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Michigan researchers receive $26 million NIH grant to study environmental impacts on child health

Backed by a $26 million federal grant, researchers at three Michigan universities, a leading health care system, and a state agency will continue a long-term study of how exposure to environmental factors during pregnancy and early childhood can impact health for a lifetime.

1 Sep 2023

Scientists convert former barn into cutting-edge animal behavior lab

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have converted a former barn into a cutting-edge technology lab for complex behavioral analysis

1 Sep 2023

SparkMaster 2: New software automates analysis of calcium release events

A team of UC Davis and University of Oxford researchers have developed an innovative tool: SparkMaster 2.

1 Sep 2023

Scientists reclassify 200 rare immune system disorders using network-based approach

Scientists at CeMM, Max Perutz Labs, and St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute in Vienna have achieved a significant advancement in the research of rare immune system disorders.

1 Sep 2023

Study sheds light on immune cells' ability to collectively migrate through complex environments

When fighting disease, our immune cells need to reach their target quickly. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) now discovered that immune cells actively generate their own guidance system to navigate through complex environments.

1 Sep 2023

Disparities in COVID-19 outcomes persist for American Indians/Alaska Natives

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept into New Mexico in the spring of 2020, seriously ill patients from all over the state were brought to The University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, where many wound up in intensive care, breathing with the help of ventilators.

1 Sep 2023

Black people still experience highest burden of air pollution-related deaths

Health benefits that have resulted from reductions in fine particulate air pollution aren't distributed equally among populations in the U.S., a new Yale-led study finds.

1 Sep 2023

Exposures to biological sources linked to increased risk of chemical intolerance

What initiates chemical intolerance (CI)? In a newly released survey of thousands of U.S. adults, respondents most frequently cited exposures to biological sources, such as mold and algae "blooms," and/or fossil fuels, their combustion products and synthetic chemical derivatives such as pesticides, plastics and persistent organic pollutants.

1 Sep 2023

New research could help improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy for people with brain tumors

A study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center sheds new light on why tumors that have spread to the brain from other parts of the body respond to immunotherapy while glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer that originates in the brain, does not.

1 Sep 2023

Integrating HIV and addiction treatment improves outcomes for people who inject drugs in Russia

New research from Boston Medical Center found that providing pragmatic support, specifically rapid access to antiretroviral therapy, pharmacotherapy for opioid use disorder, and strengths-based case management, improved treatment outcomes for people with HIV who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1 Sep 2023

CHEER receives $6M CDC grant to improve breastfeeding rates in Boston

The Center for Health Equity, Education, and Research (CHEER) at Boston Medical Center has received a $6,000,000 cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

1 Sep 2023

Amsterdam UMC-led project drives innovation in healthcare with AI and natural language processing

80% of all patient data is unstructured. Notes from a conversation with a GP, the evaluation of a specialist in a university medical centre or even a recommendation from a pharmacist.

1 Sep 2023

Biden administration proposes new standards to boost nursing home staffing

The nation's most thinly staffed nursing homes would be required to hire more workers under new rules proposed on Friday by the Biden administration, the greatest change to federal nursing home regulations in three decades.

1 Sep 2023

Combination of cediranib and lenalidomide does not improve outcomes in advanced thyroid cancer

Results of a multicenter phase II clinical trial led by the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center show that adding an immunomodulatory agent to treatment with the targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) cediranib did not make a difference in outcomes for treating patients with an advanced form of thyroid cancer that develops from thyroid follicular cells called differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).

1 Sep 2023

International consortium to study link between RSV infection and chronic respiratory tract diseases

UMC Utrecht will lead an international consortium that will try to answer a key question that's in the mind of many pediatricians, infectiologists, pulmonologists and other health professionals: "Why are children that had an RSV infection in early childhood at increased risk of developing asthma later in life?"

1 Sep 2023

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Michigan researchers receive $26 million NIH grant to study environmental impacts on child health

Scientists convert former barn into cutting-edge animal behavior lab

SparkMaster 2: New software automates analysis of calcium release events

Scientists reclassify 200 rare immune system disorders using network-based approach

Study sheds light on immune cells' ability to collectively migrate through complex environments

Disparities in COVID-19 outcomes persist for American Indians/Alaska Natives

Black people still experience highest burden of air pollution-related deaths

Exposures to biological sources linked to increased risk of chemical intolerance

New research could help improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy for people with brain tumors

Integrating HIV and addiction treatment improves outcomes for people who inject drugs in Russia

CHEER receives $6M CDC grant to improve breastfeeding rates in Boston

Amsterdam UMC-led project drives innovation in healthcare with AI and natural language processing

Biden administration proposes new standards to boost nursing home staffing

Combination of cediranib and lenalidomide does not improve outcomes in advanced thyroid cancer

International consortium to study link between RSV infection and chronic respiratory tract diseases

Weighted lottery helps ensure equitable allocation of scarce COVID-19 medication

Mice study helps understand how DiNP affects pregnancy

Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic can help confront future epidemics

Heart protective effect of red blood cells is enhanced by nitrate-rich vegetable diet

People in precarious employment more likely to die early, study says

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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