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California taps libraries and tax offices to recruit 20,000 new disease detectives

After more than two months at home, librarian Lisa Fagundes misses managing her sci-fi book collection so much, she feels she’s in withdrawal, longing to see new books, touch them, smell them. “It’s like a disease,” she said, laughing.

17 Jun 2020

Social norms may influence the consumption of risky food

Who can make you eat pink hamburgers or uncooked chicken? Your future parents-in-law, research shows. Even though you know and feel that eating certain food is risky, the social norms governing the eating situation may make you eat it anyway.

17 Jun 2020

Time-driven activity-based costing can be an effective strategy to support value-based healthcare

Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR - the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the publication of results of a study suggesting that time-driven activity-based costing can be an effective technique to support value-based healthcare initiatives.

17 Jun 2020

New nanoparticle drug combination can help treat atherosclerosis

Physicochemical cargo-switching nanoparticles (CSNP) designed by KAIST can help significantly reduce cholesterol and macrophage foam cells in arteries, which are the two main triggers for atherosclerotic plaque and inflammation.

17 Jun 2020

Pandemic upends the lives of people with disabilities — and of their caregivers

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Stacy Ellingen, 34, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, lost two of the three caregivers she depends on to dress, shower, eat and use the bathroom. The caregivers — both University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students — returned to their parents’ homes when the university canceled in-person classes.

17 Jun 2020

C-OPN accelerates Parkinson’s disease research and treatment

Parkinson Canada invites people living with Parkinson’s disease to join the Canadian Open Parkinson Network to be part of the solution to improve lives for those living with Parkinson’s and ultimately to help discover a cure.

17 Jun 2020

CSIRO study reveals negative impact of COVID-19 on weight and emotional wellbeing

A new study by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has found that weight and emotional wellbeing has suffered throughout the COVID-19 lockdown, with Australians also feeling concerned about how long it will take for life to return to “normal”.

17 Jun 2020

CSIRO and Microsoft partner to tackle global challenges

Artificial intelligence and other digital technologies will be harnessed to tackle global challenges including illegal fishing and plastic waste, and to boost farming as part of a new partnership between Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and Microsoft.

17 Jun 2020

Medwise.ai wins Innovate UK funding to develop AI-powered platform that answers COVID-19 questions

Accelerate Cambridge and DigitalHealth.London launchpad company Medwise.ai announces it was selected from over 8600 applications to receive funding by the UK Government to develop an AI-powered platform that answers COVID-19 questions for healthcare professionals.

17 Jun 2020

Researchers take actions to reduce hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19

Infectious disease experts from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and UW Medicine are advocating for earlier actions to reduce hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.

17 Jun 2020

Study: One in five adults experienced a decrease in their sexual behavior early in the pandemic

One in five adults in the United States report they have experienced change - mostly a decrease - in their sexual behavior during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers.

16 Jun 2020

A new, daily home-monitoring program for patients presumed COVID-19 positive

How do you monitor patients who have COVID-19 symptoms but are not ill enough to come to the emergency department? And how do you help those patients feel cared about and less frightened while convalescing at home?

16 Jun 2020

Key factors to "flattening the curve": Western Washington state's COVID-19 experience

Despite having the first confirmed case of coronavirus and the first major COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, the state of Washington implemented a response plan that kept its death rate the lowest among all states that have had major outbreaks.

16 Jun 2020

Georgia Tech professor donated 7,000 gallons of redesigned sanitizer to fight COVID-19

So many people Seth Marder spoke to didn't see the hand sanitizer crisis brewing. The country was going to run dangerously short if someone did not act urgently.

16 Jun 2020

Toilet flushing can create a cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets

Researchers used a computer simulation to show how a flushing toilet can create a cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets that is large and widespread and lasts long enough that the droplets could be breathed in by others.

16 Jun 2020

Study highlights vulnerability of people in refugee camps to COVID-19

A COVID-19 outbreak in a refugee settlement will likely overwhelm the available healthcare capacity and infrastructure and spread through nearly the entire settlement population if left unchecked, according to a new study published June 16 in PLOS Medicine by Paul Spiegel of Johns Hopkins University, United States, and colleagues.

16 Jun 2020

Including patients in hospital discharge letters could enhance outcomes of care

Sending discharge letters to patients as well as their GPs when they leave UK hospitals could make a substantial difference to patient outcomes, according to a new study by University of Warwick researchers.

16 Jun 2020

All of Us Research Program launches initiatives to seek new insights into COVID-19

The All of Us Research Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced that it is leveraging its significant and diverse participant base to seek new insights into COVID-19--through antibody testing, a survey on the pandemic's impacts and collection of electronic health record information.

16 Jun 2020

Repeated coughing adversely affects filtering efficiency of face masks

Face masks are thought to slow the spread of viruses, including the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but little is known about how well they work.

16 Jun 2020

New $26.9 million project aims to create better psychiatric drugs without side effects

Rapidly acting drugs to treat depression, anxiety, or substance abuse without side effects do not exist. Researchers led by Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the UNC School of Medicine, are trying to change that.

16 Jun 2020

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California taps libraries and tax offices to recruit 20,000 new disease detectives

Social norms may influence the consumption of risky food

Time-driven activity-based costing can be an effective strategy to support value-based healthcare

New nanoparticle drug combination can help treat atherosclerosis

Pandemic upends the lives of people with disabilities — and of their caregivers

C-OPN accelerates Parkinson’s disease research and treatment

CSIRO study reveals negative impact of COVID-19 on weight and emotional wellbeing

CSIRO and Microsoft partner to tackle global challenges

Medwise.ai wins Innovate UK funding to develop AI-powered platform that answers COVID-19 questions

Researchers take actions to reduce hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19

Study: One in five adults experienced a decrease in their sexual behavior early in the pandemic

A new, daily home-monitoring program for patients presumed COVID-19 positive

Key factors to "flattening the curve": Western Washington state's COVID-19 experience

Georgia Tech professor donated 7,000 gallons of redesigned sanitizer to fight COVID-19

Toilet flushing can create a cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets

Study highlights vulnerability of people in refugee camps to COVID-19

Including patients in hospital discharge letters could enhance outcomes of care

All of Us Research Program launches initiatives to seek new insights into COVID-19

Repeated coughing adversely affects filtering efficiency of face masks

New $26.9 million project aims to create better psychiatric drugs without side effects

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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