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Parent-based intervention helps reboot healthy eating habits in child cancer survivors

Fussy eating and taste changes are common side effects of cancer treatment – now, a healthy eating program designed by UNSW medical researchers wants to help parents get their child’s diet back on track.

13 Jul 2020

Breakthrough discovery could lead to ‘kinder’ treatments for childhood bone cancer

Researchers at the University of East Anglia and University of Manchester have made an important breakthrough that could lead to ‘kinder’ treatments for children with bone cancer, and save lives.

13 Jul 2020

South Carolina reports first cases of coronavirus-related pediatric inflammatory syndrome

Coronavirus-related pediatric inflammatory syndrome, also known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, is a rare inflammatory condition that affects children and adolescents and is tied to exposure to the novel coronavirus.

13 Jul 2020

Researchers develop COVID-19 mortality risk calculator

A new study published in July 2020 on the preprint server medRxiv describes the use of machine learning to provide a better understanding of the risk factors in large and mixed groups. The use of algorithms can help objectively evaluate these factors and perhaps capture interactions that could be missed in a purely observational study.

13 Jul 2020

Dysfunctional T cells present at high levels in severe COVID-19

Now, a new study by researchers at Saarland University, Germany, and published on the preprint server medRxiv in July 2020 shows that there are higher levels of anti-SARS-CoV-2 T cells, which show significant alterations in the phenotype and function.

12 Jul 2020

No unique viral sequences found in pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2

In contrast to previous hypotheses, researchers from the University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust found no evidence of unique viral sequences from patients with pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS). Their study is published on the medRxiv* preprint server.

12 Jul 2020

Digestive manifestations common but mild among hospitalized COVID-19 patients

A team of 121 researchers from the United States and Canada reports that while digestive manifestations seem to be common among people hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the majority appear to be mild and not associated with severe clinical outcomes.

12 Jul 2020

Increasing level of SARS-CoV-2 detected in Montpellier wastewater

Researchers at The French National Centre for Scientific Research have identified a recent increase in the amount of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA at the main wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) of the Montpellier metropolitan area.

12 Jul 2020

Global government COVID-19 interventions - no one-fits-all solution exists

A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in July 2020 shows that some less intrusive NPIs are better than total lockdown. This may help to shape future measures should repeated waves of the pandemic occur.

12 Jul 2020

Study finds link between mental imagery and vision

Medical University of South Carolina researchers report in Current Biology that the brain uses similar visual areas for mental imagery and vision, but it uses low-level visual areas less precisely with mental imagery than with vision.

12 Jul 2020

Researchers develop new approach to assess changes in tumor microenvironment

Research has shown that the tumor microenvironment (TME) can help cancers grow and evade the immune response. The TME has even been shown to inhibit cellular immunotherapy, a novel form of treatment in which the cells of a patient's immune system are re-engineered in the lab to attack cancer cells.

12 Jul 2020

Working memory plays key role in social distancing compliance during COVID-19

Whether you decided to engage in social distancing in the early stages of COVID-19 depended on how much information your working memory could hold.

12 Jul 2020

New study to examine COVID-19's impact on the mental health of older adults

Rates of depression and stress have increased among the general population since the COVID-19 pandemic began. However, we know little about the current state of mental health of older adults (65+), who are at a higher risk for illness and death due to infection, and account for more than 95% of COVID-19 deaths in Ontario.

12 Jul 2020

Face blindness may arise from deficits beyond visual perception

The ability to recognize faces is a complex neurocognitive skill with important social implications. The disorder, which, according to some estimates, affects more than 2 percent of the population, can lead to isolation and anxiety and impair personal and work relationships.

12 Jul 2020

Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis reveals patients' immune responses to severe COVID-19

A new single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of more than 59,000 cells from three different patient cohorts provides a detailed look at patients' immune responses to severe cases of COVID-19.

12 Jul 2020

Gender bias may be decreasing in evaluating surgical residency faculty members

In the male-dominated field of surgery, female faculty of training programs tend to receive lower scores than male faculty on their teaching evaluations, which are important for career advancement, past research has found.

12 Jul 2020

Study documents intrauterine transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy

A baby girl in Texas - born prematurely to a mother with COVID-19 - is the strongest evidence to date that intrauterine (in the womb) transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can occur, reports The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, the official journal of The European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases.

12 Jul 2020

Aerosol boxes increase healthcare workers' exposure to COVID-19

A new study shows that certain aerosol boxes of a similar type to those that have been manufactured and used in hospitals in the UK and around the world in order to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 can actually increase exposure to airborne particles that carry the virus, and thus casts doubt on their usefulness.

12 Jul 2020

COVID-19-associated stroke patients have higher risk for severe disability and death

Acute ischemic strokes (AIS) associated with COVID-19 are more severe, lead to worse functional outcomes and are associated with higher mortality , according to new research published yesterday in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.

12 Jul 2020

Analyzing individual anatomy of nasolabial triangle helps in safety planning of plastic surgeries

Researchers from the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine together with colleagues from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, University of Munich and Sechenov University used computed tomography to analyze the individual anatomy of the nasolabial triangle.

12 Jul 2020

Medical Research News

Parent-based intervention helps reboot healthy eating habits in child cancer survivors

Breakthrough discovery could lead to ‘kinder’ treatments for childhood bone cancer

South Carolina reports first cases of coronavirus-related pediatric inflammatory syndrome

Researchers develop COVID-19 mortality risk calculator

Dysfunctional T cells present at high levels in severe COVID-19

No unique viral sequences found in pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2

Digestive manifestations common but mild among hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Increasing level of SARS-CoV-2 detected in Montpellier wastewater

Global government COVID-19 interventions - no one-fits-all solution exists

Study finds link between mental imagery and vision

Researchers develop new approach to assess changes in tumor microenvironment

Working memory plays key role in social distancing compliance during COVID-19

New study to examine COVID-19's impact on the mental health of older adults

Face blindness may arise from deficits beyond visual perception

Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis reveals patients' immune responses to severe COVID-19

Gender bias may be decreasing in evaluating surgical residency faculty members

Study documents intrauterine transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy

Aerosol boxes increase healthcare workers' exposure to COVID-19

COVID-19-associated stroke patients have higher risk for severe disability and death

Analyzing individual anatomy of nasolabial triangle helps in safety planning of plastic surgeries

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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