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(IOS Press) The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (JAD) is pleased to announce that the joint recipients of the 2020 Alzheimer Award are Christin Nance, BA, and Sarah Banks, PhD.

Prison COVID-19 cases are five times higher and prison COVID-19 death rate are three times higher than the U.S. general population, according to new research.

A clinical trial has found evidence that the experimental drug tofersen lowers levels of a disease-causing protein in people with an inherited form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, caused by mutations in the gen...

It's intuitive and scientifically shown that wearing a face covering can help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. But not all masks are created equal, according to new research.

The key components of electrical connections between light receptors in the eye and the impact of these connections on the early steps of visual signal processing have been identified for the first time, according to new...

Scientists have discovered that one of the good bacteria found in the human gut has a benefit that has remained unrecognized until now: the potential to reduce the risk for heart disease.

(Oregon State University) Findings from an Oregon State University study into the effects of radiofrequency radiation generated by the wireless technology that will soon be the standard for cell phones suggest few health...

In a new paper, researchers propose that controlling the local and systemic inflammatory response in COVID-19 may be as important as anti-viral and other therapies.

New research found that, compared with a father's traits related to allergies and asthma, a mother's traits create a higher risk that a child will develop these same traits in early childhood.

(University of South Carolina) UofSC researchers from its Big Data Health Science Center initiative have received $1.25 million in grant funding from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) ...

Differences in lung physiology and immune function in children could be why they are more often spared from severe illness associated with COVID-19 than adults.

Cases of brain complications linked to COVID-19 are occurring across the globe, a new review has shown. The research found that strokes, delirium and other neurological complications are reported from most countries wher...

The precision editing technologies that have revolutionized DNA editing in the cell nucleus have been unable to reach the mitochondrial genome. Now, researchers have broken this barrier with a new type of molecular edito...

(Brown University) The MDM2 gene promotes tumor growth and interferes with immunotherapy in some cancer patients -- a new study from a Brown University research team suggests that an MDM2-inhibiting drug could help addre...

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) More than a decade into the community development initiative called Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families, the 30-block Southern Orchards neighborhood on Columbus, Ohio's South Side had ...

(Stony Brook University) A new machine learning tool developed by researchers at a startup company (Akai Kaeru LLC) affiliated with Stony Brook University's Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced C...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) Non-invasive diagnostic procedures for suspected CHD: search reveals informative evidence Informative study results are available on diagnostic procedures using compu...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) "Nurse-initiated and managed antiretroviral therapy" (NIMART) is an innovative approach to making effective medications more accessible to people living with HIV (PLWH) in low-resource countries. ...

Hearing is widely thought to be the last sense to go in the dying process. Now, the first study to investigate hearing in palliative care patients who are close to death provides evidence that some may still be able to h...

An important line of defense against SARS-CoV-2 is the formation of neutralizing antibodies. These can eliminate the intruders and have great potential to be used for prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Res...

Early results from modeling and a feasibility study for fit testing suggest that the iMASC system, an N95 mask alternative, could fit faces of different sizes and shapes and be sterilized for reuse.

(Wiley) In a recent study from Singapore, early access to pension wealth was associated with improved health status. The findings are published in Economic Inquiry.