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(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Computed tomography scans for people at risk for lung cancer lead to earlier diagnoses and improve survival rates, but they can also lead to overtreatment when suspicious nodules tu...

Researchers have designed biocompatible ion-driven soft transistors that can perform real-time neurologically relevant computation and a mixed-conducting particulate composite that allows creation of electronic component...

New data suggests that Michigan nursing homes that responded to a survey were far better prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic than they were for the last one. The study includes responses from 130 nursing homes to a survey...

The increasingly compact design in electronics development today means that power and signal connections are now combined on the same printed circuit boards. The resulting increase in power density changes how we think a...

Heart attack patients who take part in a lifestyle improvement program feel better -- especially when they do additional physical activity.

Experts from UNC Chapel Hill review possible clinical approaches from antivirals to gene therapy against the virus responsible for COVID-19 and related diseases.

Researchers report that a combination of cotton with natural silk or chiffon can effectively filter out aerosol particles -- if the fit is good.

(Wiley) A recent article published in Current Protocols in Microbiology details a breakthrough antibody test for COVID-19.

(University of Ottawa) Children born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy have a mutation in the X-chromosome gene that would normally code for dystrophin, a protein that provides structural integrity to skeletal muscles. Th...

(American College of Physicians) Ventilator Triage Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic at U.S. Hospitals Associated With Members of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) New study explores the connection between levels of a type of destructive white blood cell, known as a neutrophil, with the severity of COVID-19.

(George Mason University) Edward W. Maibach, Director, Center for Climate Change Communication; Faculty, Communication, is set to receive $247,858 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support the Medical Society Co...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Three researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have received awards to pursue treatments and vaccines...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) The interferon-stimulated gene C19orf66 plays an important role in the defence against hepatitis C viruses. A research team at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) headed by Professor Eike Steinmann fr...

(Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University) A team of scientists led by Yosuke Toda, Designated Assistant Professor at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University...

(Indiana University) Indiana University is collaborating with the state health department to conduct a scientific study to measure the spread of COVID-19 throughout Indiana.

(Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD) Just where fat is deposited in the body and to what degree a person may benefit from a lifestyle intervention depends on how sensitive the brain is to insulin. If the person...

(JAMA Network) This study investigates the depression and anxiety of children in China's Hubei province during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown.

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) Scientists in Texas and Pennsylvania have identified a protein sensor that restricts how much sugar and fat our cells convert into energy during periods of starv...

(University of Barcelona) The Sanfilippo syndrome type C is a severe neurodegenerative disease which appears during the first years of life and for which there is no treatment yet. A recent study, published in Journal of...

(Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD) In a Nature Reviews Endocrinology 'Comment' authors from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), the Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Pu...

(JAMA Network) This Patient Page calls attention to risk factors for child abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses ways to reduce stress and risk of child abuse during social isolation.