Medical News
COVID-19 provides rare opportunities for studying natural and human systems
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Stanford University) Researchers at Stanford and other institutions hypothesize outcomes of the pandemic's unprecedented socioeconomic disruption and outline research priorities for advancing our understanding of humans...
Mood homeostasis before, during COVID-19 lockdown
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(JAMA Network) Mood homeostasis (the ability to stabilize your mood with mood-modifying activities) before and during the COVID-19 lockdown among Dutch students was investigated in this observational study.
Stand Up To Cancer awards $1.1 million in grants to research teams
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Stand Up To Cancer) Stand Up To Cancer announced today five new awards that will cut across institutional and national lines to foster collaborative research and explore new paths to improve cancer treatment. The projec...
COVID-19 risk model uses hospital data to guide decisions on social distancing
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of Texas at Austin) With communities throughout the United States combating surges in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern University have cre...
Fracture risk associated with bisphosphonate drug holidays
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Ruhr-University Bochum) Bisphosphonates have been shown to reduce the risk of osteoporotic fractures. To avoid possible side effects of long-term therapy, many patients take a drug holiday after several years of bisphos...
Peering into the secrets of phages to see how they kill bacterial superbugs
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Monash University) A research collaboration involving Monash University has made an exciting discovery that may eventually lead to targeted treatments to combat drug-resistant bacterial infections, one of the greatest t...
Clinical trial tests oral cancer drug to combat respiratory symptoms of COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center -- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute and The Ohio State University...
UC San Diego scientists part of special package of studies describing human genome
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine are among the contributors to a package of 10 studies in the journal Nature, describing the latest results from the ongoing Encycloped...
US should consider 'stay-at-home' cooling options during pandemic
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of Sydney) A new study from Australian scientists at the forefront of climate and health modelling suggests electric fans and water dousing could be a viable stay-at-home cooling strategy as the United States...
Association between statewide school closure, COVID-19 incidence, mortality in US
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(JAMA Network) This population epidemiology study estimates associations of school closures in the U.S. and the timing of those closures in March with change in daily COVID-19 incidence and mortality through the first we...
Berlin and Oxford establish the Centre for Advanced Studies
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) The Berlin University Alliance and the University of Oxford are taking forward their research partnership with the establishment of a Centre for Advanced Studies.
Americans are consuming less sugar but more nonnutritive sweeteners
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Elsevier) A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, published by Elsevier, found that between 2002 and 2018 purchases by US households of foods and beverages containing caloric sweetener (CS,...
Pregnant Black and Hispanic women five times more likely to be exposed to coronavirus
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Black and Hispanic pregnant women in Philadelphia are five times as likely as white and Asian women to have been exposed to the novel coronavirus, according to a new study ...
ENCODE3: Interpreting the human and mouse genomes
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) An international consortium of approximately 500 scientists, led in part by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, reports on the completion of Phase 3 of the ENCODE project, provid...
COVID-19 may cause deadly blood clots
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) COVID-19 may increase the risk of blot cots in women who are pregnant or taking estrogen with birth control or hormone replacement therapy, according to a new manuscript published in the Endocrine...
Young innovative scientists receive Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Research awards
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation) The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named two outstanding young scientists as recipients of the Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award, committing nearly...
Characteristics of nursing homes with residents infected with COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(JAMA Network) Characteristics of nursing homes that reported COVID-19 cases in 23 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
COVID-19: Social media users more likely to believe false information
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(McGill University) A new study led by researchers at McGill University finds that people who get their news from social media are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19. Those that consume more traditional ne...
How women and men forgive infidelity
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Men and women react differently to different types of infidelity. But new findings about how we forgive unfaithfulness on the part of our partners surprised researchers.
Genetically similar fungi cause severe infections in different hospitals
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Present in the human digestive tract, species of Candida can cause bloodstream infections in patients treated in hospital intensive care units. An international stu...
Gender gaps in surgical specialties may take decades to close
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Among the largest resident specialties in the US, little progress has been made in closing the gender gap, with most of the largest residencies demonstrating a less than 1 percent increase ...
Adverse effects from cancer drug trials explained
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Certain type of cancer drugs that promote the death of cells can actually be harmful if combined with other treatments that damage our DNA, RNA or proteins, researchers ha...