New type of immunotherapy shows promise for future treatment of ovarian cancer

Malignant ovarian cancer is insidious: Known and feared for vague and uncharacteristic symptoms that often mean the disease is discovered so late that on average only four out of six patients are still alive after five years.

26 Mar 2020

Anteater-like animals are the missing link for coronavirus transmission between bats and humans

As scientists scramble to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, two recent studies of the virus' genome reached controversial conclusions: namely, that snakes are intermediate hosts of the new virus, and that a key coronavirus protein shares "uncanny similarities" with an HIV-1 protein.

26 Mar 2020

Dimensionality reduction analysis reveals fine-scale diversity within the Japanese population

Geographically isolated from mainland Eurasia, the island nation of Japan has seen little in the way of population mixing for thousands of years.

26 Mar 2020

Mindfulness may naturally develop with time and life experience, study suggests

People say life gets better with age. Now research suggests this may be because older people have the wisdom and time to use mindfulness as a means to improve wellbeing.

26 Mar 2020

Dutch citizens prepared to give EU a more central role in fighting epidemic

Dutch citizens are prepared to give the European Union a more central role when it comes to fighting an epidemic.

26 Mar 2020

Study shows legal marijuana products too strong for pain relief

Most legal marijuana products supplied to medical dispensaries are stronger than recommended for treatment of chronic pain.

26 Mar 2020

Scientists unravel mystery about how nature can access genetic information in cells

Australian scientists have unraveled part of the mystery about how nature can usefully access genetic information in cells despite it being so tightly packed away.

26 Mar 2020

Murdoch Children's Research Institute to roll-out clinical trial of BCG vaccine against COVID-19

Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has announced its infectious disease researchers are preparing to roll-out a multi-center randomized controlled clinical trial of the BCG vaccine against COVID-19.

26 Mar 2020

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UMSOM launches special COVID-19 website for pediatric healthcare providers and practices

Targeting specific histone deacetylase may be novel therapeutic strategy for NSCLC

Mount Sinai researchers reveal innovative mechanisms to predict and prevent Crohn's disease

New studies investigate role of COVID-19 in breast milk and pregnancy

A quest to unlock the genetic code of SARS-CoV-2

New technique uses AI to better define the different sections of the brain in newborns

Study suggests potential therapeutic strategy against diabetes

FDA approves immune-modulating therapy for treatment of multiple sclerosis

Experimental heart disease drug may treat chemo-resistant ovarian cancer

Frontiers launches Coronavirus Funding Monitor for the research community

Highly focused radiation may slow disease progression in men with oligometastatic prostate cancer

New 'more effective' stem cell transplant method could improve treatment of blood diseases

New type of immunotherapy shows promise for future treatment of ovarian cancer

Anteater-like animals are the missing link for coronavirus transmission between bats and humans

Dimensionality reduction analysis reveals fine-scale diversity within the Japanese population

Mindfulness may naturally develop with time and life experience, study suggests

Dutch citizens prepared to give EU a more central role in fighting epidemic

Study shows legal marijuana products too strong for pain relief

Scientists unravel mystery about how nature can access genetic information in cells

Murdoch Children's Research Institute to roll-out clinical trial of BCG vaccine against COVID-19

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