Medical News

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) In order to survive within the remote and harsh anatomical microenvironments of the central nervous system, the disseminated cancer cells that cause rare yet deadly l...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) An Online First Accepted Manuscript published in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) finds that focusing on lung cancer screening (LCS) subjects less likely to remain in the prog...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) A genetic code-reading machine that is overactive in the pediatric cancer Ewing sarcoma causes cell structures called nucleoli to break up, researchers found. A ...

(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) The approach, which combines a simple-to-use molecular test with the minimally invasive autopsy, could be a valuable tool in regions with high burden of the disease

(American Heart Association) Living with multiple social disadvantages, including low education, low annual household income, social isolation, living in a neighborhood with high poverty or with poor public health infras...

(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) A new international research project launched in Lithuania will assess the effects of alcohol control policies implemented in the Baltic States and investigate the impact they hav...

(University of Edinburgh) Genes linked to ageing that could help explain why some people age at different rates to others have been identified by scientists.

(Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona) The researchers, using real-time videos, have discovered that both the neurons and the cells of blood vessels emit dynamic protrusions to be able to 'talk' to each other.

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Cannabidiol, or CBD, may help reduce the cytokine storm and excessive lung inflammation that is killing many patients with COVID-19, researchers say.

(University of Ottawa) New book provides deep dive into the vulnerabilities exposed by the pandemic.

(Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is providing $1.3 million in grant funding for rare disease organizations NORD and EURORDIS to support their hundreds of member organizations across the globe.

(Radiological Society of North America) Racial/ethnic minority patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 infection are more likely to have more severe disease on chest X-rays than white/non-Hispanic patients, incre...

(Baylor College of Medicine) An international team of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine and Houston Methodist has discovered a strategy that can potentially address a major challenge to the current treatment ...

(University of Bern) An international expert group led by Mathias Wirth, Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Bern, has developed recommendations for avoiding triage of COVID-19 patients in ex...

(University of New South Wales) Manmade reefs can be used in conjunction with the restoration or protection of natural habitat to increase fish abundance in estuaries, UNSW researchers have found.

(George Washington University) Researchers at the George Washington University are investigating HIV-1 resistance to antibody treatments. They were awarded $3.6 million from the National Institutes of Health.

(African Academy of Sciences) Today a report was released that calls for the use of research evidence on the optimal implementation of public health interventions for COVID-19 in varied global settings.

(Virginia Tech) "By getting people to load an app on their cell phone, we'll see if people will respond to the information provided," Boyle said.

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) In the largest international study of its kind, researchers at the University of Alberta and Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital found that an accelerated renal-replac...

(Fujita Health University) A research team from Fujita Health University, Japan, has found that bacteria of the genus Bartonella release a protein--which they have named BafA--that stimulates the production of new blood ...

(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Antibodies produced by a patient can potentially exacerbate a viral disease, such as COVID-19. With new funding from the National Cancer Institute, a research team at Dartmouth's Norr...

(Northeast Ohio Medical University) NEOMED researcher and professor of anatomy and neurobiology Jianxin Bao, Ph.D., has received a federal grant to produce the first human treatment for tinnitus, a disruptive hearing imp...