Medical News
A bifidobacterial protein that can reduce inflammation in COVID-19 found by a RUDN geneticist
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(RUDN University) A geneticist from RUDN University studied the effect of Bifidobacterium (intestinal bacteria) on the inflammatory process and discovered that their surface protein is capable of stopping excessive or un...
Researchers receive $45 million grant to study health disparities in Alzheimer's disease
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of North Texas Health Science Center) The 5-year research grant, awarded to Sid O'Bryant, PhD, Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for Translational Research, and Leigh Johnson, PhD, Associate P...
Why It Feels Like You Can't Breathe Inside Your Face Mask -- and What to Do About It
Discover - 14 Sep 2020 22:00
Masks don't compromise your oxygen levels, but they can still disrupt breathing patterns, leaving you feeling dizzy or winded.
BU researchers awarded NIH grant to create new framingham heart study brain aging program
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Boston University School of Medicine) Since 1976, the Framingham Heart Study (FHS)--the longest running multi-generational epidemiological study in the world--has followed participants for incident dementia. The finding...
Boston University researchers to develop new breast tumor models
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Boston University School of Medicine) Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers Gerald Denis, PhD, Andrew Emili, PhD, and Stefano Monti, PhD, together with Beth Israel Deaconess/Harvard Medical School rese...
COVID-19 measures deepening health inequalities in slum communities
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of Warwick) Efforts to stem the impact of COVID-19 in low to middle income countries could be creating a health time bomb in their slum communities by deepening existing inequalities, according to an internat...
CCNY engineer Xi Chen and partners create new shape-changing crystals
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(City College of New York) Imagine harnessing evaporation as a source of energy or developing next generation actuators and artificial muscles for a broad array of applications. These are the new possibilities with the c...
Detection of PCBs and their metabolites (OH-PCBs) in the fetal brain of a Japanese macaque
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Ehime University) This study selected the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) as a model animal for the fetal transfer of OH-PCBs in humans, and revealed OH-PCB concentrations and their relationships in the maternal and f...
COVID-19 pandemic halts cancer care and damages oncologists' wellbeing
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(European Society for Medical Oncology) Delays and cancellation of cancer treatments and other safety measures undertaken to minimise the risk of exposure to the coronavirus (COVID-19) have generated a huge backlog in on...
Certain coping strategies can help offset pandemic's mental health hits
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Penn State) The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to negative mental health effects for many in the U.S., according to new Penn State research. But the researchers also found that some coping techniques --...
Children's Hospital Los Angeles is US site for $7M study of COVID-19 transmission
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) Researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, as well as in Nicaragua and New Zealand, are enrolling 250-325 households in a new study designed to study...
Combining two precision medicines can treat drug-resistant cancers
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Institute of Cancer Research) Launching a dual-pronged attack on tumours using a combination of two innovative precision medicines could treat patients with multiple common cancers, a new clinical trial shows.
Cool eyes on fever screening: Optimizing infrared thermography
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics) A report published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics provides insights for optimizing infrared thermograph-based fever screening. Thermography using infrared therm...
DNA damage caused by migrating light energy
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ) Ultraviolet light endangers the integrity of human genetic information and may cause skin cancer. For the first time, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) h...
DNA webs may drive lung pathology in severe COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Rockefeller University Press) Sticky webs of DNA released from immune cells known as neutrophils may cause much of the tissue damage associated with severe COVID-19 infections, according to two new studies published Sep...
Botox for TMJ disorders may not lead to bone loss in the short term, but more research is needed
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(New York University) Botox injections to manage jaw and facial pain do not result in clinically significant changes in jaw bone when used short term and in low doses, according to researchers at NYU College of Dentistry...
Doctors get plenty of advice on starting treatment; this could help them know when to stop
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Decades of effort have improved the chances that patients will get the scans, routine tests and medicines that can do them the most good - and avoid the ones that won't help t...
Drug for common liver condition may be an effective treatment for dementia
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of York) A team of researchers, led by the University of York, have identified new proteins involved in protecting neurons and discovered that Ursodeoxycholic Acid - an already approved drug, with very low to...
Early steroids improve outcomes in patients with septic shock
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Wolters Kluwer Health) Some critically ill patients with septic shock need medications called vasopressors to correct dangerously low blood pressure. When high doses of vasopressors are needed or blood pressure isn't re...
Embryos taking shape via buckling
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(Université de Genève) The embryo of an animal first looks like a hollow sphere. Invaginations then appear at different stages of development, which will give rise to the body's structures. Although buckling could be t...
Excessive lung release of neutrophil DNA traps may explain severe complications in Covid-19 patients
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of Liege) Researchers from the University of Liège (Belgium) has detected significant amounts of DNA traps in distinct compartments of the lungs of patients who died from Covid-19. These traps, called NETs, ...
Finding the best way to get COVID-19 test kits where they're needed
EurekAlert! - 14 Sep 2020 06:00
(North Carolina State University) Getting accurate, timely information on COVID-19 cases is one of the major challenges facing policymakers as they make decisions about public health and the economy. Researchers at North...