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Additional booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine help protect solid organ transplant recipients

Additional booster doses of vaccine against COVID-19 are particularly important for those who are immunosuppressed, namely those who have had solid organ transplants, a new study shows.

13 Apr 2022

COVID-19 pandemic may have amplified prejudicial attitudes against minority groups in the workplace

A new, U.S.-based survey study suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic may have amplified prejudicial attitudes against East Asian and Hispanic colleagues in the workplace.

13 Apr 2022

Mayo Clinic researchers devise a combination approach to more effectively target solid tumors

Researchers at Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine have devised an immunotherapy technique that combines chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy, or CAR-T cell therapy, with a cancer-killing virus to more effectively target and treat solid cancer tumors.

13 Apr 2022

UCL researchers boost the effectiveness of therapeutic vaccine for chronic HBV

Scientists at UCL have significantly boosted the effectiveness of a therapeutic vaccine designed to control chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection, after uncovering and thwarting 'the enemy within'.

13 Apr 2022

Cardiovascular risk factors linked to higher risk of depression in older adults

Cardiovascular risk factors are associated with an increased risk of depression in older adults, according to a new study published April 13 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Sandra Martín-Peláez of University of Granada, Spain, and colleagues.

13 Apr 2022

Cancer patients with non-O blood types face higher risk of developing blood clots

A new Blood Advances study suggests that people with cancer and non-O blood types, such as types A, B, and AB, face an increased risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE), or blood clots in the veins, three months after their initial diagnosis.

13 Apr 2022

Gut microbes play a key role in regulating pancreas function, size and hormone secretion

Gut microbes can regulate the exocrine and endocrine functions of the pancreas and hormone production of the gastrointestinal tract, findings that may help develop potential treatments for diabetes and other diseases, a team of researchers from Boston College, Joslin Diabetes Center, and Maastricht University, Netherlands, report in the journal Diabetes.

13 Apr 2022

Researchers find novel inhibitors that may suppress oncogenesis of metastatic prostate cancer

Researchers have found that treating prostate cancer cells with novel cyclin-dependent kinase 19 (CDK19) and homologous cyclin-dependent kinase 8 (CDK8) inhibitors reduces their potential to migrate into and invade surrounding structures.

13 Apr 2022

AI can help identify which symptoms are more likely to indicate COVID during flu season

Testing shortages, long waits for results, and an over-taxed health care system have made headlines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

13 Apr 2022

Study: About half of young adults reported mental health symptoms during the pandemic

About half of young adults had mental health symptoms during the pandemic and more than a third of those were unable to access mental health therapy, a new UC San Francisco study found.

13 Apr 2022

Study determines hemagglutinin inhibition seroprevalence against swine influenza viruses circulating in Hong Kong and Guangzhou

Researchers performed a quantitative assessment of the age-stratified seroprevalence of hemagglutination inhibition antibodies against five swine influenza viruses circulating in the Guangzhou and Hong Kong cities of China.

13 Apr 2022

CDC study highlights effectiveness of COVID-19 booster vaccination against reinfection and hospitalization

A new study has stated that the third booster dose of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines is 68% effective in preventing reinfection-related hospitalization among persons with a history of SARS-CoV-2.

13 Apr 2022

Case of probable transmission of tick-borne encephalitis virus from an unvaccinated mother to an infant through breast-feeding

A recent study discusses a case report of the probable vertical transmission of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) from an unvaccinated mother to her newborn via breast milk.

13 Apr 2022

Scientific statement from the American Heart Association on COVID-19 and cardiovascular complications in children and adolescents

A recent scientific statement published in Circulation reviewed the current knowledge on COVID-19.

13 Apr 2022

Study explores myopericarditis incidence and COVID-19 vaccination

Researchers investigated the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on the incidence of myopericarditis.

13 Apr 2022

High risk of COVID-19 breakthrough infections among vaccinated individuals with cancer

Researchers examined the risk of breakthrough COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and mortality among COVID-19-vaccinated cancer patients.

13 Apr 2022

Study finds a consistent temporal association between mask use and COVID-19 vaccination status

In a recent study, both vaccinated and unvaccinated participants from the COVID-19 Community Research Partnership (CRP) had their mask-wearing habits evaluated.

13 Apr 2022

The transmission dynamics of key SARS-CoV-2 mutations revealed by subtyping in new study

In a new study, researchers devised a method for reducing the size of a large collection of SARS-CoV-2 genomes by combining correlated single nucleotide variation sets with allelic association.

13 Apr 2022

Epigenetics likely to be the reason why lung cancer patients develop treatment resistance

Doctors typically treat people with nonsmall cell lung cancer, a prevalent and typically incurable type of cancer that makes up 80%-85% of lung cancers, with tyrosine kinase inhibitors, specifically epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors.

13 Apr 2022

Researchers identify certain gene regulation signatures in CAR T-resistant leukemia patients

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells from patients whose cancers did not respond to CD19-targeted CAR T therapy had gene regulation signatures that could potentially facilitate treatment resistance, according to results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2022, held April 8-13.

13 Apr 2022

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Additional booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine help protect solid organ transplant recipients

COVID-19 pandemic may have amplified prejudicial attitudes against minority groups in the workplace

Mayo Clinic researchers devise a combination approach to more effectively target solid tumors

UCL researchers boost the effectiveness of therapeutic vaccine for chronic HBV

Cardiovascular risk factors linked to higher risk of depression in older adults

Cancer patients with non-O blood types face higher risk of developing blood clots

Gut microbes play a key role in regulating pancreas function, size and hormone secretion

Researchers find novel inhibitors that may suppress oncogenesis of metastatic prostate cancer

AI can help identify which symptoms are more likely to indicate COVID during flu season

Study: About half of young adults reported mental health symptoms during the pandemic

Study determines hemagglutinin inhibition seroprevalence against swine influenza viruses circulating in Hong Kong and Guangzhou

CDC study highlights effectiveness of COVID-19 booster vaccination against reinfection and hospitalization

Case of probable transmission of tick-borne encephalitis virus from an unvaccinated mother to an infant through breast-feeding

Scientific statement from the American Heart Association on COVID-19 and cardiovascular complications in children and adolescents

Study explores myopericarditis incidence and COVID-19 vaccination

High risk of COVID-19 breakthrough infections among vaccinated individuals with cancer

Study finds a consistent temporal association between mask use and COVID-19 vaccination status

The transmission dynamics of key SARS-CoV-2 mutations revealed by subtyping in new study

Epigenetics likely to be the reason why lung cancer patients develop treatment resistance

Researchers identify certain gene regulation signatures in CAR T-resistant leukemia patients

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

Managing vibration in IVF laboratories

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

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