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New imaging technique can better identify the presence of residual cancers in rectal tissues

Rectal cancer, along with colon cancer, is the third-most common type of cancer in the United States, and treatment and surgery greatly affect the quality of life of patients.

26 Mar 2021

Salk joins a long list of recipients included in The Conrad Prebys Foundation’s inaugural grant cycle

Salk Professor Thomas Albright has been awarded $1 million and Assistant Professor Edward Stites awarded $500,000 by The Conrad Prebys Foundation as part of its inaugural round of grants.

26 Mar 2021

Lupus patients with lower vitamin D levels more likely to have metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance

Patients with lupus are more likely to have metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance - both factors linked to heart disease - if they have lower vitamin D levels, a new study reveals.

26 Mar 2021

New ‘SINT1A‘ study explores potential of a probiotic to prevent type 1 diabetes in children

Type 1 diabetes is the most common metabolic disease in children and adolescents worldwide. It can be particularly dangerous as often there is no diagnosis until severe and sometimes life-threatening symptoms have already developed.

26 Mar 2021

Demographic and clinical comparison of the first and second COVID-19 waves in London, UK

In a paper recently uploaded to the preprint server medRxiv*, clinical and demographic data from across the UK is compared to viral genome sequence data, identifying trends amongst the population affected, and across SARS-CoV-2 strains.

26 Mar 2021

Her doctor’s office moved one floor up. Her bill was 10 times higher.

Kyunghee Lee's right hand hurts all the time. She spent decades running a family dry cleaning store outside Cleveland after emigrating from South Korea 40 years ago. She still freelances as a seamstress, although work has slowed amid the covid-19 pandemic.

26 Mar 2021

How one state’s public health defunding led to vaccination chaos

Missourians have driven hours to find vaccines in rural counties — at least those with cars and the time. Tens of thousands of doses are waiting to be distributed, slowly being rolled out in a federal long-term care program.

26 Mar 2021

Combination of X-rays and AI can serve as rapid diagnostic tool for COVID-19

X-rays, first used clinically in the late 1890s, could be a leading-edge diagnostic tool for COVID-19 patients with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a team of researchers in Brazil who taught a computer program, through various machine learning methods, to detect COVID-19 in chest X-rays with 95.6 to 98.5% accuracy.

26 Mar 2021

DAPK3 slows tumor growth by activating fierce-sounding STING pathway

The glow of a panther's eyes in the darkness. The zig-zagging of a shark's dorsal fin above the water. Humans are always scanning the world for threats.

26 Mar 2021

Scientists identify new genetic clues to treat “silent’ stroke

Scientists have identified new genetic clues in people who've had small and often apparently 'silent' strokes that are difficult to treat and a major cause of vascular dementia, according to research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and published in The Lancet Neurology.

26 Mar 2021

DNMT3a plays a key role in regulating HSC responses to infections

Humans are born with tens of thousands of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that collectively ensure lifelong production of blood and immune cells that protect us from infections.

26 Mar 2021

Moffitt researchers use mathematical modeling to help explain outcomes of CAR T-cell therapy

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR T, is a relatively new type of therapy approved to treat several types of aggressive B cell leukemias and lymphomas.

25 Mar 2021

Blood type-incompatible pediatric heart transplant shown to be as effective as the traditional approach

A pediatric heart transplant procedure pioneered by Canadian doctors--once deemed impossible--has been shown to be at least as effective as the traditional approach, according to newly published research in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

25 Mar 2021

Therapeutic bed can help keep premature babies' brain oxygen levels steady during procedures

A medical device that has been shown to manage pain among babies born preterm can also help keep their brain oxygen levels steady during medical procedures, finds new analysis by researchers at UBC.

25 Mar 2021

Study may provide an explanation for dawn phenomenon in patients with type 2 diabetes

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Shandong University in China and other institutions may have found an explanation for dawn phenomenon, an abnormal increase of blood sugar only in the morning, observed in many patients with type 2 diabetes.

25 Mar 2021

Duke-NUS professor and his team receive two awards at the International Stroke Conference 2021

Professor David Matchar and his team from the Health Services and Systems Research Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, bagged two prestigious awards at the International Stroke Conference 2021 for their project on a randomised controlled trial investigating the effects of incentives on improving the uptake of outpatient rehabilitation services (ORS) among stroke patients in Singapore.

25 Mar 2021

Physically active people recover better after colorectal cancer surgery

People who are physically active on a regular basis recover better after surgery for colorectal cancer. However, starting to exercise only after the diagnosis is a fact had no effect on recovery, a University of Gothenburg thesis shows.

25 Mar 2021

Smoking cessation therapy for hospitalized patients may help avoid many premature deaths

Smoking cigarettes causes 480,000 premature deaths each year in the United States, due mainly to a two-fold risk of cardiovascular disease and a 20-fold risk of lung cancer. Although smoking rates have declined dramatically, there are currently 35 million smokers in the U.S.

25 Mar 2021

Study observes correlation between COVID-19 mortality and autoantibodies in corticosteroid treated patients

Corticosteroid anti-inflammatory drugs have been applied to COVID-19 patients over the course of the pandemic, though the results are mixed. In a recent study, the outcomes for such patients are collated, demonstrating a striking correlation between the development of autoantibodies and mortality.

25 Mar 2021

Nosing in on kids who had Covid and lost their sense of smell

Orange. Eucalyptus. Lavender. Peppermint. Doctors at Children's Hospital Colorado and Seattle Children's Hospital will use scents like these to treat children who lost their sense of smell to Covid-19. Parents will attend clinics and go home with a set of essential oils for their child to sniff twice a day for three months. Clinicians will check their progress monthly.

25 Mar 2021

Hospital News and Research

New imaging technique can better identify the presence of residual cancers in rectal tissues

Salk joins a long list of recipients included in The Conrad Prebys Foundation’s inaugural grant cycle

Lupus patients with lower vitamin D levels more likely to have metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance

New ‘SINT1A‘ study explores potential of a probiotic to prevent type 1 diabetes in children

Demographic and clinical comparison of the first and second COVID-19 waves in London, UK

Her doctor’s office moved one floor up. Her bill was 10 times higher.

How one state’s public health defunding led to vaccination chaos

Combination of X-rays and AI can serve as rapid diagnostic tool for COVID-19

DAPK3 slows tumor growth by activating fierce-sounding STING pathway

Scientists identify new genetic clues to treat “silent’ stroke

DNMT3a plays a key role in regulating HSC responses to infections

Moffitt researchers use mathematical modeling to help explain outcomes of CAR T-cell therapy

Blood type-incompatible pediatric heart transplant shown to be as effective as the traditional approach

Therapeutic bed can help keep premature babies' brain oxygen levels steady during procedures

Study may provide an explanation for dawn phenomenon in patients with type 2 diabetes

Duke-NUS professor and his team receive two awards at the International Stroke Conference 2021

Physically active people recover better after colorectal cancer surgery

Smoking cessation therapy for hospitalized patients may help avoid many premature deaths

Study observes correlation between COVID-19 mortality and autoantibodies in corticosteroid treated patients

Nosing in on kids who had Covid and lost their sense of smell

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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