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(Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care) Rates of depression and stress have increased among the general population since the COVID-19 pandemic began, but we know little about the current state of mental health of older adul...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A suite of articles in The Journal of Infectious Diseases contains the first swath of important data from the world's largest study of cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention in people wi...

(University of Basel) Lopinavir is a drug against HIV, hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria and rheumatism. Until recently, both drugs were regarded as potential agents in the fight against the coronavirus SARS-Co...

(The Physiological Society) Consuming protein at night increases blood sugar level in the morning for healthy people, according to new research presented this week at The Physiological Society's virtual early career conf...

(University of Vermont) Based on one new and three recent studies, the authors of this commentary in Pediatrics conclude that children rarely transmit Covid-19, either among themselves or to adults. Based on the evidence...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) Changing practices in the HIV/co-infections research community so that women, providers, and policy makers can make evidence-informed decisions around the use of medications dur...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Strains of a common subtype of influenza virus, H3N2, have almost universally acquired a mutation that effectively blocks antibodies from binding to a key vira...

(University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center) Physicians at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center completed the evaluation phase for the GE Healthcare Critical Care Suite in December, and the technology is now ...

(American Heart Association) Patients with COVID-19 who have an acute ischemic stroke (AIS) experience more severe strokes, have worse functional outcomes and are more likely to die of stroke than AIS patients who do not...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A new single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of more than 59,000 cells from three different patient cohorts provides a detailed look at patients' immune responses to sev...

(Washington State University) Researchers have demonstrated that a fatty acid called dihomogamma-linolenic acid, or DGLA, can induce ferroptosis, an iron-dependent type of cell death, in an animal model and in human canc...

(University of Iowa Health Care) New research published in Cell Metabolism has identified for the first time the specific brain cells that control how much sugar you eat and how much you crave sweet tasting food. The stu...

(Flinders University) Alcohol's popularity and its central place in socialising in Australia obscures the dangers of excessive drinking and possible liver disease, Flinders University experts warn. As Dry July awareness ...

(AAGBI) A new study shows that certain aerosol boxes of a similar type to those that have been manufactured and used in hospitals in the UK and around the world in order to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 can ac...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Leading health disparities experts hope health institutions will take advantage of a new cancer health equity research volume recently released that curates the latest developments ...

(University of California - San Francisco) Black men in the United States are known to suffer disproportionately from prostate cancer, but few studies have investigated whether genetic differences in prostate tumors coul...

(University of British Columbia) A new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of Manitoba has found that bacteria are shared and possibly transferred from a mother's milk to her inf...

(Harvard Medical School) New findings reframe the traditional view of face blindness as a disorder arising strictly from deficits in visual perception of facial features. Findings suggest prosopagnosia may be a more comp...

(Center of Diagnostics and Telemedicine) Researchers from the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine together with colleagues from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, University of Munich and Sechenov Universit...

(Boston University) In college students, COVID-19 has increased depression rate and raised new barriers to mental healthcare.

(Boston University School of Medicine) A new Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) study published in the Nature journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, shows that gun ownership means very differ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) A baby girl in Texas -- born prematurely to a mother with COVID-19 -- is the strongest evidence to date that intrauterine (in the womb) transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviru...