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Study shows how increased resilience can reduce anxiety, depression during COVID-19 pandemic

When it comes to worrying about the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study demonstrates that people are more concerned about whether their family members could contract the virus or if they are unknowingly spreading the virus themselves than they are with contracting it.

20 Aug 2020

A healthy lifestyle for cardiovascular health may reduce odds of developing ocular diseases

In a new study, investigators found that ideal cardiovascular health, which is indicative of a healthy lifestyle, was associated with lower odds for ocular diseases especially diabetic retinopathy.

20 Aug 2020

Robotic surgery for oropharyngeal cancer associated with improved health outcomes

Robotic surgery for patients with early stage, oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer is associated with improved health outcomes, including better long-term survival, according to a Cedars-Sinai study published Thursday in JAMA Oncology.

20 Aug 2020

Yellow fever vaccination campaign launched to target 1.6 million people in the West-Nile region of Uganda

Mr Mark Oguma Oguti and his daughter Claudia are thrilled about the launch of the Yellow Fever Vaccination campaign.

20 Aug 2020

FDA provides update on adverse events associated with breast implants

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an update on adverse events reported to the Agency related to breast implants, including breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), and systemic signs and symptoms referred to by patients as breast implant illness (BII), which some patients report after receiving breast implants.

20 Aug 2020

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Democrats in array (for now)

Democrats have shown a remarkably united front, including on health care, in their socially distant, made-for-TV convention this week.

20 Aug 2020

Democratic convention, night 3: Making the party lines clear

The third night of the Democratic National Convention was all about one thing: Sen. Kamala Harris of California becoming the first Black and Indian American woman to accept a major political party’s vice presidential nomination.

20 Aug 2020

Researchers find statistical relationship between COVID-19 hospital use and mortality

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Washington found a statistical relationship between the number of hospital beds (ICU and non-ICU) occupied by COVID-19 patients in a state and reported mortality.

20 Aug 2020

Contact tracing apps not likely to control the spread of COVID-19

Contract tracing apps used to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are unlikely to be effective without proper uptake and support from concurrent control measures, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

20 Aug 2020

New surgical technique could lead to better dialysis outcomes

A new technique developed by a Yale-led research team improves blood flow in surgically made blood vessels used in dialysis, enables them to last longer, and results in fewer complications than the standard technique.

20 Aug 2020

Study may lead to novel therapies for asthma

Researchers identify master regulator genes of asthma, provide new path forward in the study of asthma and the development of novel therapies.

20 Aug 2020

Scientists investigate the role of contractility and microbiota in chronic constipation

Chronic constipation (CC) remains a serious medical and social problem because the complexity of diagnosis, the lack of a single approach to treatment, and unsatisfactory treatment results.

20 Aug 2020

Crisis preparedness system can help scale up emergency healthcare during disease outbreaks

Operators beyond the confines of conventional emergency healthcare are willing and able to assist in a crisis, a University of Gothenburg study shows.

20 Aug 2020

Study reveals a promising treatment for Parkinson's disease

Scientists at the University Bath in the UK have discovered a series of protein structures that are thought to be highly relevant to the onset of Parkinson's disease.

20 Aug 2020

Cells lining the nose are key entry point for coronavirus, shows study

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, experimenting with a small number of human cell samples, report that the "hook" of cells used by SARS-CoV-2 to latch onto and infect cells is up to 700 times more prevalent in the olfactory supporting cells lining the inside of the upper part of the nose than in the lining cells of the rest of the nose and windpipe that leads to the lungs.

20 Aug 2020

Girls with anorexia nervosa can have stunted growth

Girls with anorexia nervosa can have stunted growth and may not reach their full height potential, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

20 Aug 2020

Children play a larger role in the community spread of COVID-19 than previously thought

In the most comprehensive study of COVID-19 pediatric patients to date, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Mass General Hospital for Children (MGHfC) researchers provide critical data showing that children play a larger role in the community spread of COVID-19 than previously thought

20 Aug 2020

Study shows why certain genetically predisposed individuals do not develop heart disease

Life can change dramatically when someone learns they are genetically predisposed to a disease, such as a condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, where a mutated gene can lead to elevated cholesterol and increased risk for a premature heart attack.

20 Aug 2020

COVID-19 linked to type 1 diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis in children

A team of researchers at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London has found a link between COVID-19 and new-onset type 1 diabetes in children. The research is published in the journal Diabetes Care.

20 Aug 2020

SARS-CoV-2 hijacks antiviral factors to promote infection in human lung cells

Now, a new study published in the preprint server bioRxiv in August 2020 shows that under conditions resembling those in vivo, IFNs may promote efficient viral invasion instead.

20 Aug 2020

Medical News

Study shows how increased resilience can reduce anxiety, depression during COVID-19 pandemic

A healthy lifestyle for cardiovascular health may reduce odds of developing ocular diseases

Robotic surgery for oropharyngeal cancer associated with improved health outcomes

Yellow fever vaccination campaign launched to target 1.6 million people in the West-Nile region of Uganda

FDA provides update on adverse events associated with breast implants

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Democrats in array (for now)

Democratic convention, night 3: Making the party lines clear

Researchers find statistical relationship between COVID-19 hospital use and mortality

Contact tracing apps not likely to control the spread of COVID-19

New surgical technique could lead to better dialysis outcomes

Study may lead to novel therapies for asthma

Scientists investigate the role of contractility and microbiota in chronic constipation

Crisis preparedness system can help scale up emergency healthcare during disease outbreaks

Study reveals a promising treatment for Parkinson's disease

Cells lining the nose are key entry point for coronavirus, shows study

Girls with anorexia nervosa can have stunted growth

Children play a larger role in the community spread of COVID-19 than previously thought

Study shows why certain genetically predisposed individuals do not develop heart disease

COVID-19 linked to type 1 diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis in children

SARS-CoV-2 hijacks antiviral factors to promote infection in human lung cells

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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