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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute is moving quickly to establish standards for mobile apps that can track and reduce the spread of the virus. The post ETSI moves to standardize COVID-19 tracking apps ap...

(University of Cambridge) Researchers have found a way to design an antibody that can identify the toxic particles that destroy healthy brain cells -- a potential advance in the fight against Alzheimer's disease.

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Dr. Elnara Negri, who works in São Paulo City at the largest hospital complex in Latin America, advocates the use of the anti-coagulant drug heparin to treat compl...

(McMaster University) The international research team examined a century of evidence including recent data, and found strong evidence showing that cloth and cloth masks can reduce contamination of air and surfaces.

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Physicians and the public should be aware of the different presentations of Lyme disease, as people spend more time outside in the warmer weather and as areas in Canada where the bl...

(Frontiers) Identifying risk factors underlying fatal COVID-19 cases is critical to understanding - and treating - the deadly disease. In Wuhan, China, researchers studied 18 patients who did not survive COVID-19, most o...

(Osaka University) Researchers from Osaka University, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, and Niigata University identified the amino acid arginine as a potential disease-modifying drug for polyglutamine disease...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) Kidney transplantations: better results with larger case volumes.Survival probabilities increase in hospitals where kidneys are transplanted more frequently.

(Yale University) A genome-wide analysis of more than 435,000 people has identified 29 genetic variants linked to problematic drinking, researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and colleagues report May 25 in th...

(Wiley) The diagnosis of cancer in a child can be devastating to parents and other loved ones, but in a recent study from Denmark, having a child with cancer did not appear to impact parents' risk of separation or divorc...

(Rockefeller University) Scientists have long struggled to understand what drives a tumor to seed itself elsewhere in the body. New research implicates own pre-existing genetics.

(University of Ottawa) When University of Ottawa biologists Kim Mitchell and Vance Trudeau began studying the effects of gene mutations in zebrafish, they uncovered new functions that regulate how males and females inter...

(American College of Cardiology) Patients with heart failure who experience low health literacy are at an increased risk of hospitalization and mortality. This finding has significant clinical and public health implicati...