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What Is Inflammation, and Why Is It Sometimes 'Bad' for Your Health?
Discover - 21 Sep 2020 20:15
The buzzword health condition can help or harm, depending on the situation.
'Best' hospitals should be required to deliver tobacco treatment
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of California - Los Angeles) A UCLA-led report published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine exposes what the authors call a weakness in the high-profile 'Best Hospitals...
Cleveland Clinic study finds no link between influenza vaccine and COVID-19 risk
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Cleveland Clinic) Using patient data from Cleveland Clinic's COVID-19 registry, Dr. Joe Zein found that receiving the flu vaccine does not increase risk for COVID-19 or worsen associated disease outcomes, suggesting it ...
Awareness of COVID-19 in severe dementia patients
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(IOS Press) Tokyo, September 21, 2020- The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has substantially affected patients with dementia and their caregivers.
BU researchers discover how COVID-19 may trigger fatal levels of lung inflammation
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Boston University School of Medicine) Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, requires models that can duplicate disease development in humans, identify potential targets and ena...
Belief in conspiracy theories is a barrier to controlling spread of COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania) Belief in conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic was inversely related to the perceived threat of the pandemic; taking of preventive actions,...
Biomarker indicating neurodegeneration identified in the eye
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Boston Medical Center) A new study led by Boston Medical Center researchers indicates a well-known biomarker that serves as a marker for earlier diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases is now detectable in the eye. Neur...
Bird beak revealed by HKU-codeveloped laser imaging informs early beak function and development
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(The University of Hong Kong) Confuciusornis was a crow-like fossil bird that lived in the Cretaceous ~120 million years ago. It was one of the first birds to evolve a beak (Fig. 1). Early beak evolution remains understu...
Black women may be less likely to receive timely treatment for breast cancer
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Wiley) New research suggests that Black women experience longer waits for treatment initiation than white women after a breast cancer diagnosis, and their duration of treatment is prolonged. The findings are published e...
COVID-19 screening of asymptomatic people could decrease infections, deaths
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Massachusetts General Hospital) When the COVID-19 pandemic is slowing, low-cost, recurring screening of asymptomatic people could decrease infections and deaths and be cost-effective.
CSU secures $3.1 million from NIH to advance SolaVAX coronavirus vaccine research
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Colorado State University) SolaVAX repurposes a commercial platform that is currently used to inactivate pathogens in blood transfusions.
Children with COVID-19 show different immune responses, but better outcomes than adults
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A comparison of children and adults hospitalized with COVID-19 reveals pediatric patients, who had better outcomes and shorter hospital stays, displayed altered immun...
'Front of package' nutrition labels improved nutrition quality
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(North Carolina State University) A new study analyzing 16 years of data on tens of thousands of products finds that the adoption of nutrition data on "front of package" labels is associated with improved nutritional con...
Deep Longevity reveals Young.ai - artificial intelligence for tracking aging in humans
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Deep Longevity Ltd) Deep Longevity scientists reveal a comprehensive integrated system of aging and longevity biomarkers dubbed "deep aging clocks" to be released on 29th of September, 2020
Despite coronavirus: Social contacts increase again
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) Arrange a get-together with friends, enjoy life out in the fresh air: Despite the corona pandemic, everyday life is returning to normal. This is indicated by the current survey...
Discovery of druggable pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein could stop virus in its tracks
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of Bristol) A druggable pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein that could be used to stop the virus from infecting human cells has been discovered by an international team of scientists led by the University ...
Educational intervention before 'first sex' can protect sexual health of black males
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A new Johns Hopkins Medicine study adds to evidence that the earlier parents, educators and health care workers have age-appropriate and frank discussions about safe sex, the better will be their...
Evaluating impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on children and young people
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Children, who appear at a relatively lower risk from COVID-19, are disproportionally harmed by precautions involved with lockdowns, say Matthew Snape and Russell Vine...
Falling Medicare reimbursement rates for orthopaedic trauma
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Wolters Kluwer Health) The amount Medicare reimburses for orthopaedic trauma surgery has fallen by nearly one-third over the past two decades, reports a study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. The journal is publish...
Genomic adaptations to a rice-based diet mitigate the risk of obesity and diabetes
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Universit di Bologna) Populations of China, Korea, and Japan first adopted rice as their main source of nutrition more than 10,000 years ago. As a result, they have developed genomic adaptations that are protecting them...
HHRI awarded continuation of SRTR contract
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute) The Chronic Disease Research Group (CDRG) of the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) has renewed its federal contract to operate the Scientific Registry of Transplant Re...
How to improve the surgery backlog during COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 21 Sep 2020 06:00
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, many non-urgent surgeries were delayed. Now, a new paper explains how to address the backlog of surgeries, without compromising patient...