Medical News

(NYU Tandon School of Engineering) Employing novel, three-dimensional geospatial methods, as well as two-dimensional virus mapping, an NYU Tandon team captured hyper-local data on movement of people when leaving high inf...

(National Comprehensive Cancer Network) The NCCN Virtual Nursing Forum and Annual Congress: Hematologic Malignancies (#NCCNhem20) will provide the latest evidence and expert consensus on emerging practices and debates in...

(Regenstrief Institute) A lay person's guide to COVID-19, a 10-week virtual series (Oct. 8 - Dec. 17), hosted by the Indiana Pandemic Information Collaborative (IPIC), will provide insight into a variety of topics about ...

(University of Bath) The new study looked at the combined effects of disrupted sleep and caffeine on our metabolism - with surprising results.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Residents of counties that experience persistent poverty face a disproportionately high risk of cancer mortality.

(Taylor & Francis Group) The best way to communicate with parent smokers about the risks of secondhand smoke to their children is to use videos depicting the risks, as well as solutions to reduce those risks.

(Tufts University) Tufts University will lead a $100 million, five-year multi-institution program to understand and address threats posed by zoonotic viral diseases that can "spill over" from animals to humans, such as S...

(King's College London) A new analysis of data from researchers at King's College London using information from the COVID Symptom Study app and patients admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in London, has shown that delirium ...

(Hackensack Meridian Health) Research findings published Aug. 14, 2020 in the journal Cancer Research suggest that since some cancer treatments can be undermined by epigenetic changes (altered DNA methylation affecting g...

(Walter Reed Army Institute of Research) Scientists at the WRAIR and ARL developed a computer-based training to reduce anger, reactive aggression and hostile attribution bias--the tendency to attribute hostile intent to ...

(St. Michael's Hospital) Cannabinoids, a class of prescription pills that contain synthetically-made chemicals found in marijuana, are associated with a 64 per cent increase in death among older adults with chronic obstr...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) To help reduce COVID-19-related health disparities in vulnerable populations in Texas, a multi-institutional team of researchers led by The University of Texas Healt...

(The Gerontological Society of America) The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) -- the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging -- has developed a COVID-19 decision aid to help pe...

(Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) Modifiable health risks, such as obesity, high blood pressure, and smoking, were linked to over $730 billion in health care spending in the US in 2016, according to a study p...

(University of California - Irvine) In a new study, published in Current Biology, researchers from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine reveal how subanesthetic ketamine, which is used for pain managem...

(University of Oxford) Researchers at the University of Oxford are starting a new study to explore the effectiveness of the anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) drug adalimumab as a treatment for patients with COVID-19...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Homeless New Yorkers who menstruate face numerous challenges due to inadequate access to toilets, bathing spaces, and laundering services, as well as pervasive mens...

(Michigan State University) Teens who have a larger number of friends may be less likely to suffer from depression later in life, especially women, a new MSU research study has found.

(University of Montreal) Developed in Canada, the UM171 molecule was used in a blood transplant by a Montreal medical team on a young man suffering from severe aplastic anemia, an autoimmune disease.

(Medical University of South Carolina) An MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher received a $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study how patterns of collagens can serve as biomarkers of breast cancer ...

(Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University) Genetic variants that leave their carrier more susceptible to severe COVID-19 are inherited from Neanderthals, finds a new study published in Natur...

(Hokkaido University) Scientists have identified key molecules that mediate radioresistance in glioblastoma multiforme; these molecules are a potential target for the treatment of this brain cancer.