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Biodegradable piezoelectric film could help regenerate the native cartilage after knee damage

Osteoarthritis – a painful condition that results from the deterioration of the cartilage in our joints – affects millions of people worldwide.

3 Jun 2022

Immune responses may exist on a finer spectrum than previously believed

Researchers from McGill University and the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) have made some surprising discoveries about our immune system.

3 Jun 2022

Study shows significant changes in sleep timing and screen use among children during the pandemic

A new study to be presented at SLEEP 2022 shows significant changes in sleep timing and screen use among America's children during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

3 Jun 2022

Understanding how wisdom, resiliency and mastery work together to improve a person’s well-being later in life

It's not just wisdom that gives some people a sense of well-being as they age.

3 Jun 2022

Peer-led, family-centered preventive intervention promotes mental health among Bhutanese immigrants in the U.S.

After years of working with Bhutanese community members in Western Massachusetts, a team led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher has developed a peer-led, family-centered preventive intervention to reduce stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms and promote mental health among immigrants in the U.S.

3 Jun 2022

Researchers analyze autopsy findings and comorbidities associated with death caused by COVID-19

Men aged between 60 and 77 with Diffuse Alveolar Damage (DAD) –acute lung injury– in proliferative phase.

3 Jun 2022

New method to combat malaria turns the disease against itself

A new method to combat malaria which sees the disease turn against itself could offer an effective treatment for the hundreds of millions of people infected globally each year, as the efficacy of current antimalarial drugs weakens.

3 Jun 2022

Differences in behavior among people with ASD are closely related to variations in brain anatomy

Differences in behavior among people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are closely related to differences in neuroanatomy – the shape of a brain – a team of Boston College neuroscientists report today in the journal Science.

3 Jun 2022

Diabetes drug's target protein can be a candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Mechanisms associated with a particular diabetes drug can also help to protect against Alzheimer's disease, a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and published in Neurology reports.

3 Jun 2022

Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection during periods with different dominant SARS-CoV-2 variants

A new study found that despite a lower COVID-19 vaccine efficacy against reinfection with the Omicron variant, these vaccines demonstrate a marked efficacy against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta variants, as well as the Omicron variant.

3 Jun 2022

The effect of BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine on human semen

Scientists from Italy have recently analyzed the effect of the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine on the semen quality of adult men.

3 Jun 2022

Use of RAAS inhibitors reduced aneurysm rupture risk by 18%, finds study

A multi-center study of more than 3,000 people with high blood pressure and brain aneurysms found that the use of RAAS inhibitors, a class of blood pressure lowering medications, reduced the risk of an aneurysm rupture by 18%, according to new research published today in Hypertension, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

3 Jun 2022

Study finds socio-economic disparities in physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic

A study conducted by Assistant Professor KYAN Akira (Kobe University Graduate School of Human Development and Environment) and Professor TAKAKURA Minoru (Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus) has identified socio-economic disparities in physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

3 Jun 2022

Women are seldom informed about contraceptive failure following common anesthetic use

Women undergoing operations are not being routinely informed that a common anesthetics may make their contraception less effective, putting them at risk of an unplanned pregnancy, new research being presented at Euroanaesthesia, the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) in Milan, Italy (4-6 June), suggests.

3 Jun 2022

Preoperative BMI and weight play a key role in bariatric surgery outcomes

New research being presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia Congress in Milan, Italy (4-6 June), suggests that preoperative body mass index (BMI) and weight play an important role in outcomes following bariatric (obesity) surgery.

3 Jun 2022

Study finds holocaust survivors may be at lower risk of developing post-operative delirium

Holocaust survivors may be at reduced risk of developing post-operative delirium, Israeli research being presented at Euroanaesthesia, the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) in Milan, Italy (4-6 June), suggests.

3 Jun 2022

Liquid biopsy could better predict immunotherapy response in lung cancer patients than tumor biopsy

Mount Sinai researchers have validated for the first time that a simple blood test called a liquid biopsy could be a better predictor of whether cancer immunotherapy will be successful for a patient with lung cancer than an invasive tumor biopsy procedure.

3 Jun 2022

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Biodegradable piezoelectric film could help regenerate the native cartilage after knee damage

Immune responses may exist on a finer spectrum than previously believed

Study shows significant changes in sleep timing and screen use among children during the pandemic

Understanding how wisdom, resiliency and mastery work together to improve a person’s well-being later in life

Peer-led, family-centered preventive intervention promotes mental health among Bhutanese immigrants in the U.S.

Researchers analyze autopsy findings and comorbidities associated with death caused by COVID-19

New method to combat malaria turns the disease against itself

Differences in behavior among people with ASD are closely related to variations in brain anatomy

Diabetes drug's target protein can be a candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection during periods with different dominant SARS-CoV-2 variants

The effect of BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine on human semen

Use of RAAS inhibitors reduced aneurysm rupture risk by 18%, finds study

Study finds socio-economic disparities in physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Women are seldom informed about contraceptive failure following common anesthetic use

Preoperative BMI and weight play a key role in bariatric surgery outcomes

Study finds holocaust survivors may be at lower risk of developing post-operative delirium

Liquid biopsy could better predict immunotherapy response in lung cancer patients than tumor biopsy

New study seeks to understand the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health visiting services

Marine organism compounds may have potential to help human fertility

A system for detecting emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

Membrane proteins in focus: Turning high-risk targets into routine workflows

How metabolic phenotyping can detect viral infections in minutes

Directed enzyme evolution and the Nobel Prize: Making enzymes evolve in the lab

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