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Newly developed mobile app helps reduce pain in osteoarthritis patients

By performing a few simple physical exercises daily, and receiving information about their disease regularly, 500 osteoarthritis patients were able to on average halve their pain in 6 months - and improve their physical function.

5 Mar 2020

City Of Hope builds cloud-based data commons platform for observational study

A $12 million federal grant enabled City of Hope and collaborators to deploy a novel cloud-computing platform, making an immense amount of data from a historic 25-year study more accessible and user-friendly.

5 Mar 2020

Norwegian national center receives NOK 22.5 million for the fight against Alzheimer's disease

The Foundation Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen has donated NOK 22.5 million to a Norwegian national center for the fight against Alzheimer's disease. The grant was made public on 26 February.

5 Mar 2020

New NGS technique offers quick, accurate diagnosis of sepsis

A report in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, published by Elsevier, describes a new technique that uses real-time next-generation sequencing to analyze tiny amounts of microbial cell-free DNA in the plasma of patients with sepsis, offering the possibility of accurate diagnosis of sepsis-causing agents within a few hours of drawing blood.

5 Mar 2020

New coronavirus app combined with machine intelligence to enable at-home risk assessment

A coronavirus app coupled with machine intelligence will soon enable an individual to get an at-home risk assessment based on how they feel and where they've been in about a minute, and direct those deemed at risk to the nearest definitive testing facility, investigators say.

5 Mar 2020

Combined biopsy more likely to detect aggressive prostate cancers than standard biopsy alone

Using a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to target and sample suspicious prostate tissue along with a standard prostate biopsy is significantly more likely to detect the most aggressive prostate cancers than standard biopsy alone.

5 Mar 2020

New book focuses on lack of intersectional racial and gender diversity in the technology sector

When Sasha Costanza-Chock goes through airport security, it is an unusually uncomfortable experience.

5 Mar 2020

New collapsible basket technology has big advantages for drug discovery, personalized medicine

A drug discovery scientist typically screens up to 10,000 compounds in the early stages of developing one FDA approved drug. During this high-throughput screening, candidate compounds are initially tested on cell and tissue samples.

4 Mar 2020

Personalized approach in IVF increases success rate

Becoming pregnant can be a lengthy and stressful process for one in every six couples. As fertility treatment protocols are based on the "average woman", approximately 30 per cent of patients need a personalised approach in IVF.

4 Mar 2020

Two genome sequences of coronavirus (COVID-19) show possible internal transmission

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is rapidly spreading around the globe. With the high infection rate and spread of the virus to more than 80 countries, scientists are racing to study the nature of the virus, in the hopes of finding new vaccines and therapeutics.

4 Mar 2020

NIHR awards £500,000 grant to examine effectiveness of obesity treatment

Dr. Jennifer Logue of Lancaster Medical School has been awarded half a million pounds by the National Institute for Health Research to examine the effectiveness of NHS and local government interventions to treat obesity.

4 Mar 2020

New report reveals damaging impact of poverty and exploitation on children

The damaging impact of poverty on children and their families and the growing problem of exploitation are revealed in a new report by researchers at the University of East Anglia and University of Warwick.

4 Mar 2020

Integrating computer and statistical models can improve clinical decisions relating to the heart

In recent times, researchers have increasing found that the power of computers and artificial intelligence is enabling more accurate diagnosis of a patient's current heart health and can provide an accurate projection of future heart health, potential treatments and disease prevention.

4 Mar 2020

New experimental platform for cancer diagnostics, prognoses and testing drugs

Parts of tumor tissue, which is normally discarded in cancer surgery, bear information about the disease. So far, as studies at the University of Gothenburg show, this has been unexploited.

4 Mar 2020

Study shows protective effect of bilingualism against dementia

The conclusions of a study carried out by Víctor Costumero, as the first author, Marco Calabria and Albert Costa (died in 2018), members of the Speech Production and Bilingualism group at the Cognition and Brain Center (CBC) of the Department of Information Technology and the Communications of the UPF, together with researchers from the Universities of Jaume I, Valencia, Barcelona and Jaén; IDIBELL, Hospital La Fe (Valencia) and Grupo Médico ERESA (Valencia) show that bilingualism acts as a cognitive reserve factor against dementia.

4 Mar 2020

Study suggests guidelines to enhance content of educational videos on chronic conditions

Many people with chronic health conditions search social media, including YouTube videos, to learn more about how to manage their diagnoses. But these videos differ in how well they communicate information and hold viewers' attention.

3 Mar 2020

Big Pharma more profitable than most other large public firms

A large study published in the journal JAMA in March 2020 reports that large pharmaceutical companies make a much larger profit from their products than other large public companies. This is important because it indicates the potential to reduce drug prices while sustaining competitive and innovative drug development and marketing.

3 Mar 2020

Profit-prediction system may reduce suicide rates among indebted farmers in India

Researchers at Penn State are taking steps to address the alarming rate of suicides among indebted farmers in India, by developing a deep-learning algorithm as the first step in a decision-support system that could predict future market values of crops.

3 Mar 2020

Prebiotics could help improve sleep and boost stress resilience

Think dietary fiber is just for digestive health? Think again.

3 Mar 2020

Discovery Of Gabaergic Synaptic Regulations Inside The Brain For A New Epilepsy Treatment

DGIST announced on February 12 that the joint research team of Professor Jaewon Ko and Professor Ji Won Um in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences found a new candidate target to treat epilepsy by regulating GABAergic synaptic functions

3 Mar 2020

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Newly developed mobile app helps reduce pain in osteoarthritis patients

City Of Hope builds cloud-based data commons platform for observational study

Norwegian national center receives NOK 22.5 million for the fight against Alzheimer's disease

New NGS technique offers quick, accurate diagnosis of sepsis

New coronavirus app combined with machine intelligence to enable at-home risk assessment

Combined biopsy more likely to detect aggressive prostate cancers than standard biopsy alone

New book focuses on lack of intersectional racial and gender diversity in the technology sector

New collapsible basket technology has big advantages for drug discovery, personalized medicine

Personalized approach in IVF increases success rate

Two genome sequences of coronavirus (COVID-19) show possible internal transmission

NIHR awards £500,000 grant to examine effectiveness of obesity treatment

New report reveals damaging impact of poverty and exploitation on children

Integrating computer and statistical models can improve clinical decisions relating to the heart

New experimental platform for cancer diagnostics, prognoses and testing drugs

Study shows protective effect of bilingualism against dementia

Study suggests guidelines to enhance content of educational videos on chronic conditions

Big Pharma more profitable than most other large public firms

Profit-prediction system may reduce suicide rates among indebted farmers in India

Prebiotics could help improve sleep and boost stress resilience

Discovery Of Gabaergic Synaptic Regulations Inside The Brain For A New Epilepsy Treatment

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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