Medical News

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Today's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the first CAR T-cell therapy for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) represents a key advance for patients with relapsed or treatment-resistant...

(Microbicide Trials Network) With a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency, a vaginal ring intended to be used for a month at a time moves closer to potentially becoming a new HIV prevention method for cisge...

(Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) A Nature study authored by a global team of scientists and led by Sumit Chanda, Ph.D., professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, has identified ...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) The team found that sputum testing detected the RNA of the virus that causes COVID-19 at significantly higher rates while oropharyngeal swab testing had lower rates.

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) The ongoing disruptive changes from efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are having a substantial negative impact on the physical and mental well-being of parents and their chil...

(Pennington Biomedical Research Center) A hormone that connects the body's metabolism and immune response system may explain why COVID-19 is so dangerous for people with obesity.

We've shut down schools during past pandemics. Does that mean we should for the coronavirus?

(Radboud University Medical Center) When two pairs of previously healthy young brothers from two families required mechanical ventilation at the intensive care unit in rapid succession, doctors and researchers at Radboud...

(University of South Florida (USF Health)) Sarah Yuan, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, has received a highly competit...

(University of Bath) Young men can eat twice as much food as they need to feel 'full', research shows.

(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) Research conducted at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and The Ohio State University College of Medicine found that spinal cord injuries in mice cause an acqui...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A new study of human olfactory cells has revealed that viral invasion of supportive cells in the nasal cavity might be driving the loss of smell seen in some patients...

(American Society for Microbiology) Researchers have shown that there is a low risk for healthy people to acquire Candida auris during travel. The research is presented at ASM Microbe Online, the annual meeting of the Am...

(RCSI) The COVID-19 pandemic is a catalyst to accelerate the adoption of technology-enabled patient care for epilepsy, according to a new study published in Epilepsia.

(Duke-NUS Medical School) As the current COVID-19 pandemic continues to adversely impact communities and economies across the world, efficiency in testing for the infection and antibodies is vital. A unique and rapid SAR...

(Penn State) The National Institutes of Health awarded Penn State researchers a $1.85 million grant to develop a new way to test if dysfunctions in certain areas of the brain lead to mental health complications and brain...

(King's College London) Patients with frailty, older age and urinary tract infections (UTIs) are at greatest risk of developing sepsis following infection consultations in primary care, research has found.

(University of Kansas) With an $84,940 award from the National Institute of Mental Health, Danielle Chapa will investigate causes and effects of excessive exercise on people with eating disorders.

(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) At La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) researchers are dedicated to finding a way to stop plaques from forming in the first place. In a new study, LJI scientists show that certain ...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The new 2 book set will give a comprehensive picture of perinatal cardiology to medical scholars and professionals.

(Harvard Medical School) Loss of smell, or anosmia, is one of the earliest and most commonly reported symptoms of COVID-19. A new study identifies the olfactory cell types most vulnerable to infection by the novel corona...

(Cell Press) An experimental messenger RNA (mRNA)-based vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) elicits protective immune responses in mice and non-human primates, researchers report ...