Medical News
Increasing the effectiveness of cancer treatments: Anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(Tokyo Medical and Dental University) Researh teams of Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have uncovered how to increase the efficacy of anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy. Using a combinat...
More than a billion school meals not served during pandemic: Study
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A new study estimates that more than 1.15 billion breakfasts and lunches for low-income children were not served in school as a result of school closures between Ma...
Immunotherapy improves survival in advanced bladder cancer patients
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(Queen Mary University of London) An immunotherapy drug called 'avelumab' has been shown to significantly improve survival in patients with the most common type of bladder cancer, according to results from a phase III cl...
INRS researcher receives $670,000 grant to continue research on Batten's disease
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Institut de la recherche scientifique (INRS) announces that Stéphane Lefrançois, a professor at its Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie (AFSB), has recei...
Unleashing Canada's radiopharmaceutical excellence
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(PR Associates) The Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC) and adMare BioInnovations (adMare) are pleased to announce they have formed a new collaboration, "The CPDC-adMare Radiopharmaceutical Initiati...
New method identifies antibody-like proteins with diagnostic and therapeutic potential for SARS-CoV-2
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Scientists have used a new high-speed, in vitro selection method to isolate 9 antibody-like proteins (ALPs) that bind to the SARS-CoV-2 virus - 4 of which also exhibi...
CU researchers call for national ethics guidelines when student health surveys uncover suicide-risk
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) In a report published today in the highly influential American Journal of Bioethics, the researchers describe a student health survey team that discovered a Colorado schoo...
Human genetics: A look in the mirror
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(Molecular Biology and Evolution (Oxford University Press)) Genome Biology and Evolution's latest virtual issue highlights recent research published in the journal within the field of human genetics.
Tequila Might Make You Do Crazy Things -- But Not For the Reasons You Think
Discover - 18 Sep 2020 21:10
Science says you can't blame your bad behavior on your beverage of choice.
Gene therapy corrects the cardiac effects of Friedreich's ataxia
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Gene therapy was successfully used to overcome the cardiac effects of Freidreich's ataxia (FA) in a mouse model of the disease
Evidence-based vocational rehab practices raise employment rates after spinal cord injury
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(Kessler Foundation) Evidence-based practices that are raising post-injury employment rates include the individualized placement support model of supported employment, and vocational resource facilitation (VRF), accordin...
Confidence in the authorities' handling of COVID-19 provides good mental health
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(UiT The Arctic University of Norway) How did you react in March, when the country went into lock-down due to the coronavirus? Psychology experts at UiT The Arctic University of Norway have studied our reaction patterns ...
Increasing the effectiveness of immunotherapy against skin cancer
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of Bern) Researchers at the University of Bern have discovered a mechanism in the body's own immune system which is responsible for the maturation and activation of immune cells. In the fight against skin can...
Buffalo-based study aims to connect the dots on food access
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(University at Buffalo) A new University at Buffalo study based in Western New York is the first that simultaneously examined the preferences of community members and compared those with the community-based programs and ...
Mosquito-borne viruses linked to stroke
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of Liverpool) A deadly combination of two mosquito-borne viruses may be a trigger for stroke, new University of Liverpool research published in the The Lancet Neurology has found.
Attend the 2020 ACAAI Annual Scientific Meeting from where you are sitting right now
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology) This year's groundbreaking allergy and asthma news from the ACAAI Annual Scientific Meeting will be delivered virtually, and for free.
New roles for clinicians in the age of artificial intelligence
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(Compuscript Ltd) New Roles for Clinicians in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this opinion article the authors Fengyi Zeng, Xiaowen Liang and Zhiyi ...
New way to halt leukemia relapse shown promising in mice
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(Hiroshima University) Drugs tackling chronic myelogenous leukemia have completely transformed prognoses of patients over the last couple of decades, with most cases going into remission. But drug resistance can occur, l...
Nose's response to odors more than just a simple sum of parts
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(Kyushu University) Based on highly sensitive recordings of neuron activity in the noses of mice, researchers from Kyushu University have found that olfactory sensory neurons can exhibit suppression or enhancement of res...
Potential new drug to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 infection consequences
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of Malaga) Researchers at the University of Malaga study how '4-PBA' treatment modulates the inflammatory response in severe cases of COVID-19
Study links rising stress, depression in US to pandemic-related losses, media consumption
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of California - Irvine) Experiencing multiple stressors triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic - such as unemployment - and COVID-19-related media consumption are directly linked to rising acute stress and depres...
Sutter receives funding for collaboration of care
EurekAlert! - 18 Sep 2020 06:00
(George Mason University) Rebecca Sutter, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, received $62,500 from Action in the Community Through Service (ACTS) for: "ACTSPWC - GMU Collaboration of Care."