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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...

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...

(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.

(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...

(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...

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

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Our immune system protects us against pathogens. However, an excessive immune reaction can trigger allergies or chronic asthma. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM...

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

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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

(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.

(JAMA Network) The author describes her experience being pregnant during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

(European Society of Cardiology) Heart attack patients who take part in a lifestyle improvement program feel better -- especially when they do additional physical activity. That's the finding of a large study presented t...

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Berlin-based fisheries scientist honored for wide-ranging public engagement activities, and special recognition for outstanding communication amid the coronavirus pandemic for Charité v...

(Rice University) Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao wins a federal grant to advance research into a cure for sickle cell disease.

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) Shuffling of DNA in a single gene might be why the syphilis bacteria can evade the immune system. The change alters a protein on its cell surface to create a distrac...

(JAMA Network) Researchers in this survey study examined whether watching the 2019 movie 'Joker,' in which the namesake character is violent and has mental illness, was associated with a change in the level of prejudice ...

(JAMA Network) This randomized clinical trial evaluates the safety and efficacy of two chloroquine diphosphate dosages in patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).