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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.

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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) Researchers learned from some unusual sweat bee species on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, how the sophisticated division of labor in highly complex insect societies can arise fro...

(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...

(BMJ) More than half of pregnant women recently admitted to a UK hospital with covid-19 infection were from black or other ethnic minority groups, finds a national surveillance study published by The BMJ today.

(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...

(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...

(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...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Distinct from virus transmission patterns identified elsewhere, analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes from a small number of California-based patients suggests the virus arr...

(AlphaMed Press) A new study released in STEM CELLS identifies a potential biomarker for prescreening donors for their MSCs' growth capacity and potency.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) An experimental study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania links a specific procedure -- embryo culture -- that is part of ...

(Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have shown that pancreatic cancer metastasis--when tumor cells gain the deadly ability to migrate to n...

(ERA-EDTA) A French study [1] investigated acute Fanconi syndrome as a kidney injury associated with COVID-19. The hallmark of the syndrome is increased excretion or loss of certain substances (such as protein, phosphate...

(University of Kentucky) A study led by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers showed that patients who already used opioids, sedatives or antidepressants prior to colorectal surgery experience significa...

(European League Against Rheumatism) Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases disable millions of people. The causes of more than 200 of these conditions are unknown, there are no cures. Research and innovation are crucial...