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WHO experts recommend antibody treatment for two specific groups of patients with covid-19

A treatment combining two antibodies (casirivimab and imdevimab) is recommended for two specific groups of patients with covid-19 by a WHO Guideline Development Group (GDG) panel of international experts and patients in The BMJ today.

24 Sep 2021

Higher-rated dialysis facilities yield a 47% higher likelihood of transplant waitlisting for patients

Dialysis centers, the gatekeepers of kidney transplantation waitlisting, produce more data and inspire more policies today than ever before.

24 Sep 2021

Radiation therapy for ventricular tachycardia may revert heart muscle cells to a younger state

Radiation therapy for ventricular tachycardia — a life-threatening irregular heart rhythm — appears to work by reverting heart muscle cells to a younger state, reducing the irregular rhythms, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

24 Sep 2021

MHRI aims to delve deeper into how musical intervention can affect health

If popular wisdom holds that music is good for the soul, science is increasingly seeking to better understand how music can affect the body, brain, and mind, as evidenced by the 2020 publication of the first World Health Organization report on health and music.

24 Sep 2021

New 3D pancreatic cancer model could be used to develop and test targeted treatments

An international team of scientists have created a three-dimensional (3D) pancreatic cancer tumour model in the laboratory, combining a bioengineered matrix and patient-derived cells that could be used to develop and test targeted treatments.

24 Sep 2021

Survey: Many Black parents express COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy for their children

Nearly half of Black parents (48 percent) were hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine for their child, compared to 33 percent of Latinx parents and 26 percent of white parents, according to survey results from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

24 Sep 2021

Mounting covid deaths fuel school bus drivers’ fears

Natalia D'Angelo got sick right after school started in August. She was driving a school bus for special education students in Griffin-Spalding County School System about 40 miles south of Atlanta and contracted covid-19.

24 Sep 2021

Researchers discover how Rift Valley fever virus enters cells

Rift Valley fever virus causes economically devastating outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in livestock such as sheep, goats and cattle.

24 Sep 2021

May-Thurner anatomy common in patients with CTEPH, new study shows

Like highways, roads, and side streets, blood vessels in the human body come in different sizes, with a range of traffic-carrying capacities. These differences are critical to facilitating blood flow through tissues.

24 Sep 2021

New mutations enable gliomas to resist proven treatment, study shows

About one-third of all brain tumors are gliomas, cancerous growths that originate in the glial cells that surround and support neurons in the brain. The prognosis for patients with gliomas is not good, with the average survival time being 12-18 months.

24 Sep 2021

Using air filtration to remove airborne SARS-CoV-2 and other microbial aerosols in COVID wards

University of Cambridge researchers conducted a study in two repurposed COVID-19 units in Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK, between January and February 2021. During this time, the alpha variant (lineage B1.1.7) accounted for >80% of the circulating SARS-CoV-2. This study, posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, aimed to provide evidence of the removal of SARS-CoV-2 and microbial bioaerosols using portable air filters with UV sterilization.

24 Sep 2021

Early weight loss may protect future fertility of young boys with obesity

Reproductive function in boys with obesity may be improved through weight loss, which could protect their fertility in adulthood, according to research presented today at the 59th Annual European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Meeting.

23 Sep 2021

COVID-19 vaccination eases healthcare demand

A new study discusses a model that has been developed to predict the effects of relaxing restrictions on the number of new COVID-19 cases.

23 Sep 2021

NIH-funded project to test light therapies to combat Alzheimer’s debilitating effects

Alzheimer's disease is a mind-robbing brain disorder that affects nearly 6.2 million older Americans. Despite decades of research on high-tech drugs, diets, and crossword puzzles, scientists have yet to discover a highly effective treatment for patients.

23 Sep 2021

New program sets out to change the European landscape for emerging medical radionuclides

The European medical radionuclides programme sets out to substantially change the European landscape for novel and emerging medical radionuclides.

23 Sep 2021

Altered characteristics of granulocytes in COVID-19 patients can be linked to disease severity

COVID-19 disease severity seems to be affected by the characteristics of white blood cells called granulocytes, which are part of the innate immune system.

23 Sep 2021

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The autumn of Democrats’ discontent

Democrats in Congress and the White House are feverishly negotiating to pass as much of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda as they can agree on, even as Republicans who oppose much of the increased spending threaten to shut down the government and default on the nation's debt.

23 Sep 2021

New discovery may offer a promising avenue for study of multiple sclerosis

A surprising discovery may offer a promising new direction in the study of multiple sclerosis and other diseases of hypomyelination – when axons of neurons are not covered sufficiently in fatty sheaths (myelin), which disrupts communication between nerve cells.

23 Sep 2021

Differences in blood gene expression among patients with varying COVID-19 severity

A new study published on the medRxiv* pre-print server and currently undergoing peer-review aims to answer this question through whole blood transcriptomics of individuals with varying degrees of COVID-19 severity. Transcriptomics, done by RNA sequencing, gives insights into the genes expressed in a cell at a given time point. It gives an analysis of all RNA molecules within a cell, in this case, whole blood.

23 Sep 2021

Long-term effects of COVID-19 in children

A recent preprint deals with the incidence and importance of long COVID in children.

23 Sep 2021

Hospital News and Research

WHO experts recommend antibody treatment for two specific groups of patients with covid-19

Higher-rated dialysis facilities yield a 47% higher likelihood of transplant waitlisting for patients

Radiation therapy for ventricular tachycardia may revert heart muscle cells to a younger state

MHRI aims to delve deeper into how musical intervention can affect health

New 3D pancreatic cancer model could be used to develop and test targeted treatments

Survey: Many Black parents express COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy for their children

Mounting covid deaths fuel school bus drivers’ fears

Researchers discover how Rift Valley fever virus enters cells

May-Thurner anatomy common in patients with CTEPH, new study shows

New mutations enable gliomas to resist proven treatment, study shows

Using air filtration to remove airborne SARS-CoV-2 and other microbial aerosols in COVID wards

Early weight loss may protect future fertility of young boys with obesity

COVID-19 vaccination eases healthcare demand

NIH-funded project to test light therapies to combat Alzheimer’s debilitating effects

New program sets out to change the European landscape for emerging medical radionuclides

Altered characteristics of granulocytes in COVID-19 patients can be linked to disease severity

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The autumn of Democrats’ discontent

New discovery may offer a promising avenue for study of multiple sclerosis

Differences in blood gene expression among patients with varying COVID-19 severity

Long-term effects of COVID-19 in children

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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