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Study uncovers toxic air pollutant mixtures linked to poor childhood asthma outcomes

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a novel machine learning algorithm and used it to identify previously unknown mixtures of toxic air pollutants that appear to be linked to poor asthma outcomes later in a child's life.

8 Oct 2021

NIH awards more than $8 million to support seven high-risk, high-reward projects at Penn Medicine

The National Institutes of Health has awarded grants to researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania to support "highly innovative and broadly impactful" biomedical science through the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. The seven awards total approximately $8.2 million over five years,

8 Oct 2021

WHO recommends widespread use of malaria vaccine for children living in regions at risk

The World Health Organization is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission.

8 Oct 2021

Vaccine clinical trial participants to be offered additional jabs

Vaccine clinical trial participants are to be offered the option to get additional vaccine doses from next week, to ensure they can travel abroad to countries which currently only accept vaccination records with approved for deployment COVID-19 vaccinations.

8 Oct 2021

New method could provide in-depth understanding of the brain's visual sensory thalamus

Neuroscientists at Technische Universität Dresden discovered a novel, non-invasive imaging-based method to investigate the visual sensory thalamus, an important structure of the human brain and point of origin of visual difficulties in diseases such as dyslexia and glaucoma.

8 Oct 2021

Majority of family violence-related injuries in youth happen at home

Researchers with Johns Hopkins Children's Center found that more than half of all violence-related injuries in youth treated in the emergency department were due to family violence, including child maltreatment and physical fighting. Most events involved parents or guardians.

8 Oct 2021

New risk prediction model for breast cancer in U.S. Black women developed

The lack of a breast cancer risk prediction model tailored to Black women represents a critical gap, given that U.S. Black women, on average, are more likely to have breast cancer at earlier ages and with a worse prognosis than White women.

8 Oct 2021

Researchers use control systems engineering tools to personalize fitness tracker messages

As the popularity of fitness trackers has increased, so have the opportunities to use such devices to not only track fitness goals but also increase the motivation to meet those goals.

8 Oct 2021

Tracking ADHD symptoms, behavior in people with intellectual disability using a smartphone app

A new study by the UC Davis MIND Institute's David Hessl will test whether a smartphone-based app may help improve the accuracy of data in some clinical trials involving individuals with intellectual disability.

8 Oct 2021

More severe SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with greater risk of preterm birth

Researchers at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health's Perinatology Research Branch in Detroit have discovered that the more severely infected with COVID-19 a mother is, the more likely she is to experience preterm birth.

8 Oct 2021

Bariatric surgery rates increased after Medicaid expansion, study shows

Following the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion, access to bariatric surgery as a treatment for obesity increased by 31% annually for lower-income Medicaid-covered and uninsured white adults age 26 to 64 but not for Hispanic and Black adults, according to research conducted by scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

8 Oct 2021

Severe influenza outbreak expected in the United States after relaxation of COVID control measures

New research warns that the United States could experience a severe influenza outbreak after public health measures like face masks and social distancing are lifted.

8 Oct 2021

Genetics can influence a person's response to Alzheimer's disease pathology, research suggests

A recently released paper from the Department of Physiology and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine suggests that your genetics can influence your response to Alzheimer's disease pathology.

8 Oct 2021

Study explores the relationship between cytokines in saliva and COVID-19 severity

Penn State College of Medicine researchers are involved in an ongoing study looking at the relationship between proteins called cytokines in saliva and COVID-19 infection to help predict the severity of infection.

8 Oct 2021

Wyss Center to lead a collaborative project aimed at improving brain cancer treatment

The Wyss Center announced today that it will lead a collaborative project, as part of Wellcome Leap's Delta Tissue Program, to improve understanding of the brain cancer glioblastoma (GBM) and help develop more effective therapies.

8 Oct 2021

Mental health disorders in adolescents linked to long-term exclusion from education, labor market

Adolescents who had received a mental health disorder diagnosis were often excluded from the labor market and education as young adults.

8 Oct 2021

NIH grant to benefit researcher's effort in developing a new method for detecting breast cancer

Electrical engineering professor Magda El-Shenawee's effort to develop a more accurate and less-invasive method for detecting breast cancer will benefit from a $424,545 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

8 Oct 2021

New Maternal and Child Health Research Institute launched to improve national health in Singapore

The SingHealth Duke-NUS Maternal and Child Health Research Institute was launched at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) today by Masagos Zulkifli, Singapore's Minister for Social and Family Development and Second Minister for Health.

8 Oct 2021

Study aims to find ways of identifying children at risk for severe COVID-19

An ongoing study is looking at the relationship between cytokines in saliva and COVID-19 infection to help predict the severity of infection.

8 Oct 2021

Characterization of circulating neutrophils from hospitalized COVID-19 patients

A new preprint deals with the characterization of neutrophil phenotypes in an attempt to provide biomarkers that can predict severe disease in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

8 Oct 2021

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Study uncovers toxic air pollutant mixtures linked to poor childhood asthma outcomes

NIH awards more than $8 million to support seven high-risk, high-reward projects at Penn Medicine

WHO recommends widespread use of malaria vaccine for children living in regions at risk

Vaccine clinical trial participants to be offered additional jabs

New method could provide in-depth understanding of the brain's visual sensory thalamus

Majority of family violence-related injuries in youth happen at home

New risk prediction model for breast cancer in U.S. Black women developed

Researchers use control systems engineering tools to personalize fitness tracker messages

Tracking ADHD symptoms, behavior in people with intellectual disability using a smartphone app

More severe SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with greater risk of preterm birth

Bariatric surgery rates increased after Medicaid expansion, study shows

Severe influenza outbreak expected in the United States after relaxation of COVID control measures

Genetics can influence a person's response to Alzheimer's disease pathology, research suggests

Study explores the relationship between cytokines in saliva and COVID-19 severity

Wyss Center to lead a collaborative project aimed at improving brain cancer treatment

Mental health disorders in adolescents linked to long-term exclusion from education, labor market

NIH grant to benefit researcher's effort in developing a new method for detecting breast cancer

New Maternal and Child Health Research Institute launched to improve national health in Singapore

Study aims to find ways of identifying children at risk for severe COVID-19

Characterization of circulating neutrophils from hospitalized COVID-19 patients

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