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(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Study findings may help doctors better triage coronavirus patients in admitted to the hospital.

More than 100 coronavirus vaccines are in the works. But vaccines remain elusive for many diseases we've been fighting for decades.

Researchers have discovered that repurposed enzymes and light are key to producing chemical compounds in an environmentally friendly fashion. By blending bio- and photocatalysis and experimenting with reactionary 'ingred...

Researchers working in rural Kenya have identified the most productive breeding habitats for mosquitoes that spread a range of untreatable viruses. Their findings point to more effective health interventions that focus o...

When correctly used, supercapacitors can support high power levels, high pulse power loads, and long-term back-up power needs. Understanding the nuances of supercapacitor specifications is the key to maximizing these per...

Loss of estrogen has an effect on muscles and leads to a decline in muscle mass. Physical activity in all of its forms may help maintain muscle mass in midlife.

Scientists have shown that pancreatic cancer metastasis -- when tumor cells gain the deadly ability to migrate to new parts of the body -- can be suppressed by inhibiting a protein called Slug that regulates cell movemen...

Virus DNA left on a hospital bed rail was found in nearly half of all sites sampled across a ward within 10 hours and persisted for at least five days, according to a new study in the United Kingdom.

Taking prescription blood pressure medication helped even the frailest elderly patients live longer, according to a large study in Italy. While the improved survival benefit was found in all older people, the healthier o...

(Rana Healthcare Solutions LLC) The Open Wearables Initiative (OWEAR) announced the release of the OWEAR database, which includes the organization's initial index of open source software and datasets with validation pape...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A group of researchers has determined how different proteins associated with SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- generate immune responses when given to r...

(Case Western Reserve University) A team led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers has made two major discoveries involving psoriasis, a chronic and debilitating skin disease with no known cur...

(ERA-EDTA) A current study [1] reports on two COVID-19 patients with acute kidney injury. The virus was detected in throat swabs only, but not in kidney tissue, so it is suspected that inflammatory or immunological react...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Sexual violence is a serious problem with potentially severe and lasting negative effects on the physical, psychological, and social well-being of victims -- including athletes. A new American Med...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) In collaboration with McMaster University/Canada, IQWiG developed two study filters to search for non-randomized studies (NRS) in PubMed and Medline (OVID).

(Virginia Tech) Santos and his colleagues have recently identified a small mitochondrial uncoupler, named BAM15, that decreases the body fat mass of mice without affecting food intake and muscle mass or increasing body t...

(University of Rochester) A team of researchers from the University of Rochester and the Israeli-based Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya examined the effects of playing hard to get, a mating strategy that is likely to in...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Hollings Cancer Center researcher Chanita Hughes-Halbert, Ph.D. shows in two recent health disparity studies the work being done by the Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center in Pre...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Cancer researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have harnessed tools used for the development of cancer immunotherapies and adapted them to identify regions of the S...

(Wiley) An educational video about hospice care can provide valuable information for patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers, improve perceptions of this quality form of care at the end of life, and increase i...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) New York, NY (June 08, 2020) The Mount Sinai Health System has received an award from Microsoft AI for Health to support the work of a new data science center d...

(Elsevier) Engaging in family meals may be a matter of improving communication and support at home. A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, connects less family discourageme...