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Learn & Lounge helps AYA patients, survivors to connect with peers and get support

Young cancer patients face unique challenges. That's why the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center started an Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology Program in 2020.

6 Aug 2021

Low-cost face masks and AC filters are effective against airborne toxins from algal blooms

Intense blooms of toxic algae are becoming common occurrences along the coast of Florida and elsewhere.

6 Aug 2021

Science academies offer recommendations to improve pandemic preparedness in the future

In the run-up to the summit of the G20 states on October 30 and 31, 2021, in Rome/Italy, the science academies of these countries (Science20 Dialogue), including the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, have published the joint statement "Pandemic preparedness and the role of science".

6 Aug 2021

New study offers insight into how high-risk form of blood cancer can develop in children

In some children with acute myeloid leukemia, cancer cells have the same amount of DNA changes as healthy blood stem cells.

6 Aug 2021

Online training leverages the influence of religion to prevent intimate partner violence

Domestic violence remains a serious and widespread problem in the U.S., particularly for women from racial or ethnic minorities, who experience higher rates of abuse than the national average.

6 Aug 2021

Topical cream shows signs of clinical efficacy in patients with basal cell carcinoma

Remetinostat, a topical cream and first-in-class inhibitor of histone deacetylation, showed signs of clinical efficacy in patients with basal cell carcinoma.

6 Aug 2021

Aducanumab approval for Alzheimer's may provide a proof of concept that can be rapidly improved upon

The recent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of aducanumab – which has the potential to treat Alzheimer's disease – may provide a proof of concept that can be rapidly improved upon, writes Dennis Selkoe in this Perspective.

6 Aug 2021

FDA approves an intravenous medication to treat patients with Pompe disease

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Nexviazyme (avalglucosidase alfa-ngpt) for intravenous infusion to treat patients 1 year of age and older with late-onset Pompe disease.

6 Aug 2021

Déjà vu? Consumers scramble for covid tests in hard-hit areas

Andrea Mosterman, an associate professor of history at the University of New Orleans, was already dismayed that she had to wait three days to secure a covid-19 test at a Walgreens near her home after being in contact with someone who had tested positive.

6 Aug 2021

Uson releases A3 upgrade for Optima vT leak tester

On July 30th, 2021 Uson LP announces the worldwide launch of Optima vT A3 software update 2.13.6.

6 Aug 2021

Pharmacies face extra audit burdens that threaten their existence

The clock was about to strike midnight, and Scott Newman was desperately feeding pages into a scanner, trying to prevent thousands of dollars in prescription payments from turning into a pumpkin.

6 Aug 2021

Hard lessons from a city that tried to privatize public health

If you were growing up in Detroit in the 1970s or '80s, chances are you knew the city's Herman Kiefer public health complex by both sight and reputation.

6 Aug 2021

Clarity on covid count: Pandemic’s toll on seniors extended well beyond nursing homes

As covid-19 resurges across the country, driven by the highly infectious delta variant, experts are extending our understanding of the pandemic's toll on older adults — the age group hit hardest by the pandemic.

6 Aug 2021

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine offers decreased protection six months after second dose, suggests Israeli study

A recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv* determines whether the time elapsed since the second dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine is associated with an increased risk of breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection.

6 Aug 2021

SARS-CoV-2 Beta variant associated with more critical and fatal disease than Alpha, suggests Qatar study

A new study traces the degree to which the Beta variant of this virus is associated with severe, critical or fatal disease, using a case-control model.

6 Aug 2021

Study reports on COVID-19 vaccine-related adverse events in young Japanese population

A new study from Japan, released as a medRxiv* preprint, describes the adverse effects associated with the vaccine. Such data is crucial in delineating the safety and efficacy of this intervention in various age groups.

6 Aug 2021

Affinity maturation of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies make them more powerful and resistant to escape mutations

A new study in the journal Immunity shows in fascinating detail how antibodies elicited by this virus show affinity maturation, a process occurring by somatic hypermutation (SHM) in the lymphoid germinal centers, to become more specific in their recognition of antigens.

6 Aug 2021

Double vaccinated three times less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than unvaccinated, says study

In new research, scientists at Imperial College London report that double vaccinated individuals could be three times less likely than unvaccinated people to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

6 Aug 2021

Study: Neglecting development of therapeutics may repeat history and replicate vaccine inequality

A new policy report released today by the global non-profit research and development organization Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) highlights how the development of therapeutics has been relatively neglected in the global response to COVID-19 and warns that with the few treatment innovations available principally in high-income countries, we risk repeating history and replicating the vaccine inequality that has become a defining characteristic of this global pandemic.

6 Aug 2021

University of Pittsburgh invests in Canopy Biosciences’ ChipCytometry instrument for spatial biology

Canopy Biosciences, a Bruker Company, today announced that the University of Pittsburgh will add ChipCytometry for high-plex single-cell spatial biology to its capabilities at the Unified Flow Core in the Department of Immunology

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 6 Aug 2021

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Learn & Lounge helps AYA patients, survivors to connect with peers and get support

Low-cost face masks and AC filters are effective against airborne toxins from algal blooms

Science academies offer recommendations to improve pandemic preparedness in the future

New study offers insight into how high-risk form of blood cancer can develop in children

Online training leverages the influence of religion to prevent intimate partner violence

Topical cream shows signs of clinical efficacy in patients with basal cell carcinoma

Aducanumab approval for Alzheimer's may provide a proof of concept that can be rapidly improved upon

FDA approves an intravenous medication to treat patients with Pompe disease

Déjà vu? Consumers scramble for covid tests in hard-hit areas

Uson releases A3 upgrade for Optima vT leak tester

Pharmacies face extra audit burdens that threaten their existence

Hard lessons from a city that tried to privatize public health

Clarity on covid count: Pandemic’s toll on seniors extended well beyond nursing homes

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine offers decreased protection six months after second dose, suggests Israeli study

SARS-CoV-2 Beta variant associated with more critical and fatal disease than Alpha, suggests Qatar study

Study reports on COVID-19 vaccine-related adverse events in young Japanese population

Affinity maturation of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies make them more powerful and resistant to escape mutations

Double vaccinated three times less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than unvaccinated, says study

Study: Neglecting development of therapeutics may repeat history and replicate vaccine inequality

University of Pittsburgh invests in Canopy Biosciences’ ChipCytometry instrument for spatial biology

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