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Concussions do not affect IQ in children, study finds

The angst parents feel when their children sustain injuries is surely one of the universal conditions of parenthood. That anxiety is heightened greatly when those injuries involve concussions.

17 Jul 2023

Three-pronged combination immunotherapy shows promise for pancreatic cancer patients

Giving patients with operable pancreatic cancers a three-pronged combination immunotherapy treatment consisting of the pancreatic cancer vaccine GVAX, the immune checkpoint therapy nivolumab and urelemab, an anti-CD137 agonist antibody treatment, is safe, it increases the amount of cancer-killing immune system T cells in the tumors and it appears effective when given two weeks prior to cancer-removal surgery, according to new research directed by Johns Hopkins investigators.

17 Jul 2023

Impact of the 2022 European heat wave: Over 60,000 deaths recorded

Researchers estimate mortality due to heat in Europe in the summer of 2022.

17 Jul 2023

Seroepidemiology study suggests EV-A71 vaccine effective in Guangzhou, China

Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is a significant hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) etiology. The inactivated EV-A71 vaccines were approved in China in 2016.

17 Jul 2023

COVID-19 school closures hit poorer districts of Barcelona hardest, study finds

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the educational systems. It is estimated that approximately 1.6 billion children worldwide were affected by school closures, which had a major impact on their learning.

17 Jul 2023

Research shows diagnostic error as a leading cause of death and disability

Improving diagnosis in health care is a moral, professional and public health imperative, according to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.

17 Jul 2023

Are antidrug antibodies reducing the effectiveness of rheumatoid arthritis treatment?

Researchers examined the association between antidrug antibodies and the response to treatments for rheumatoid arthritis.

17 Jul 2023

The infection connection: investigating the impact on dementia risk, neuroimaging reveals

Researchers compared the association between neuroimaging markers of dementia and antibodies to common infection.

17 Jul 2023

Infection-induced cognitive decline: Mechanisms and potential treatments

Biological agents threaten people's life through different ways, one of which lies in the impairment of cognition.

17 Jul 2023

First-ever county-level estimates of Alzheimer's prevalence released at AAIC 2023

The first-ever county-level estimates of the prevalence of people with Alzheimer's dementia — in all 3,142 United States counties — were released today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2023, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and online.

17 Jul 2023

American Heart Association calls for more research on e-cigarettes

Research increasingly reveals health risks of e-cigarette use, and more studies are needed about the long-term impact e-cigarettes may have on the heart and lungs, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published today in the Association's flagship journal Circulation.

17 Jul 2023

New EULAR points-to-consider can help identify people at risk of psoriatic arthritis

The transition from psoriasis to PsA - and the early diagnosis of PsA - is of considerable scientific and clinical interest. People typically have psoriatic skin disease for a decade or more before they begin to experience the joint involvement of PsA.

17 Jul 2023

Omicron subvariant BA.5 can cause more severe disease

Omicron-derived virus variants are currently responsible for most SARS-CoV-2 infections worldwide. Compared to earlier virus variants, Omicron rarely causes severe disease.

17 Jul 2023

What is the relative burden of oncologic and nononcologic mortality among long-term survivors of cancer in the US?

In a recent study, researchers estimated mortality risk for long-term survivors of cancer.

17 Jul 2023

The role of airway epithelium: insights into asthma and COPD pathogenesis

Study discussed how injury and abnormal repair of the airway epithelium drive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma.

17 Jul 2023

Machine learning's potential for rapid LRTI diagnosis

A team of researchers evaluated the use of prediction models in LRTI diagnosis.

17 Jul 2023

New agreement to facilitate genetic diagnosis of hereditary retinal dystrophies

An agreement between the University of Barcelona spin-off DBGen Ocular Genomics and the company Novartis España will enable the genetic identification of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) in affected patients.

17 Jul 2023

New method improves prediction of liver disease progression

A research team from the Department of Medicine III at MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna has conducted a large-scale study showing the important value of repeated liver assessments by a novel method that can significantly improve risk assessment in patients with chronic liver disease.

17 Jul 2023

Exploring the efficacy of topical lidocaine in individuals with chronic neck pain

A team of researchers investigated the efficacy of lidocaine for the treatment of neck pain.

17 Jul 2023

Age and immunity: study highlights challenges and opportunities for vaccine protection

Scientists have evaluated molecular mechanisms responsible for heterogeneous responses to influenza vaccination among older adults.

17 Jul 2023

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Concussions do not affect IQ in children, study finds

Three-pronged combination immunotherapy shows promise for pancreatic cancer patients

Impact of the 2022 European heat wave: Over 60,000 deaths recorded

Seroepidemiology study suggests EV-A71 vaccine effective in Guangzhou, China

COVID-19 school closures hit poorer districts of Barcelona hardest, study finds

Research shows diagnostic error as a leading cause of death and disability

Are antidrug antibodies reducing the effectiveness of rheumatoid arthritis treatment?

The infection connection: investigating the impact on dementia risk, neuroimaging reveals

Infection-induced cognitive decline: Mechanisms and potential treatments

First-ever county-level estimates of Alzheimer's prevalence released at AAIC 2023

American Heart Association calls for more research on e-cigarettes

New EULAR points-to-consider can help identify people at risk of psoriatic arthritis

Omicron subvariant BA.5 can cause more severe disease

What is the relative burden of oncologic and nononcologic mortality among long-term survivors of cancer in the US?

The role of airway epithelium: insights into asthma and COPD pathogenesis

Machine learning's potential for rapid LRTI diagnosis

New agreement to facilitate genetic diagnosis of hereditary retinal dystrophies

New method improves prediction of liver disease progression

Exploring the efficacy of topical lidocaine in individuals with chronic neck pain

Age and immunity: study highlights challenges and opportunities for vaccine protection

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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