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The effectiveness of BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine against infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BA.4/5

Researchers evaluated the vaccine effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech’s BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.4/5.

27 Oct 2022

What is the association between regular physical activity and vaccination against COVID-19 among healthcare workers?

Researchers assessed the association between daily physical activity and COVID-19 vaccination among HCWs.

27 Oct 2022

Montana switches gears to try to bargain for lower health care costs for employees

Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has saved the state millions of dollars and become a model for health plans nationwide.

27 Oct 2022

Some healthcare workers vaccinated against COVID-19 show unexpectedly low responses to immunizations

A subset of healthcare workers vaccinated against COVID-19 had unexpectedly low responses to the immunizations, according to Cedars-Sinai investigators.

27 Oct 2022

New studies point to a broadly applicable treatment for neurodegenerative diseases

Two new studies from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis support development of a broadly applicable treatment for neurodegenerative diseases that targets a molecule that serves as the central executioner in the death of axons, the wiring of the nervous system.

26 Oct 2022

Autistic people are more vulnerable to mental health difficulties during pregnancy

Autistic people are more vulnerable to depression and anxiety during pregnancy, according to new research from the University of Cambridge.

26 Oct 2022

Autistic women are vulnerable to mental illness, study shows

Autistic young men and women are more affected by psychiatric conditions and have an increased risk of being hospitalized as a result of their mental illness compared with non-autistic people.

26 Oct 2022

What parents need to know about prenatal tests | BGI Perspectives

The birth of every new life is to be celebrated! Expecting parents often advised by doctors from the department of gynecology and obstetrics to consider noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPT).

From BGI Genomics 26 Oct 2022

One Medicine: how human and veterinary medicine can benefit each other

News-Medical speaks to Professor Roberto La Ragione, Chair of Trustees at Humanimal Trust, about the concept of One Medicine and how human and veterinary medicine can collaborate, share knowledge, and initiate research for the benefit of both humans and animals.

26 Oct 2022

Telehealth follow-up after emergency department visit associated with repeat ED encounters and hospitalizations

Telehealth follow-up consultations following an emergency department visit were associated with 28 more repeat ED encounters and nearly 11 more return hospital admissions per 1000 patients compared with in-person follow-ups, UCLA research suggests.

26 Oct 2022

What is the association of self-reported post-vaccination symptoms with anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibody response?

Researchers investigated the association of symptoms after COVID-19 vaccination with antibody responses against SARS-CoV-2.

26 Oct 2022

25 years on, varicella vaccination reports impressive success in the USA

New research suggests that 25 years on, varicella vaccination continues to report impressive success in the USA.

26 Oct 2022

Study uses compartmental modeling to test the efficiency of sentinel surveillance for developing public COVID-19 mitigation policies

Researchers used a stochastic compartmental model of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission to examine various sentinel surveillance indicators and determine the minimal sampling effort required for a reliable alert indicating a one-step increase in transmission rate.

26 Oct 2022

$38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug

Dr. Josie Tenore and Paul Hinds were introduced by a mutual friend in 2017 and hadn't been going out long when she laid down the law: He had to get a physical.

26 Oct 2022

A review of emerging pediatric respiratory viruses

Respiratory viruses continue to be a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality.

26 Oct 2022

RIT professor receives grant to investigate new therapeutic approaches for scleroderma

More collagen in the human body is not always good, and Karin Wuertz-Kozak is investigating how disease progresses because of the increase in this important protein.

25 Oct 2022

New approach to immunotherapy provokes a robust anti-tumor immune response in preclinical models

A new approach to cancer immunotherapy that uses one type of immune cell to kill another - rather than directly attacking the cancer - provokes a robust anti-tumor immune response that shrinks ovarian, lung, and pancreatic tumors in preclinical disease models, according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

25 Oct 2022

Minorities with common form of lung cancer face longer wait times for receiving radiation therapy

A new study has revealed significant racial disparities in how quickly minorities with the most common form of lung cancer receive potentially lifesaving radiation therapy compared with their white counterparts.

25 Oct 2022

New type of antibiotic effectively kills hard-to-fight bacteria

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a growing threat to human health. In an article published in the scientific journal PNAS, Umeå researcher Fredrik Almqvist and his colleagues present a new type of antibiotic that effectively kills hard-to-fight bacteria.

25 Oct 2022

Ivermectin is ineffective in non-severe COVID-19 patients according to new study

A new study evaluated the effect of ivermectin on time to recovery from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients with mild to moderate disease.

25 Oct 2022

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

The effectiveness of BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine against infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BA.4/5

What is the association between regular physical activity and vaccination against COVID-19 among healthcare workers?

Montana switches gears to try to bargain for lower health care costs for employees

Some healthcare workers vaccinated against COVID-19 show unexpectedly low responses to immunizations

New studies point to a broadly applicable treatment for neurodegenerative diseases

Autistic people are more vulnerable to mental health difficulties during pregnancy

Autistic women are vulnerable to mental illness, study shows

What parents need to know about prenatal tests | BGI Perspectives

One Medicine: how human and veterinary medicine can benefit each other

Telehealth follow-up after emergency department visit associated with repeat ED encounters and hospitalizations

What is the association of self-reported post-vaccination symptoms with anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibody response?

25 years on, varicella vaccination reports impressive success in the USA

Study uses compartmental modeling to test the efficiency of sentinel surveillance for developing public COVID-19 mitigation policies

$38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug

A review of emerging pediatric respiratory viruses

RIT professor receives grant to investigate new therapeutic approaches for scleroderma

New approach to immunotherapy provokes a robust anti-tumor immune response in preclinical models

Minorities with common form of lung cancer face longer wait times for receiving radiation therapy

New type of antibiotic effectively kills hard-to-fight bacteria

Ivermectin is ineffective in non-severe COVID-19 patients according to new study

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