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(JAMA Network) Psychological symptoms, nonsuicidal self-injury and suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts among children and adolescents were investigated in this observational study before the COVID-19 outbreak started ...

(Huntsman Cancer Institute) Newly published research has reversed our understanding of an aspect of kidney tumor growth. Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah discovered that two key proteins...

(Arizona State University) In a new paper in the PERSPECTIVES section of the journal Science, Melissa Wilson reviews current research into patterns of sex differences in gene expression across the genome, and highlights ...

(Northwestern University) Severely ill COVID-19 patients on ventilators are placed in a prone (face down) position because it's easier for them to breathe and reduces mortality. But that life-saving position can also cau...

(American College of Physicians) Counts based on death certificates underestimate COVID-19 mortality rates.

(JAMA Network) This study investigated the use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in competitive college athletes who recovered from COVID-19 to detect myocardial inflammation that would identify high-risk athletes fo...

(JAMA Network) Researchers compared changes from 2000 to 2017 in premature deaths in the US due to drug poisonings, suicide and alcohol-induced causes by geographic areas and demographic characteristics.

(Michigan State University) Michigan State University researchers are leading an effort to use innovative diamond devices to monitor the brain's biochemistry for early warning signs of disease.

(Nanjing University School of Life Sciences) In a new study in Cell Discovery, Liang Li and Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing University and two other groups report that SIDT1 polymorphism remarkably decreases HD-MIR2911 ...

(Yale University) Researchers at Yale have identified a possible treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disease for which there is currently no cure or treatment, by targeting an enzyme that had ...

(JAMA Network) This observational study investigated demographic and military service characteristics associated with suicide risk among US veterans after the transition from active military service to civilian life.

(University of Leeds) New analysis by the University of Leeds and the University of Bern of more than 14,000 operations has found that using alcoholic chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) halves the risk of infection in certain...

(King's College London) New research shows improving the lifestyle of women with obesity during pregnancy could mean long-term cardiovascular benefits for their children.

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude researchers showed that an inherited variant of the GATA3 gene is tied to minimal residual disease levels and response to therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

(American College of Physicians) Today the American College of Physicians (ACP) sent a letter to every member of Congress stressing the importance that the planned increases in payments for evaluation and management (E/M...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Penn Medicine researchers have found that middle-aged individuals -- those born in the late 1960s and the 1970s -- may be in a perpetual state of H3N2 influenza virus susce...

(Université catholique de Louvain) Sophie Lucas (University of Louvain de Duve Institute) and her team succeeded in neutralising a molecule that blocks the immune system against cancer.UCLouvain scientists discovered th...

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) A group of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been able to show that maternal psychological wellbeing during pregnancy has a positive effect on newborn i...

(University of Turku) Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, have developed a test for ovarian cancer detection with a sensitivity 4.5 times higher than that of the conventional laboratory test. The simple late...

(Indiana University School of Medicine) Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are learning more about how a person's genes play a role in the possibility they'll suffer from alcoholic cirrhosis with the di...

(Virginia Tech) Ling Li has a lesson in one of his mechanical engineering courses on how brittle materials like calcium carbonate behave under stress. In it, he takes a piece of chalk composed of the compound and snaps i...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have conducted a study that has determined the role that a critical protein plays in the development of hai...