Medical News

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) New data from TERAVOLT, a global consortium that tracks outcomes of people with thoracic cancers affected by COVID-19, offers clues as to why they experienced a high death rate of 3...

(VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)) A collaborative study by research groups from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research and Ghent University uncovered a new mechanism causing colorectal cancer. The ...

(National Cancer Research Institute) Join Dr Vinay Prasad as he discusses 'the good, the bad and the ugly' in clinical research; what we can learn and what we can improve. He'll also explore the similarities and differen...

(Stevens Institute of Technology) Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. show how the bombardier beetle concocts its deadly explosives and in the process, learn how evolution gave rise to the bee...

(University of Iowa Health Care) Researchers at the University of Iowa and Medical University, Guangzhou, in China, have created a gene therapy vector that is essentially an off-the-shelf tool that allows labs to create ...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) The sugar coating on cancer cells helps them thrive, and a new study indicates patients with cervical cancer who make antibodies to those sugars appear to do better when...

(Forschungsverbund Berlin) On May 26, 2020, BioRescue team extracted oocytes from the southern white rhino female "Makena" in Serengeti Park in Hodenhagen, Germany, and then fertilized them in the Avantea laboratory in I...

(American College of Physicians) 1. Promoting Better Clinical Trials and Drug Information as Public Health Interventions for the COVID-19 Emergency in Italy ; 2. COVID-19 Clinical Trials: Improving Research Infrastructur...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) COVID-19 is like a heat-seeking missile that targets the most vulnerable. The bull's-eye is environmental justice communities, which are the poorest, the most polluted, a...

(University of Gothenburg) Cholesterol levels are declining sharply in western nations, but rising in low- and middle-income nations - particularly in Asia, according to a study of global cholesterol levels, which involv...

(Northwestern University) How do you monitor thousands of patients who have COVID-19 symptoms but are not ill enough to come to the emergency department? How do you catch them before they seriously deteriorate? A new pro...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) Laura Young, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, was UNC's principal investigator for this six-month clinical trial that shows the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CG...

(Luxembourg Institute of Health) Dr Guy Fagherazzi, Research Leader in "Digital Epidemiology and E-health" and colleagues from the Department of Population Health of the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) released an e...

(University at Buffalo) A study led by a UB researcher found that a drug called golimumab preserved beta-cell function in children and young adults with newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes, according to findings from a Phase...

(University of Virginia Health System) Well-timed exercise programs may slow the progression of Friedreich's ataxia, which robs patients of their ability to walk, new research suggests.

(Kessler Foundation) 'Evidence suggests that cognitive rehabilitation is effective in MS-related cognitive dysfunction, and may confer long-lasting effects,' said Dr. DeLuca. 'Access to cognitive rehabilitation therapy i...

(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) Infectious disease experts from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and UW Medicine are advocating for earlier actions to reduce hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.

(The University of Hong Kong) A School of Biological Sciences research team at the University of Hong Kong recently discovered an unexpected role of the heat shock proteins (HSPs) during neuronal differentiation. HSPs ar...

(Oregon State University) The lives of honeybees are shortened -- with evidence of physiological stress -- when they are exposed to the suggested application rates of two commercially available and widely used pesticides...

(University of Michigan) One group of neurons controls various types of sighing, but they receive their instructions from different areas of the brain depending on the reason for the sigh, according to a study scheduled ...

(Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.) In this study the authors show that clinical guidelines can still be created in the midst of a pandemic.

(Indiana University) One in five adults in the United States report they have experienced change -- mostly a decrease -- in their sexual behavior during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study...