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Scientists empower wireless sensors with vision abilities to fight viruses

Current and former early-career scientists share their stories and tell how Europe has bet on them, making their high-risk research possible: from intelligent wireless sensors with vision abilities to RNA-based techniques to fight viruses, from the mathematical formulas of the MRI waves to optoceutics, the new technique that uses light to repair the heart after a stroke.

15 Dec 2020

Expansion of telepsychiatry may outlast the COVID-19 pandemic

Once the COVID-19 pandemic is over, a lot of things will go back to normal. We'll stop wearing masks. We'll crowd into restaurants. We'll walk whatever direction we want to down grocery store aisles. But some changes that the pandemic spurred might be here to stay. Among them: the expansion of telepsychiatry.

11 Dec 2020

AI tool helps clinical labs to rule out COVID-19

Hospital-based laboratories and doctors at the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic might soon add artificial intelligence to their testing toolkit.

11 Dec 2020

Three leading experts urge US government to be vigilant against anti-vaccination advocates

As the world watches how UK residents respond to COVID-19 vaccinations, three leading experts on the virus are urging Americans and the US government to be vigilant against anti-vaccination advocates and their "rumors, misinformation, and conspiracy theories in a fractured media universe."

11 Dec 2020

Effective adoption of digital technology underpins businesses’ response to COVID-19

Increased adoption of new digital technology has underpinned businesses’ response to COVID-19, with four in ten citing it as both vital to retaining jobs, and the ongoing viability of their business model, according to a new report from the University of Liverpool.

10 Dec 2020

New study examines the increase in virtual doctor visits

When the COVID-19 lockdowns began in mid-March 2020, hospitals and clinics faced a new challenge: How could they continue to provide care to those who could not leave their homes?

5 Dec 2020

FRADE project offers effective help with fall prevention for the elderly

Senior citizens who are a little weaker or frail are often prone to falling. The FRADE concept of the Fraunhofer Center AICOS in Porto offers effective help with prevention. Sensor-based analysis of movements serves as a basis for a tailored training program. If the person actually falls, the system alerts the caregiver via text message. FRADE thus closes a major gap in health care.

4 Dec 2020

COVID-19 mortality varies with demographic profile

A study, published in the preprint server medRxiv*, draws a picture of how infection-related mortality affects two different countries in Latin America.

4 Dec 2020

Chicago neighborhoods with barriers to social distancing had more COVID-19 deaths

New research has found that Chicago neighborhoods with barriers to social distancing, including limited access to broadband internet and low rates of health insurance, had more COVID-19 deaths in spring 2020.

3 Dec 2020

Novel surveillance system can dynamically track direction, speed and acceleration of COVID-19 virus

A new COVID-19 global surveillance system has been developed which can dynamically track not just where the virus is now, but where it is going, how fast it will arrive and whether that speed is accelerating.

3 Dec 2020

Study finds disparity in telemedicine use during the pandemic among head and neck cancer patients

The use of telemedicine services has shown to be exceptionally effective in meeting the health care needs of patients throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

2 Dec 2020

Researchers receive $1.1 million NSF grant to improve in-home physical therapy

Scientists at the VTC Smart Rehab Lab are developing breakthrough, affordable technology and methods to connect stroke survivors to physical therapy at home through tele-rehabilitation.

24 Nov 2020

UC Santa Cruz teams up to launch a web portal for people at risk of heritable stomach cancers

Coinciding with Stomach Cancer Awareness Month in November, the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is teaming up with the patient advocacy nonprofit No Stomach For Cancer to release a web portal designed to help researchers identify individuals at risk of heritable stomach cancers.

24 Nov 2020

Parents complain that pediatricians, wary of COVID, shift sick kids to urgent care

A mom of eight boys, Kim Gudgeon was at her wits' end when she called her family doctor in suburban Chicago to schedule a sick visit for increasingly fussy, 1-year-old Bryce.

23 Nov 2020

NSR launches online treatment study for people experiencing poor sleep during COVID-19 pandemic

Those experiencing poor sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic are being invited to take part in an online treatment study run by sleep experts at Northumbria University.

20 Nov 2020

Parental restrictions have little effect on technology use later in life

"Put your phone away!" "No more video games!" "Ten more minutes of YouTube and you're done!"

18 Nov 2020

Engineers develop free mobile phone app for monitoring glucose levels in diabetic patients

A computer vision technology developed by University of Cambridge engineers has now been developed into a free mobile phone app for regular monitoring of glucose levels in people with diabetes.

16 Nov 2020

Study: 68% of people believe they should ‘reach out’ to carers during coronavirus second wave

Amidst a coronavirus second wave, a study has found that 68% of people believe they should ‘reach out’ to carers more often – with 60% of respondents only asking carers how they are ‘now and again’, ‘rarely’ or ‘almost never’; leaving carers at risk of feeling forgotten.

16 Nov 2020

Antidepressant drug fluvoxamine may prevent some serious complications of COVID-19

In a preliminary study of COVID-19 patients with mild-to-moderate disease who were attempting to recover in their homes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the drug fluvoxamine seems to prevent some of the most serious complications of the illness and make hospitalization and the need for supplemental oxygen less likely.

12 Nov 2020

Machine learning models predict critical events, mortality rate in COVID-19 patients

Mount Sinai researchers have developed machine learning models that predict the likelihood of critical events and mortality in COVID-19 patients within clinically relevant time windows.

11 Nov 2020

Internet News and Research

Scientists empower wireless sensors with vision abilities to fight viruses

Expansion of telepsychiatry may outlast the COVID-19 pandemic

AI tool helps clinical labs to rule out COVID-19

Three leading experts urge US government to be vigilant against anti-vaccination advocates

Effective adoption of digital technology underpins businesses’ response to COVID-19

New study examines the increase in virtual doctor visits

FRADE project offers effective help with fall prevention for the elderly

COVID-19 mortality varies with demographic profile

Chicago neighborhoods with barriers to social distancing had more COVID-19 deaths

Novel surveillance system can dynamically track direction, speed and acceleration of COVID-19 virus

Study finds disparity in telemedicine use during the pandemic among head and neck cancer patients

Researchers receive $1.1 million NSF grant to improve in-home physical therapy

UC Santa Cruz teams up to launch a web portal for people at risk of heritable stomach cancers

Parents complain that pediatricians, wary of COVID, shift sick kids to urgent care

NSR launches online treatment study for people experiencing poor sleep during COVID-19 pandemic

Parental restrictions have little effect on technology use later in life

Engineers develop free mobile phone app for monitoring glucose levels in diabetic patients

Study: 68% of people believe they should ‘reach out’ to carers during coronavirus second wave

Antidepressant drug fluvoxamine may prevent some serious complications of COVID-19

Machine learning models predict critical events, mortality rate in COVID-19 patients

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