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Needle-free vaccine patch can protect people from deadly Zika virus

A simple-to-apply, needle-free vaccine patch is being developed to protect people from the potentially deadly mosquito-borne Zika virus.

30 Nov 2023

Study reveals underestimated heat risks in climate change, highlighting challenges for aging population

Study in 'Nature Communications' presents a new model integrating physiological factors to more accurately predict human survivability and livability under heat stress due to climate change.

30 Nov 2023

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump puts Obamacare repeal back on agenda

Former president and current 2024 Republican front-runner Donald Trump is aiming to put a repeal of the Affordable Care Act back on the political agenda, much to the delight of Democrats, who point to the health law's growing popularity.

30 Nov 2023

Traumatic memories represented differently in the brain, study finds

A new analysis of the brain activity of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the first to reveal that traumatic memories are represented in the brain in an entirely different way than sad autobiographical memories.

30 Nov 2023

New approach enhances CAR T-cell therapy for solid tumors

Immunotherapy using modified chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells has greatly improved survival rates for pediatric patients with relapsed and recurrent leukemia.

30 Nov 2023

Canadian researchers aim to reduce chronic inflammation and comorbidities in HIV patients

To mark the occasion of World AIDS Day, find out how Dr. Madeleine Durand and Andrés Finzi are working to reduce chronic inflammation and the risk of comorbidities in people living with HIV.

30 Nov 2023

Balanced IV fluids can reduce death risk for critically ill patients

Results of a new meta-analysis in shows that intravenous fluid (IV) therapy using balanced solutions rather than commonly used saline can reduce the risk of in-hospital death of critically ill patients by four percent.

30 Nov 2023

Novel miRNA-based therapy shows promise for treatment of drug-resistant biliary tract cancer

Biliary tract cancers (BTCs) including cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) and gallbladder cancer (GBC) are becoming more prevalent globally.

30 Nov 2023

BU researcher wins NIH award to quantify long-term impact of nutritional interventions on TB incidence

Pranay Sinha, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received a National Institutes of Health Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01).

30 Nov 2023

An Arm and a Leg: To get health insurance, this couple made a movie

Last fall, Ellen Haun and Dru Johnston were hustling to get their health insurance sorted out for 2023.

30 Nov 2023

FTC chief gears up for a showdown with private equity

A recent Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit accusing one of the nation's largest anesthesiology groups of monopolistic practices that sharply drove up prices is a warning to private equity investors that could temper their big push to snap up physician groups.

30 Nov 2023

The impact of implementing a high sensitivity assay for cardiac troponin I on long term outcomes in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome

Researchers from the United Kingdom evaluated the use of a high-sensitivity assay to measure cardiac troponin I and its impact on myocardial infarction (MI) risk or other long-term outcomes such as death at five years in individuals with suspected acute coronary syndrome.

30 Nov 2023

Routine thyroid hormone treatment for organ donors ineffective and potentially harmful

Doctors managing deceased organ donors routinely treat the donors' bodies with thyroid hormones in a bid to preserve heart function and increase the quantity and quality of hearts and other organs available for transplantation.

29 Nov 2023

Medicare Advantage increasingly popular with seniors — but not hospitals and doctors

A hospital system in Georgia. Two medical groups in San Diego. Another in Louisville, Kentucky, and nearly one-third of Nebraska hospitals.

29 Nov 2023

Research paves way for clinical trials of existing drugs for brain metastasis

The largest review of papers for brain cancer that has spread from the lungs has found abnormalities in the brain cancer and for which licensed drugs could be clinically trialled to find out if they could treat the disease.

29 Nov 2023

New insights into evolution of the “little brain”

The evolution of higher cognitive functions in human beings has so far mostly been linked to the expansion of the neocortex – a region of the brain that is responsible, inter alia, for conscious thought, movement and sensory perception.

29 Nov 2023

Imaging approach provides objective evidence for the involvement of neck muscles in primary headaches

Researchers have identified objective evidence of how the neck muscles are involved in primary headaches, according to a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

29 Nov 2023

AI model accurately predicts breast cancer risk across multiple races

A deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) model that was developed using only mammogram image biomarkers accurately predicted both ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive carcinoma, according to research being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

29 Nov 2023

PlaqueTec recruits first ten patients in BIOPATTERN trial

PlaqueTec, a company identifying endotype-specific biomarkers to advance precision medicine for coronary artery disease (CAD), today announced that it has received the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approval to continue its BIOPATTERN trial following recruitment of the first ten patients with CAD.

From PlaqueTec 29 Nov 2023

Coated textiles could be used as antimicrobial curtains in hospitals

Hospital germs and pathogens are not always transmitted directly from person to person. They can also spread via germ-contaminated surfaces and objects

29 Nov 2023

Hospital News and Research

Needle-free vaccine patch can protect people from deadly Zika virus

Study reveals underestimated heat risks in climate change, highlighting challenges for aging population

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump puts Obamacare repeal back on agenda

Traumatic memories represented differently in the brain, study finds

New approach enhances CAR T-cell therapy for solid tumors

Canadian researchers aim to reduce chronic inflammation and comorbidities in HIV patients

Balanced IV fluids can reduce death risk for critically ill patients

Novel miRNA-based therapy shows promise for treatment of drug-resistant biliary tract cancer

BU researcher wins NIH award to quantify long-term impact of nutritional interventions on TB incidence

An Arm and a Leg: To get health insurance, this couple made a movie

FTC chief gears up for a showdown with private equity

The impact of implementing a high sensitivity assay for cardiac troponin I on long term outcomes in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome

Routine thyroid hormone treatment for organ donors ineffective and potentially harmful

Medicare Advantage increasingly popular with seniors — but not hospitals and doctors

Research paves way for clinical trials of existing drugs for brain metastasis

New insights into evolution of the “little brain”

Imaging approach provides objective evidence for the involvement of neck muscles in primary headaches

AI model accurately predicts breast cancer risk across multiple races

PlaqueTec recruits first ten patients in BIOPATTERN trial

Coated textiles could be used as antimicrobial curtains in hospitals

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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