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Researchers use electricity to design tool that may help create pharmaceutical compounds

What do gunpowder, penicillin and Teflon all have in common? They were inventions that took the world by storm, but they were all created by complete accident.

4 May 2022

Children without diapers do not get quality sleep, study says

Children whose parents cannot afford diapers do not get quality sleep, according to a study by the Rutgers School of Nursing.

3 May 2022

How a COVID support team mitigated SARS-CoV-2 transmission within a university community

Researchers demonstrated how a campus coronavirus disease support team [CCST] efficiently mitigated potential COVID 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks within the school of public health (SPH) of the mid-Atlantic university in the United States (US).

3 May 2022

COVID-19-related restrictions impact women’s access to water in Pacific Islands

COVID-19-related restrictions have further exposed inequalities in people's access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in the Pacific Island countries especially among women, experts say.

3 May 2022

Understanding dysphagia symptoms after spine surgery can help improve patients' quality of life

Difficulty swallowing is one of the most common complications of anterior cervical spine surgery (ACSS).

3 May 2022

New WHO report recommends interventions and policy options to tackle obesity in Europe

The new WHO European Regional Obesity Report 2022, published on 3 May by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, reveals that overweight and obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions across the Region and are still escalating, with none of the 53 Member States of the Region currently on track to meet the WHO Global Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) target of halting the rise of obesity by 2025.

3 May 2022

Study explores which occupations had the greatest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and how relative differences varied over the pandemic

Researchers investigated occupations at the highest risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

3 May 2022

New insights on the mechanisms of transmission of bacterial pathogen that causes listeriosis

Listeriosis is a zoonotic disease of food origin that can cause, both in the human species and in animals, symptoms of gastroenteritis, meningitis, bacteremia and miscarriages.

2 May 2022

Combining two cancer drugs can be effective in treating specific type of colorectal cancer, study shows

Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School Medicine have found that combining two cancer drugs can be effective in treating a specific type of colorectal cancer, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.

2 May 2022

British children's sugar intake exceeds current public health recommendations

A new study, being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4-7 May), suggests that children in the UK start consuming free sugars (those added to foods and drinks and those occurring naturally in fruit juices, honey and syrups) at a very young age, and that many toddlers' sugar intake exceeds the maximum recommended amount for children aged 4 and older.

2 May 2022

Study finds 67% of individuals with long COVID are developing dysautonomia

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers analyzed the traits of autonomic symptom burden in long coronavirus disease (COVID).

1 May 2022

Roswell Park's nursing teams share research at 47th Annual Congress of the Oncology Nursing Society

Several nursing teams from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center were invited to share their research at the 47th Annual Congress of the Oncology Nursing Society, which is underway in Anaheim, California, and continues through May 1, 2022.

29 Apr 2022

New workflow identifies hidden genetic connections that could improve personalized medicine for IBD

All humans carry genetic variations in their DNA, called Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) that can underlie susceptibility to diseases such as diabetes and cancer.

28 Apr 2022

UrFU sociologists identify digital fears among young people

Sociologists at the Ural Federal University have identified digital fears among young people. According to experts, these are additional fears that do not replace, but complement and reinforce traditional ones.

28 Apr 2022

High-frequency spinal cord stimulation proves to be more effective at improving perceived pain reduction

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic pain involves delivering low levels of electricity directly into the spinal cord using an implanted device, which modifies or blocks nerve activity to minimize the sensation of pain reaching the brain.

28 Apr 2022

U.S. ban on menthol cigarettes will lead more than 1.3 million smokers to quit

A new study projects that a U.S. ban on menthol cigarettes, proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will lead more than 1.3 million smokers to quit. Among them, Black smokers will see the greatest impact.

28 Apr 2022

Black and Hispanic people get the same benefits from CAR-T therapy as white patients

CAR-T therapy, a form of immunotherapy that revs up T-cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells, has revolutionized the treatment of blood cancers, including certain leukemias, lymphomas, and most recently, multiple myeloma.

28 Apr 2022

MAPK pathway mutations can provide “precision” treatment targets for head and neck cancer

About one-fifth of often deadly head and neck cancers harbor genetic mutations in a pathway that is key to normal cell growth, and scientists report those mutations, which enable abnormal cancer cell growth, can also make the cancer vulnerable.

28 Apr 2022

Adult vaccination rates and social determinants of health influenced children’s mental health during pandemic

Adult vaccination rates and social determinants of health - or the social and economic conditions in which families live and work - have played an important role in children's mental health during the pandemic, according to a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

27 Apr 2022

Evaluating safety of three doses of messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines

Researchers evaluated the safety profile and adverse events associated with COVID-19 boosters or additional vaccinations.

27 Apr 2022

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Researchers use electricity to design tool that may help create pharmaceutical compounds

Children without diapers do not get quality sleep, study says

How a COVID support team mitigated SARS-CoV-2 transmission within a university community

COVID-19-related restrictions impact women’s access to water in Pacific Islands

Understanding dysphagia symptoms after spine surgery can help improve patients' quality of life

New WHO report recommends interventions and policy options to tackle obesity in Europe

Study explores which occupations had the greatest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and how relative differences varied over the pandemic

New insights on the mechanisms of transmission of bacterial pathogen that causes listeriosis

Combining two cancer drugs can be effective in treating specific type of colorectal cancer, study shows

British children's sugar intake exceeds current public health recommendations

Study finds 67% of individuals with long COVID are developing dysautonomia

Roswell Park's nursing teams share research at 47th Annual Congress of the Oncology Nursing Society

New workflow identifies hidden genetic connections that could improve personalized medicine for IBD

UrFU sociologists identify digital fears among young people

High-frequency spinal cord stimulation proves to be more effective at improving perceived pain reduction

U.S. ban on menthol cigarettes will lead more than 1.3 million smokers to quit

Black and Hispanic people get the same benefits from CAR-T therapy as white patients

MAPK pathway mutations can provide “precision” treatment targets for head and neck cancer

Adult vaccination rates and social determinants of health influenced children’s mental health during pandemic

Evaluating safety of three doses of messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines

Understanding cultivated meat and its global potential eBook

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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