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NYU Langone Health broadens access to high-quality primary and specialty care

NYU Langone Health continues to broaden access to high-quality primary and specialty care with recent expansions in Long Island, Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.

5 Oct 2021

Three U of U Health researchers win the 2021 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

The National Institutes of Health has awarded grants to three University of Utah Health scientists through its competitive High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR) program that funds highly innovative and unusually impactful biomedical or behavioral research proposed by extraordinarily creative scientists.

5 Oct 2021

Two meters physical distancing is not enough without masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19

To prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors, the two metres physical distancing guideline is not enough without masks, according to researchers from Quebec, Illinois, and Texas.

5 Oct 2021

Urban older women who participated in an exercise intervention were healthier than non-participants

Urban participants in an exercise intervention for older women in Kuopio, eastern Finland, were healthier and had better functional capability at baseline than non-participants and uninvited rural women, according to new findings from the Kuopio Fall Prevention Study.

5 Oct 2021

New low-cost ventilator could address the shortage of ventilators in developing countries

A new low-cost ventilator design invented during COVID-19 could address the global shortage of ventilators for other respiratory diseases.

5 Oct 2021

Therapeutic smart textiles can make it easier for older people to manage long-term pain

Long-term pain is perhaps the single most important factor that reduces quality of life for older people. New technology based on therapeutic smart textiles can make it easier to manage pain.

5 Oct 2021

Bone Conduction Kit may enable children and their parents to manage glue ear effectively at home

A wireless kit, comprising headphones, a microphone, and an app might be a cheap alternative to the usual treatment of the common temporary hearing loss in kids, popularly known as 'glue ear,' finds a small study, published in the online journal BMJ Innovations.

5 Oct 2021

Landmark research project to host a trial of frame running training for kids with cerebral palsy

A landmark research project led by The University of Queensland is aiming to improve the cardiovascular health of young children with cerebral palsy (CP) by trialing a new running program.

5 Oct 2021

Fertility treatment compromised in women with undiagnosed endometriosis

Women with undiagnosed endometriosis will have difficulty falling pregnant without IVF, according to a University of Queensland study.

5 Oct 2021

Anti-nucleocapsid SARS-Cov-2 antibodies wane over time in long-term care facilities

A new study shows that up to a third of survivors in LTCFs were infected during the first year after infection.

5 Oct 2021

SARS-CoV-2 beta variant elicits variant specific and cross-reactive antibodies

One recent study assessed the serum of Beta variant infected patients to determine whether major non-VOC antibodies could neutralize this virus.

5 Oct 2021

$35.1 million US grant focuses on investigating sleep disorder linked to neurodegeneration

People with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder act out their dreams. While sleeping safely in bed, for example, they might throw up their arms to catch an imaginary ball, or try to run from an illusory assailant.

5 Oct 2021

Emergence and evolution of endemic and emerging coronavirus diversity in humans and animals

A study aimed to understand the evolutionary and epidemiology dynamics of coronavirus diversity in animals, humans, and wildlife at ecosystem interfaces.

5 Oct 2021

Connection between aerosol transmission and COVID-19 dynamics

A simulation study explored event-level overdispersion of SARS-Cov-2 spread, utilizing real-world inputs from a large number of social gatherings.

5 Oct 2021

The role of ZBP1 in promoting SARS-CoV-2-induced cytokine expression

A new study reported that the ZBP1-induced inflammatory signaling pathway is dependent on ubiquitination and RIPK3’s scaffolding ability, independent of cell death.

5 Oct 2021

Anti-CD20 therapy patients can develop immune responses after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

A new systematic review and meta-analysis focused on the humoral and cell-mediated immune responses after COVID-19 vaccination in patients undergoing anti-CD20 antibodies treatment.

5 Oct 2021

Managing metabolic disease through time-restricted eating

In this interview, News-Medical speaks to Dr. Satchin Panda about his latest research into time-restricted eating and how it can be used to manage metabolic diseases.

5 Oct 2021

Depressed seroconversion in immunocompromised COVID-19 vaccine recipients

Researchers from the University of Singapore have reviewed the data in post-vaccinated immunocompromised patients to examine the effectiveness of these vaccines in these patients.

5 Oct 2021

How accurate is COVID-19 modeling?

Researchers from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne have been using this to investigate how accurate COVID-19 modelling has been.

5 Oct 2021

The pandemic forced my transgender wife to fight our insurer over hormones

For the past eight years, my wife, Ky Hamilton, has undergone gender-affirming hormone therapy. As a transgender woman, she injects Depo-Estradiol liquid estrogen into her thigh once a week.

5 Oct 2021

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NYU Langone Health broadens access to high-quality primary and specialty care

Three U of U Health researchers win the 2021 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Two meters physical distancing is not enough without masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Urban older women who participated in an exercise intervention were healthier than non-participants

New low-cost ventilator could address the shortage of ventilators in developing countries

Therapeutic smart textiles can make it easier for older people to manage long-term pain

Bone Conduction Kit may enable children and their parents to manage glue ear effectively at home

Landmark research project to host a trial of frame running training for kids with cerebral palsy

Fertility treatment compromised in women with undiagnosed endometriosis

Anti-nucleocapsid SARS-Cov-2 antibodies wane over time in long-term care facilities

SARS-CoV-2 beta variant elicits variant specific and cross-reactive antibodies

$35.1 million US grant focuses on investigating sleep disorder linked to neurodegeneration

Emergence and evolution of endemic and emerging coronavirus diversity in humans and animals

Connection between aerosol transmission and COVID-19 dynamics

The role of ZBP1 in promoting SARS-CoV-2-induced cytokine expression

Anti-CD20 therapy patients can develop immune responses after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

Managing metabolic disease through time-restricted eating

Depressed seroconversion in immunocompromised COVID-19 vaccine recipients

How accurate is COVID-19 modeling?

The pandemic forced my transgender wife to fight our insurer over hormones

The importance of ketones from a clinical and medical perspective

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