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(Hokkaido University) Exercise can only improve strength in muscle-degenerating diseases when a specific type of muscle cell ages, report a Hokkaido University researcher and colleagues with Sapporo Medical University in...

The shortage of respiratory ventilators in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic has lead to numerous efforts aimed at turning hand-operated plastic pouches called bag-valve resuscitators into makeshift ventilators. The resu...

There are four coronaviruses already endemic in the human population. COVID-19 could become the fifth.

(American College of Cardiology) The investigational drug evinacumab reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol to near-normal levels among patients with a rare cholesterol disorder, meeting the primary endpoint i...

(American College of Cardiology) The results of VOYAGER PAD found that people with peripheral artery disease (PAD) who took the blood thinner rivaroxaban with aspirin after undergoing lower extremity revascularization --...

(American College of Cardiology) The direct oral anticoagulant rivaroxaban dramatically cut the likelihood of serious venous thromboembolism (VTE) in people recovering from lower limb orthopedic surgery requiring immobil...

(University of California - Riverside) Trouble for alcoholic fathers, hope for alcoholic mothers. Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have explored the relationship between parental alcohol consumption...

(National Institute for Health Research) Researchers in Leicester have shown that the function of the heart can be significantly improved in patients with type 2 diabetes through exercise.

(American College of Cardiology) In a study with the longest follow-up to date of patients with a high-risk form of heart disease known as left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD), researchers found no significant diffe...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center want to devise better therapeutic strategies for patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cuSCC) by improving their underst...

(CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy) A majority (56%) of New York City residents did not think the assistance provided by the federal government for NYC and the state as a whole is sufficient to mana...

(Karolinska Institutet) Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and St Erik Eye Hospital in Sweden have discovered a way to refine the production of retinal cells from embryonic stem cells for treating blindness in the elde...

(American College of Surgeons) To help guide hospital surgery departments through this crisis, the acute surgery division at Atrium Health's Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., has developed a tiered plan for ma...

(Houston Methodist) Houston Methodist received FDA approval Saturday to become the first academic medical center in the nation to transfuse donated plasma from a recovered COVID-19 patient into a critically ill patient. ...

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) An artificial intelligence tool accurately predicted which patients newly infected with the COVID-19 virus would go on to develop severe respiratory disease, a new study foun...

(American College of Cardiology) Patients who experience chest pain and have abnormal results on a cardiac stress test but who do not have blocked arteries often experience changes in their symptoms and stress test resul...

(American College of Cardiology) The cholesterol drug alirocumab reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by 35.6% compared to placebo in adult patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), acco...

(German Sport University) Exercise in older adults, even at an advanced stage of dementia, is an important strategy to maintain independence in everyday living and to promote quality of life.

(Lehigh University) Lehigh University biologist Michael Layden earns NSF Career Award for his work to identify the mechanism of neurogenesis during development and regeneration in a species of sea anemone capable of rege...

(Elsevier) Physicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, and patients are actively debating the potential influence of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) in pat...

(American Heart Association) In Kuwait, a country known for hot weather, death certificates reveal that on days when the temperatures reached extremes of an average daily temperature of 109 degrees Fahrenheit, the number...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A new free app is helping to track the onset and progression of symptoms of millions across the nation.