Medical News
Social media can identify fathers at risk of postpartum depression
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Fathers' social media posts were evaluated for changes in behavior (engagement with the platform), emotions, linguistic style, and discussion topics following the birth o...
Oncotarget: Epigenetic feedback and stochastic partitioning can drive resistance to EMT
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Impact Journals LLC) Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 27 published "Epigenetic feedback and stochastic partitioning during cell division can drive resistance to EMT" by Jia et al. which reported that Epithelial-mesenchymal t...
HPTN 083 study demonstrates superiority of cabotegravir for the prevention of HIV
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(FHI360) The HPTN 083 clinical trial showed that a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) regimen containing long-acting cabotegravir (CAB LA) injected once every 8 weeks was superior to daily oral tenofovir/emtricitabine (TDF/...
Oncotarget: Clonality and antigen-specific responses shape prognostic effects
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Impact Journals LLC) Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 27 reported that to delineate the complexity of anti-tumor T-cell responses, the author's utilized a computational method for de novo assembly of sequences from CDR3 regi...
CU Healthcare Innovation Fund closes with $50 million in committed capital
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) The fund expects a majority of its investments to be focused on digital health and healthcare IT ventures that have a co-development relationship with the campus. The fund...
Mental health benefits of parks dimmed by safety concerns
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) No matter how close parks are to home, perceptions of park-centered crime may keep New Yorkers from using them.
Diagnosis to therapy: The future of image-guided patient management
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) SNMMI's Virtual Annual Meeting will convene more than 6,000 attendees from around the globe to share novel research on new and better ways to diagnose and treat cancers...
Bad E. coli we know, but good E. coli?
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of Cincinnati) Researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine say E. coli Nissle may protect human cells against other more pathogenic strains of E. coli such as E. coli 0157:H7, which is com...
Biomedical sciences researcher receives $3.65 million federal grant to develop antiviral drugs
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Georgia State University) Dr. Richard Plemper, Distinguished University Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has been awarded a five-year, $3.65 million grant from the National...
COVID-19 in patients who have received kidney transplants or are undergoing dialysis
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(American Society of Nephrology) A recent study found that most kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 do not need to be hospitalized. Another study found that patients on dialysis who develop COVID-19 may have sympt...
COVID-related discrimination disproportionately impacts racial minorities, study shows
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of Southern California) USC Dornsife's "Understanding Coronavirus in America" tracking survey reveals that discrimination against people who are perceived to have COVID-19, regardless of their true infection ...
Childhood obesity linked to poor heart health signs at 11-12 years
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Murdoch Childrens Research Institute) Toddlers who were obese or overweight show concerning signs of cardiovascular disease at 11-12 years of age, according to a new study.
Desk-based jobs may offer protection against poor cognition in later life
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of Cambridge) People who work in jobs that require less physical activity - typically office and desk-based jobs - are at a lower risk of subsequent poor cognition than those whose work is more physically act...
Engineered killer immune cells target tumours and their immunosuppressive allies
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(eLife ) Scientists have engineered natural killer immune cells that not only kill head and neck tumour cells in mice but also reduce the immune-suppressing myeloid cells that allow tumours to evade the immune response, ...
Flu in early life determines our susceptibility to future infections
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(eLife ) Early infections of influenza A can help predict how the virus will affect people across different ages in the future and could impact the effectiveness of flu vaccines, says a new study published today in eLife...
Gut Piezo1 regulates gut and bone homeostasis via RNA sensing.
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Gut enterochromaffin cells regulate gut and bone homeostasis via serotonin production. A recent report suggested that gut microbes regulate serotonin levels, but the underlying m...
How to tackle climate change, food security and land degradation
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Rutgers University) How can some of world's biggest problems -- climate change, food security and land degradation -- be tackled simultaneously? Some lesser-known options, such as integrated water management and increas...
Long-acting injectable form of HIV prevention outperforms daily pill in NIH study
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) regimen containing an investigational long-acting form of the HIV drug cabotegravir injected once every 8 weeks was more effec...
Measuring tape is a critical tool for following Zika virus-exposed children
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Children's National Hospital) A simple measuring tape could be the key to identifying which children could developneurological and developmental abnormalities from Zika virus exposure during gestation.This is according ...
Medicare's race, ethnic data often undercounts minority populations, study finds
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Rutgers University) The information critical to a nationwide priority of reducing health care disparities among minorities is incomplete and inaccurate, according to a new Rutgers study.
Men and younger adults less active in lockdown
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Anglia Ruskin University) New research published in the journal BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine indicates that men and younger adults have been less physically active during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Metabolomics meets genomics to improve patient diagnosis
EurekAlert! - 7 Jul 2020 06:00
(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have improved their ability to identify the genetic cause of undiagnosed conditions.