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(Wolters Kluwer Health) As the COVID 19 pandemic continues, business leaders face critical decisions on how to safely reopen and resume operations. A set of general guidelines for Safely Returning America to Work was pub...

(University of Helsinki) The strongest associations were presented with azithromycin that is used for example to middle ear infections, strep throat and pneumonia.

(Wiley) A new study examines the effects of cancer and its treatment on the aging process. Investigators found that expression of a gene associated with aging is higher in young patients with cancer after treatment with ...

(University of Colorado Denver) CU Denver researcher and Business School associate professor Jiban Khuntia, PhD, found while social distancing is an effective preventative measure in the fight against COVID-19, there are...

(Deep Longevity Ltd) Deep Longevity scientists to present a new integrated system of deep biomarkers of aging and longevity at the 7th annual Aging Research and Drug Discovery conference

(European Society of Cardiology) Deep chest compressions can crack ribs, but they reduce brain damage during cardiac arrest, reports a study presented today at ESC Congress 2020. Study author Dr. Irene Marco Clement of U...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Dementia may be an underlying cause of nearly three times more deaths in the U.S. than official records show, according to a new Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) st...

(Ohio State University) Each person's gut virus composition is as unique as a fingerprint, according to the first study to assemble a comprehensive database of viral populations in the human digestive system.

(University of Washington) New research by the University of Minnesota and the University of Washington finds that every six additional ICU beds or seven additional non-ICU beds filled by COVID-19 patients leads to one a...

(University of Bonn) A congenital disorder of the fat metabolism can apparently cause chronic hyperreaction of the immune system. This is the conclusion reached by researchers from the University of Bonn in a recent stud...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) The immune protein STING has long been noted for helping protect against viruses and tumors by signaling a well-known immune molecule. Now, UT Southwestern scientists have revealed that S...

(University of Göttingen) Antibiotics are among the most important discoveries of modern medicine and have saved millions of lives since the discovery of penicillin almost 100 years ago. However, bacteria can develop re...

(University of Miami) When doctors are the same race as their patients, it can sometimes forge a sense of comfort that helps to reduce anxiety and pain, particularly for Black patients, new research from the University o...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Nonprescribed fentanyl and stimulants were the primary contributors to overdose mortality, while few people had prescribed opioids in their systems, according to new toxicology rese...

(Ohio State University) Splitting one type of cancer drug in half and delivering the pieces separately to cancer cells could reduce life-threatening side effects and protect healthy, non-cancerous cells, a new study sugg...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine report that the lasting nature of inflammatory bowel disease may be due to a type of long-lived immune cell that can provoke persisten...

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) A new study in the field of biophysics has revealed how large molecules are able to enter the nucleus of a cell.

(Yale University) Less is sometimes more when treating heart patients who go into shock after a heart attack.

(University of Melbourne) Voice memos from health workers in Australia and around the world are being collected via a private WhatsApp chat to capture their experience of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and improve f...

(International Food Policy Research Institute) Children living at high altitudes found to be more stunted, on average, than peers at lower altitudes. The deficit increases above 500 meters above sea level, and persists a...

(American College of Surgeons) CHICAGO: Surgical patients are more likely to experience a postoperative infection if they have low health literacy, which is a limited capacity to understand and act on health information,...