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Duke receives federal funding for HIV vaccine research

The Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the Department of Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine received a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for HIV vaccine research that could total $25.9 million with full funding over five years.

11 Oct 2022

Neuropilin 2 identified as a novel regulator of distal colonic smooth muscle motility

Colonic motility disorders, especially problems associated with constipation and diarrhea, are common in adults and children, greatly impacting quality of life.

11 Oct 2022

Virginia Tech graduate student receives NIH grant to explore new ways to treat arrythmias

Zach Williams thought he'd become a cancer researcher when he joined Virginia Tech's Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program three years ago.

11 Oct 2022

Study: 70% of junior doctors reported severe depression, anxiety or stress during Covid-19 pandemic

Poor working conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic were factors in nearly half of junior doctors reporting symptoms of extremely severe depression, according to a new study led by the University of Surrey.

11 Oct 2022

Mask use in children shown to cause no respiratory distress

In a new study, researchers investigated whether surgical and N95 face masks cause respiratory distress in children.

11 Oct 2022

Colonoscopy-screening less effective to prevent patients from dying from colorectal cancer

On October 10 the world's first randomized study on using colonoscopy-screening to prevent colorectal cancer was presented during the 2022 UEG Week in Vienna.

11 Oct 2022

Researchers explore drug-repurposing candidates acting against nucleotide-binding pockets of multiple SARS-CoV-2 proteins

In a new study, researchers pursued direct-acting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 drugs that compete for nucleotide-binding pockets (NBPs) of SARS-CoV-2 proteins.

11 Oct 2022

New thesis reports the need to improve screening programs for childhood hearing loss

Screening programmes for childhood hearing loss need to become better at collecting data and measuring outcomes in order to increase quality, such as improving the percentage of follow-ups, a new thesis from Karolinska Institutet reports.

11 Oct 2022

Researchers identify brain cells responsible for shifts in the sleep-wake rhythm

A research team of the Center for Brain Research at the Medical University of Vienna has identified a specific cell group in the brain responsible for shifts in the sleep-wake rhythm caused by psychostimulants.

11 Oct 2022

Review on COVID-19 biomedical waste-derived microplastic toxicity

In a new study, researchers reviewed existing literature on the biomedical waste source, elements, and the recent upsurge of microplastics during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

11 Oct 2022

Are men or women impacted more by adverse reactions to prescription drug treatments?

Recently, researchers presented an overview of sex-based differences in adverse drug reactions (ADRs) based on epidemiology, technique, and underlying mechanism data.

11 Oct 2022

CT and MRI scans fail to detect many pancreatic cancer cases, study reveals

Pancreatic cancer tumors are being missed on CT and MRI scans, narrowing the window for life-saving curative surgery, research presented today at UEG Week 2022 has revealed.

11 Oct 2022

Video games may trigger life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in susceptible children

Electronic gaming can precipitate life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in susceptible children whose predisposition may have been previously unrecognized, according to a new report in Heart Rhythm, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, and the Pediatric & Congenital Electrophysiology Society, published by Elsevier.

11 Oct 2022

Study opens up new approaches for treating fatty liver disease

A study group at MedUni Vienna has identified a regulatory loop controlled by leptin, by which this adipocyte-derived hormone regulates hepatic lipid metabolism via the autonomic nervous system.

11 Oct 2022

What are the vaccine attributes influencing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among American parents?

A new study reports the results of a survey among parents in this country, aimed at identifying the primary risk factors for parental vaccine hesitancy.

11 Oct 2022

What is the association of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination with the risk of PASC in patients with SARDs?

Findings of a new study depicted that fully vaccinated patients suffering from systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases harbor a lower propensity to developing long COVID symptoms compared to SARDs patients who are not fully vaccinated.

11 Oct 2022

Using neuroimaging to investigate how petting dogs could help clinicians improve animal-assisted therapy

In this interview, News Medical speaks to Rahel Marti, Ph.D. student in the faculty of Psychology at the University of Basel, about her new research, which shows that petting dogs engages the social brain, leading the way for new potentialities in animal-assisted clinical therapy.

11 Oct 2022

Pulmonary radiological patterns in patients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia

A recent Respiratory Medicine Case Reports study reported the pulmonary tomographic findings in severely infected COVID-19 patients with critical pneumonia.

11 Oct 2022

BNT162b2 COVID-19 booster vaccine induces robust humoral responses independent of the interval between the first two doses

A recent Cell Reports study evaluated humoral responses induced after the second and third doses of the mRNA vaccine.

11 Oct 2022

The association of BNT16B2b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with thrombocytopenia and pneumonitis: A case report

The case report of a patient who developed pneumonitis and thrombocytopenia concurrently after being administered the COVID-19 vaccine.

11 Oct 2022

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Duke receives federal funding for HIV vaccine research

Neuropilin 2 identified as a novel regulator of distal colonic smooth muscle motility

Virginia Tech graduate student receives NIH grant to explore new ways to treat arrythmias

Study: 70% of junior doctors reported severe depression, anxiety or stress during Covid-19 pandemic

Mask use in children shown to cause no respiratory distress

Colonoscopy-screening less effective to prevent patients from dying from colorectal cancer

Researchers explore drug-repurposing candidates acting against nucleotide-binding pockets of multiple SARS-CoV-2 proteins

New thesis reports the need to improve screening programs for childhood hearing loss

Researchers identify brain cells responsible for shifts in the sleep-wake rhythm

Review on COVID-19 biomedical waste-derived microplastic toxicity

Are men or women impacted more by adverse reactions to prescription drug treatments?

CT and MRI scans fail to detect many pancreatic cancer cases, study reveals

Video games may trigger life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in susceptible children

Study opens up new approaches for treating fatty liver disease

What are the vaccine attributes influencing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among American parents?

What is the association of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination with the risk of PASC in patients with SARDs?

Using neuroimaging to investigate how petting dogs could help clinicians improve animal-assisted therapy

Pulmonary radiological patterns in patients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia

BNT162b2 COVID-19 booster vaccine induces robust humoral responses independent of the interval between the first two doses

The association of BNT16B2b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with thrombocytopenia and pneumonitis: A case report

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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