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(Mayo Clinic) Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators have found investigational convalescent plasma to be safe following transfusion in a diverse group of 20,000 patients. The findings -- from the US Food and Drug Adm...

(American College of Physicians) Living practice points from ACP: advice on use of N95, surgical, and cloth masks to prevent COVID-19.

It's likely that people will get sick from attending protests -- but how that compares to people getting sick for other reasons might be the bigger question.

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) In the first study to look at objective measures of sedentary behavior and cancer mortality, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found tha...

(Elsevier) A new study appearing in the journal CHEST®, published by Elsevier, documents an increased incidence of silicosis, which progressed rapidly to massive pulmonary fibrosis in a significant proportion of patient...

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) The COVID-19 pandemic appears to be adversely affecting mental health among hospitalised patients, the healthcare professionals treating them and the ...

(Children's Cancer Institute Australia) Researchers have been investigating what they believe to be the root cause of treatment resistance, leukaemia stem cells, and have now hit upon a new therapeutic approach that work...

(Bioscribe) Blood sample analyses from the Children's Autism Metabolome Project have now reproducibly identified unique metabolic signatures in over 50% of the participating children with autism. This is an important ste...

(University of Rhode Island) A research team led by a University of Rhode Island ornithologist had birds fly in a wind tunnel to simulate migration and found that birds that consume dietary antioxidants before and during...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) In 2003, Heiko Braak proposed that Parkinson's disease is caused by a pathogen in the gut that could pass through the intestinal mucosal barrier and spread to the brain through the n...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Social distancing and limited access to contraceptive and abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents ...

(University of Stirling) Pioneering research led by the University of Stirling could play a vital role in reducing the prevalence of 'snail fever' -- a debilitating infection that affects more than 200 million people wor...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Maturing and reproducing early hardly has any downsides. If you're a wild boar, that is.

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) New body to strengthen basic research and identify research needs / 18 members representing all disciplines led by President Katja Becker / First meeting on 15 June

(Kazan Federal University) Fungi producing cyclosporins exist as two reproducing stages: asexual -- soil fungi from which cyclosporin was initially extracted, and sexual -- parasitic fungi close to a popularly known genu...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) A study of nearly 400 pregnant women is among the first to show that socioeconomic status and household crowding increase the risk of getting COVID-19.

(SingHealth) A study conducted by clinicians from KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) and researchers at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), which evaluated and demonstrated the safety and effecti...

(University of Gothenburg) Certain patients who receive hospital care for coronavirus infection (COVID-19) exhibit clinical and neurochemical signs of brain injury, a University of Gothenburg study shows. In even moderat...

(ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group) Results from first randomized trial for inoperable anal cancer suggest that carboplatin-paclitaxel become the standard treatment for these patients. Results of worldwide InterAAct trial...

(University of Nottingham) Parasitic worms could offer a new treatment hope for patients suffering from the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis, according to experts from the University of Nottingham.

(MC Services AG) AFFiRiS AG, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel disease-modifying specific active immunotherapies (SAITs), today announced that detailed results of the phase 1 clinical program with i...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Sleep deprivation makes us feel less happy, active, attentive and purposeful, according to a new study.