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Pregnant people can safely take Paxlovid to reduce the possibility of severe COVID-19, study shows

Findings from a Johns Hopkins Medicine research study published today in JAMA Network Open provide strong evidence that people who are pregnant and have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) can safely take the antiviral drug Paxlovid to reduce the possibility of severe disease.

29 Nov 2022

Competencies for the effective deployment of AI‐based tools in primary care

Family medicine professional associations have sought to identify how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support primary care.

29 Nov 2022

Emory doctors join forces with the Family Heart Foundation to help patients with familial hypercholesterolemia

Doctors from the Emory Heart & Vascular Center are joining forces with the Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, to find and more widely treat undiagnosed patients living with a common genetic condition that causes very high levels of unhealthy cholesterol, heightening the risk for heart attacks and strokes even at a young age.

29 Nov 2022

How do COVID-19 outcomes vary by race and gender?

Researchers investigated the variations in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing and severe outcomes according to race, ethnicity, and gender.

29 Nov 2022

Simultaneous radiation and immunotherapy can benefit mNSCLC patients with high tumor aneuploidy

In many cancer types, cancer cells try to survive by escaping attack from the immune system. These cancer cells hijack mechanisms called immune checkpoints to trick the immune system into thinking they are healthy cells.

28 Nov 2022

Multivalent mRNA-based vaccine may serve as a preventative measure against future flu pandemics

An experimental mRNA-based vaccine against all 20 known subtypes of influenza virus provided broad protection from otherwise lethal flu strains in initial tests, and thus might serve one day as a general preventative measure against future flu pandemics, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

25 Nov 2022

What Impact is Antimicrobial Resistance having on Animal Health?

For World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022, we speak to Junxia Song, FAO Senior Animal Health Officer, about the impact AMR is having on animal health.

24 Nov 2022

COVID-19 disparities more likely to negatively impact Black and Hispanic men

More than two years into the pandemic, multiple analyses of federal, state and local data show that people of color were, and continue to be, disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

23 Nov 2022

CAR T therapy extends its reach beyond oncology

Engineered immune cells, known as CAR T cells, have shown the world what personalized immunotherapies can do to fight blood cancers.

23 Nov 2022

Trickle of covid relief funds helps fill gaps in rural kids’ mental health services

The Mary Hill Youth and Family Center's building has long been at a crossroads overlooking this rural Appalachian city, but its purpose has evolved.

23 Nov 2022

Interdisciplinary guidelines for treatment of children with arthritis of the jaw

Interdisciplinary guidelines to optimize the treatment of childhood arthritis at global level. So far, there no uniform guidelines have existed for the treatment of arthritis of the jaw, a potentially debilitating consequence of juvenile arthritis.

20 Nov 2022

Mistrust and polarization steer rural governments to reject federal public health funding

When Elko County commissioners rejected a $500,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that could have helped the county create a health department or health district, Kayla Hopkins pleaded with them to reconsider.

20 Nov 2022

Key Alzheimer’s gene alters the way cholesterol moves around the brain, research finds

A gene recognized as the strongest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) alters the way cholesterol moves around the brain and as we age, this altered movement likely contributes to loss of learning and memory, a team of researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports.

16 Nov 2022

Health Systems News and Research

Pregnant people can safely take Paxlovid to reduce the possibility of severe COVID-19, study shows

Competencies for the effective deployment of AI‐based tools in primary care

Emory doctors join forces with the Family Heart Foundation to help patients with familial hypercholesterolemia

How do COVID-19 outcomes vary by race and gender?

Simultaneous radiation and immunotherapy can benefit mNSCLC patients with high tumor aneuploidy

Multivalent mRNA-based vaccine may serve as a preventative measure against future flu pandemics

What Impact is Antimicrobial Resistance having on Animal Health?

COVID-19 disparities more likely to negatively impact Black and Hispanic men

CAR T therapy extends its reach beyond oncology

Trickle of covid relief funds helps fill gaps in rural kids’ mental health services

Interdisciplinary guidelines for treatment of children with arthritis of the jaw

Mistrust and polarization steer rural governments to reject federal public health funding

Key Alzheimer’s gene alters the way cholesterol moves around the brain, research finds

Scientists urge immediate action to address weaknesses in European cancer research

Medicine and Mortality in Mali: one health heroine's work to improve community health

UC Davis Health and Illuminate develop program to improve care for at-risk abdominal aortic aneurysm patients

Researchers identify 35 genes that are highly expressed in patients with long-term Lyme disease

Study reveals the ability of smartwatch ECG to accurately detect heart failure

New UK aid will help fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria

How lessons from the HIV epidemic can help combat COVID-19

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