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Carbon monoxide foam in the fight against inflammation

News-Medical speaks to Leo Otterbein about a novel way to deliver carbon monoxide to the body while bypassing its potentially hazardous effects.

2 Aug 2022

Ultra-precise method identifies age-related changes in gamma oscillations in children's auditory cortex

Researchers from the HSE Center for Language and Brain have identified previously unknown age-related changes in brain activity during the perception of auditory information in a group of children aged 7–12 years.

1 Aug 2022

Black patients with severe heart failure have a lower chance of getting LVAD care

Black people and women with severe heart failure who might be good candidates for surgery to implant a heart-assisting device have a lower chance of actually getting that operation than white patients, or male patients, a new study finds.

1 Aug 2022

UIC researchers receive $3.3 million to study telehealth behavioral interventions

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have been awarded approximately $3.3 million from the National Institute on Aging to study telehealth behavioral interventions among adults 50 and older with excess weight and cardiometabolic risk factors.

1 Aug 2022

Reduced severity of COVID-19 in pregnant women during the Omicron wave

A new study assesses the clinical outcomes of COVID-19 in pregnant women to determine whether Omicron and vaccination status impacted disease severity.

1 Aug 2022

Symptoms of monkeypox differ from previous outbreaks

A new study describes the clinical characteristics of monkeypox infections during the current outbreak.

1 Aug 2022

Eliminating patients' race and ethnicity information is not the right way to address inequitable outcomes

Algorithms designed to guide medical care can contribute to racially inequitable outcomes, but eliminating information about patient race and ethnicity as an input to algorithms is not the right way to address the issue, according to new analysis from the RAND Corporation.

1 Aug 2022

Study suggests possible benefit from melatonin in COVID-19

A new study discusses the utility of vitamin C and melatonin as potentially therapeutic and capable of preventing acute lung injury in COVID-19.

1 Aug 2022

CDC study describes safety profile of second mRNA COVID booster

The CDC investigates the safety profile of a fourth dose of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines in people aged 50 years and older.

1 Aug 2022

Novel subset of immune cells confers fast-acting and lasting protection against ischemic stroke

A unique subset of white blood cells confers fast-acting and lasting protection against ischemic stroke in mice, University of Pittsburgh neurologists and immunologists reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation today.

1 Aug 2022

Gut microbe response to digestion may help explain cardiovascular disease risk related with red meat intake

Chemicals produced in the digestive tract by gut microbes after eating red meat may help explain part of the higher risk of cardiovascular disease associated with red meat consumption, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's peer-reviewed journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.

1 Aug 2022

Alliance MCED Biobank Study may provide greater understanding of how to detect multiple cancers

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, in partnership with the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the opening of a new study for participant enrollment that aims to obtain a reference set of blood samples from newly diagnosed patients with cancer and healthy individuals without cancer to include in a future study to assess the utility of early cancer detection blood tests.

1 Aug 2022

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Carbon monoxide foam in the fight against inflammation

Ultra-precise method identifies age-related changes in gamma oscillations in children's auditory cortex

Black patients with severe heart failure have a lower chance of getting LVAD care

UIC researchers receive $3.3 million to study telehealth behavioral interventions

Reduced severity of COVID-19 in pregnant women during the Omicron wave

Symptoms of monkeypox differ from previous outbreaks

Eliminating patients' race and ethnicity information is not the right way to address inequitable outcomes

Study suggests possible benefit from melatonin in COVID-19

CDC study describes safety profile of second mRNA COVID booster

Novel subset of immune cells confers fast-acting and lasting protection against ischemic stroke

Gut microbe response to digestion may help explain cardiovascular disease risk related with red meat intake

Alliance MCED Biobank Study may provide greater understanding of how to detect multiple cancers

Nasal epithelium of children inhibits infection and replication of ancestral SARS-CoV-2

Using digital devices could help improve memory skills, study finds

UCR researcher employs Actor-Network Theory to open black boxes in breast cancer survivorship care

How does COVID-19 affect sexual and bladder functions in men?

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine provides first-hand account of practicing medicine in wartime Ukraine

New smartphone app found to be successful in helping UK veterans to reduce alcohol consumption

Parents set the tone for healthy technology use among teens, study says

CDC announces winners of the 2022 REACH Lark Galloway-Gilliam Award for Advancing Health Equity Challenge

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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