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Patients with severe COVID-19 have antibodies blocking body's important defense mechanisms

Persons with critical corona-disease may have antibodies blocking the body´s most important defence mechanisms.

25 Sep 2020

M-CUBE aims to take MRI technology to the next level

It is hard to see inside the human body, but because it is vital for diagnosing certain illnesses, several techniques have been developed and perfected over the last century.

25 Sep 2020

ZwickRoell Supports Testing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Primary Packaging for COVID-19 Vaccines

COVID-19 has a big impact on our daily lives and has changed the landscape of the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

From ZwickRoell 25 Sep 2020

Melt Flow Testing Supports the Fight Against Covid-19

ZwickRoell is proud to support the production of PPE through easy-to-use and reliable testing instruments.

From ZwickRoell 25 Sep 2020

Researchers advance novel compounds to help treat C. difficile infection

Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, is the leading cause of health care-associated infection in the U.S.

25 Sep 2020

Study sheds new light on the role of Y chromosome genes

New light is being shed on a little-known role of Y chromosome genes, specific to males, that could explain why men suffer differently than women from various diseases, including Covid-19.

25 Sep 2020

Brain imaging analyses can reveal wounds of childhood trauma

Being traumatized can cause what are known as dissociative symptoms--such as experiencing amnesia, an out-of-body experience, feeling emotionally numb--which may help people cope. Experiencing these symptoms intensely or for a long time, however, can negatively impact an individual's ability to function.

25 Sep 2020

Study examines the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on health care disparities

A new Viewpoint piece published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines the ways in which COVID-19 disproportionately impacts historically disadvantaged communities of color in the United States, and how baseline inequalities in our health system are amplified by the pandemic.

25 Sep 2020

Conflict, climate instability, and COVID-19 are affecting the health of women and children

Fragile gains made to advance women and children's health are threatened by conflict, the climate crisis and COVID-19, according to a new report from Every Woman Every Child.

25 Sep 2020

Emergency departments of hospitals generate significant amounts of harmful waste

Emergency departments of hospitals generate significant amounts of environmentally harmful waste which could be reduced through basic changes to disposal policies and practices, while producing lower operating costs, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found.

25 Sep 2020

Study compares homicide rates involving firearms among various age groups

In the United States, individual state laws barring 18- to 20-year-olds from buying or possessing a handgun make little difference in the rate of homicides involving a gun by people in that age group, a new University of Washington study has found.

25 Sep 2020

D614G mutation now the dominant variant in the global COVID-19 pandemic

Now, a new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in September 2020 shows that a significant variant characterized by the D614G mutation has higher infectivity, which may account for its rapid rise to the dominant position in all regions where it has emerged.

25 Sep 2020

Study elucidates the developmental trajectory of self-esteem in Japan

Self-esteem does not remain constant through life, but changes as a person develops. A large number of studies conducted on this topic, mainly in the United States, have shown that self-esteem is high in childhood, declines in adolescence, but then continues to increase throughout adulthood, peaking in the 50s and 60s, and declining thereafter.

25 Sep 2020

New strategic collaboration to accelerate treatments for unmet medical needs in oncology

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., today announced a three-year strategic collaboration to accelerate the development of treatments for significant unmet medical needs in oncology, including patients with brain metastases and those with cancers refractory to available therapies.

25 Sep 2020

Social inequities in Black and South Asian immigrants increase risk of severe COVID-19 infection

Black, South Asian and Aboriginal populations from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds in Canada are nearly four times more likely to have three or more medical conditions that have been identified as risk factors for severe illness from COVID-19.

25 Sep 2020

Investigators assess the experience of using test-based protocol in infected health care workers

One of the of the most important questions in managing a hospital's response to the COVID-19 pandemic is determining when healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 can return to the job.

25 Sep 2020

Study: Carriers of genetic mutations have greater risk of illness and death from COVID-19

Tel Aviv University researchers suggest that carriers of the genetic mutations PiZ and PiS are at high risk for severe illness and even death from COVID-19. These mutations lead to deficiency in the alpha1-antitrypsin protein, which protects lung tissues from damage in case of severe infections.

25 Sep 2020

New suite of human blood biomarkers can improve stroke diagnosis

An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University have uncovered a new suite of human blood biomarkers which could someday help emergency clinicians quickly recognize whether someone is experiencing a stroke with a simple blood test.

25 Sep 2020

TL1A and its receptor could reduce fibrosis and tissue remodeling in patients with severe lung disease

Your lungs and airways need to be stretchy, sort of like balloons. Take a big breath, and they'll open right up.

25 Sep 2020

About 10% patients with severe disease create auto-antibodies that attack the immune system

People infected by the novel coronavirus can have symptoms that range from mild to deadly. Now, two new analyses suggest that some life-threatening cases can be traced to weak spots in patients' immune systems.

25 Sep 2020

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Patients with severe COVID-19 have antibodies blocking body's important defense mechanisms

M-CUBE aims to take MRI technology to the next level

ZwickRoell Supports Testing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Primary Packaging for COVID-19 Vaccines

Melt Flow Testing Supports the Fight Against Covid-19

Researchers advance novel compounds to help treat C. difficile infection

Study sheds new light on the role of Y chromosome genes

Brain imaging analyses can reveal wounds of childhood trauma

Study examines the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on health care disparities

Conflict, climate instability, and COVID-19 are affecting the health of women and children

Emergency departments of hospitals generate significant amounts of harmful waste

Study compares homicide rates involving firearms among various age groups

D614G mutation now the dominant variant in the global COVID-19 pandemic

Study elucidates the developmental trajectory of self-esteem in Japan

New strategic collaboration to accelerate treatments for unmet medical needs in oncology

Social inequities in Black and South Asian immigrants increase risk of severe COVID-19 infection

Investigators assess the experience of using test-based protocol in infected health care workers

Study: Carriers of genetic mutations have greater risk of illness and death from COVID-19

New suite of human blood biomarkers can improve stroke diagnosis

TL1A and its receptor could reduce fibrosis and tissue remodeling in patients with severe lung disease

About 10% patients with severe disease create auto-antibodies that attack the immune system

Discovering a molecule that could replicate SARS-CoV-2

Providing Personalized Care for Bleeding Disorders

Delayed immune responses may be responsible for COVID-19 mortality rates

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