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Heart risks associated with artificial sweeteners

In a recent study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers investigated the relationship between the intake of artificial sweeteners and the risk of all cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including cardiometabolic disorders.

11 Sep 2022

Parental BMI and early childhood weight gain predicts increased girth at 5 years

A new study reports a correlation between parental weight and rapid childhood weight gain with increased abdominal fat at five years of age.

11 Sep 2022

Long COVID linked to persistence of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in blood

A new study reports SARS-CoV-2 spike antigen and cytokine levels in a sample of infected individuals, of which a subset had long COVID.

11 Sep 2022

A new monkeypox vaccine is needed to prevent global transmission

In a recent study published in the journal Vaccines, scientists reviewed all relevant literature to find the available vaccines and therapeutics to prevent MPV.

11 Sep 2022

ACTG announces the initiation of trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of monkeypox treatment

The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), the largest global HIV research network, which expanded its focus to conduct research into COVID-19, today announced the initiation of STOMP (Study of Tecovirimat for Human Monkeypox Virus), or A5418, a phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of tecovirimat for the treatment of human monkeypox.

9 Sep 2022

Federal meal programs supported youths’ access to food during COVID school closures

When schools closed during the first year of the pandemic, an immediate and potentially devastating problem surfaced: How would millions of children in struggling families get the school meals many of them depended on?

9 Sep 2022

Novel antifungal medications urgently needed to control COVID-19-associated fungal infections

Every day we inhale thousands of potentially pathogenic fungal spores, but our immune system simply eliminates them.

9 Sep 2022

Weill Cornell Medicine receives $5 million NIH grant for next generation TB research

Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to establish a new multi-institutional center for tuberculosis (TB) research and training the next generation of TB investigators.

9 Sep 2022

New antiviral treatment may limit the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus

By the time you test positive for COVID-19, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has already taken up residence in your respiratory system. With each breath, you expel invisible viral particles into the air - a process known as viral shedding.

9 Sep 2022

Survey: 'Healthy tan' and other myths about sun safety are alive in Europe, other countries

8 in 10 Europeans believe tans are attractive with almost as many (73%) saying tans are healthy, according to a new study presented today at the 31st European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress.

9 Sep 2022

New technology can capture stray ovarian cancer cells from a simple blood test

A new type of technology can capture stray ovarian cancer cells from a simple blood test and successfully predict cancer in people who have a lesion or cyst in the pelvic region, according to a new study by a Wilmot Cancer Institute physician/scientist.

9 Sep 2022

New research project investigates molecular mechanisms underlying NeuroCOVID

Infections with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can trigger both temporary and long-term neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms, severely impacting patients and the wider society.

9 Sep 2022

Residential exposure to petroleum refining linked to stroke rates across the Southern United States

A new study has revealed that exposure to pollutants from petroleum refineries has a strong link to stroke rates across the Southern United States. The results were published today in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters.

9 Sep 2022

Study shows link between childhood bullying and violent offenses in future

Children who bullied others at the age of 8-9 have higher hazard for committing violent offenses by the age of 31. This was shown in a Finnish Nationwide Birth Cohort Study conducted at the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku, Finland.

9 Sep 2022

St. Baldrick's Scholar grant awarded to CU researcher for investigating new drug to treat infant leukemia

As part of its ongoing efforts to eradicate childhood cancers, the St. Baldrick's Foundation has awarded University of Colorado Cancer Center member Kelly Faulk, MD, a St. Baldrick's Scholar grant to investigate a new method for treating infant leukemia.

9 Sep 2022

Kessler Foundation receives grant to continue the long-running "MS Fellowship in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" program

John DeLuca, PhD, senior vice president of research and training at Kessler Foundation, received a five-year, $468,019 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to continue the long-running "MS Fellowship in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" program.

9 Sep 2022

Duke researchers identify chlamydia’s stealthy cloaking device

Chlamydia, the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial infections, evades detection and elimination inside human cells by use of a cloaking device. But Duke University researchers have grasped the hem of that invisibility cloak and now hope they can pull it apart.

9 Sep 2022

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Heart risks associated with artificial sweeteners

Parental BMI and early childhood weight gain predicts increased girth at 5 years

Long COVID linked to persistence of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in blood

A new monkeypox vaccine is needed to prevent global transmission

ACTG announces the initiation of trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of monkeypox treatment

Federal meal programs supported youths’ access to food during COVID school closures

Novel antifungal medications urgently needed to control COVID-19-associated fungal infections

Weill Cornell Medicine receives $5 million NIH grant for next generation TB research

New antiviral treatment may limit the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus

Survey: 'Healthy tan' and other myths about sun safety are alive in Europe, other countries

New technology can capture stray ovarian cancer cells from a simple blood test

New research project investigates molecular mechanisms underlying NeuroCOVID

Residential exposure to petroleum refining linked to stroke rates across the Southern United States

Study shows link between childhood bullying and violent offenses in future

St. Baldrick's Scholar grant awarded to CU researcher for investigating new drug to treat infant leukemia

Kessler Foundation receives grant to continue the long-running "MS Fellowship in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" program

Duke researchers identify chlamydia’s stealthy cloaking device

Phase 3 clinical trial commences to evaluate antiviral for monkeypox

Study: Racial, ethnic minorities in L.A. County more likely to live as far from cardiac rehabilitation facility

Gut microbes can also impact a person's neurological and emotional health, UTSW researcher says

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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

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