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(Boston Medical Center) Results of a study show that enrollment in a program that supports housing and health needs of medically complex families was associated with improved child health and parent mental health within ...

U.S. health officials flipped their advice and now recommend everyone wear cloth masks in public to reduce the spread of coronavirus to others. Some cities have fines for going without masks.

Though electronics manufacturers remain extremely concerned about the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, just over 40% of them expect business to return to normal this summer. So says IPC, the association representing ele...

The Siglent SSA3000X-R Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers (RTSA)are powerful and flexible tools for complex RF spectrum and signal analysis. With a capability of 40 MHz analysis bandwidth and 7.2 μsec 100% probability of inte...

Studies have shown how lungs are more susceptible to pollution, and that people in polluted areas are more susceptible to respiratory infections.

Ventilators and respirators become a critical but limited supply item when a pandemic such as the coronavirus (COVID-19) occurs. Since air pressure and air flow are involved in both, pressure sensors are an integral part...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) A team of physician-scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are now enrolling patients in a clinical trial to evaluate a common anti-clotting drug for the treatment of CO...

(Thomas Jefferson University) Ursolic acid, abundant in fruit peels and some herbs, both prevents and repairs neurons in animal models of multiple sclerosis.

(RAND Corporation) The challenges of COVID-19 will require hospital leaders, practitioners and regional officials to adopt drastic measures that challenge the standard way of providing care. The RAND Corporation has crea...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) In an article just published in JAMA Health Forum, nurse researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) underscore that while responses to ...

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) A team working to combat the COVID-19 virus has a system that will unlock researchers' ability to more quickly develop and evaluate developing vaccines, diagnose infected...

(Penn State) The style by which livestock are managed, but not an animal's age, plays an important role in transmission risk of PPRV, which produces a highly infectious and often fatal disease in sheep and goats. These f...

(World Federation of Science Journalists) The World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) has launched a new digital platform to assist science journalists who cover the COVID-19 situation.WFSJ-COVID-19-Briefing () is...

(Wiley) Consuming a diet high in fiber was linked with a reduced incidence of breast cancer in an analysis of all relevant prospective studies. The findings are published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal o...

(National University of Singapore) New research from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore at the National University of Singapore revealed a genetic variant in a gene called MET that is responsible for more aggressi...

(Houston Methodist) The FDA's announcement Friday to approve convalescent serum therapy as a large-scale clinical trial opened the door for more patients to receive the potentially life-saving gift of a donor's plasma.

(Tokyo Institute of Technology) How understanding the dynamics of yeast prions can shed light on neurodegenerative diseases

(Lancaster University) A Lancaster University statistician who worked on the first published large randomized clinical trial for a potential treatment for the COVID-19 virus said the study produced positive results.

(Washington University School of Medicine) Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis studied the gut microbiomes of wild apes in the Republic of Congo, of captive apes in zoos in the US, and of people from arou...

(Aarhus University) A group of scientists from Aarhus University in Denmark and University of Siena in Italy has found another small piece in the puzzle of understanding COVID-19. Looking for reasons why the mortality ra...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) The number of hospitals providing TAVR could double with changes to Medicare requirements. Researchers see reason for both excitement and concern.

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) A team of data scientists, physicians, and engineers across the Mount Sinai Health System has come together to launch STOP COVID NYC, a web-based app to capture...