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(University of Southampton) A study by scientists from the University of Southampton has examined the chances of catching COVID-19 in a train carriage carrying an infectious person.

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) In a recently published study, investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital explore how the dynamics of bacterial species may influence the success of fecal microbiota transplantation in...

(PSE Healthy Energy) A review of the human health hazards, risks, and impacts of California wildfires, and impacts of policies aimed to prevent and mitigate wildfires to serve as a resource in the development and deploym...

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Is the long-term use of glucocorticoids essential in people with chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, or can early discontinuation prevent characteristic si...

(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) The ERC Proof of Concept grant offers 150,000 euros to fund the development of new drugs against fibrosis. The SENFIB project aims to eliminate senescent cells, dam...

(Weill Cornell Medicine) Dr. Sallie Permar, a physician-scientist who investigates the prevention and treatment of neonatal viral infections, and Dr. Stephen Patrick, a neonatologist focused on the impact of the opioid e...

(American Thoracic Society) It's not too late to complete your free registration for ATS 2020 Virtual, the American Thoracic Society's annual conference, which takes place on Aug. 5-10 with access through Nov. 10.

(Huntsman Cancer Institute) In a study published in the journal Leukemia, lead author Ami Patel, MD, Huntsman Cancer Institute researcher and assistant professor in the Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies...

(San Diego State University) When we say someone has a quick mind, it may be in part thanks to our expanded cerebellum that distinguishes human brains from those of macaque monkeys, for example.High-res imaging shows the...

(Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation) Grants totaling nearly $3.5 million give early career investigators independence to pursue brave and bold cancer research.

(European Society for Medical Oncology) An ESMO interdisciplinary expert consensus paper on how to manage cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic has been published today in Annals of Oncology, encouraging medical o...

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) Faculty from Wayne State University's Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences are leading a team of researchers to understand the caus...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) A new study shows that moist heat treatment of N95 masks eliminates severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and bacteria, which would allow reuse of these scarc...

(IOS Press) Affirmativ Health sought to determine whether a comprehensive and personalized program, designed to mitigate risk factors of Alzheimer's disease could improve cognitive and metabolic function in individuals e...

(University of California - Riverside) John Franchak has long been interested in how learning a new motor skill, such as sitting or walking, changes how infants interact with their surroundings. He has now been awarded a...

(The Lancet) Frontline healthcare workers may have substantially higher risk of reporting a positive test for COVID-19 than people from the general population, according to an observational study of almost 100,000 health...