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(Massachusetts General Hospital) Evidence-based programs known to reverse the negative effects of poverty are being widely neglected, according to a new report in Health Affairs.

(Boston Medical Center) Antibiotics may be a good choice for some, but not all, patients with appendicitis, according to results from the Comparing Outcomes of antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) Trial reported toda...

(Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)) POSTECH professors Jeong Wook Lee and Gyoo Yeol Jung's team develops a one-pot diagnostic method for detecting pathogenic RNAs with PCR-level sensitivity. Diagnostic ...

(University College London) Numerous animals may be vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, according to a large study modelling how the virus might infect different animals' cells, led by UCL researche...

(Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ) From pollen forecasting, honey analysis and climate-related changes in plant-pollinator interactions, analysing pollen plays an important role in many areas of research...

(University of Ottawa) University of Ottawa study examines if the chronic health problems of people who live with serious mental illness overlooked by primary care providers

(University of California - Davis Health) A study of pregnant mice found high levels of folic acid were associated with significant changes in brain development of offspring.

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Children appear to be at greater risk of having high blood pressure when their mothers had the high blood pressure condition called preeclampsia during pregnan...

(Duke University) The parasites that cause 200 million cases of malaria each year can withstand feverish temperatures that make their human hosts miserable. Now, a Duke University-led team is beginning to understand how ...

(University of California - Riverside) A postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered Human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccination mandates fall short of ensuring both higher levels of ...

(University of Southern Denmark Faculty of Health Sciences) A new Danish study from the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark recently showed, that if athletes can p...

(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) A Ludwig Cancer Research study has uncovered a mechanism by which the tumor's harsh internal environment sabotages T lymphocytes, leading cellular agents of the anticancer immune re...

(University of South Florida (USF Innovation)) University of South Florida Professor Andrew Kramer is utilizing his internationally recognized expertise on the Ebola outbreak and applying it to help pinpoint how COVID-19...

(University of Chicago Medical Center) New research led by Neda Laiteerapong MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University Chicago Medicine, indicates the real value of adding a scribe to a medical practice.

(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Joe Verghese, M.B.B.S., M.S., an international leader in aging and cognition research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System, has received two grants fro...

(NIH/Office of the Director) National Institutes of Health intramural researcher Harvey J. Alter, M.D., has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C vir...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) In an in-depth study of neurons grown in laboratory petri dishes, National Institutes of Health researchers discovered how neuronal synapses find the energy t...

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) NIST has developed a way to increase the sensitivity of the primary test used to detect the virus that causes COVID-19. Applying the findings could make the nasal s...

(King's College London) Researchers at King's College London have developed a new method for helping detect congenital heart disease of a baby in pregnant mothers using MRI. Existing in-utero approaches are compromised b...

(University of Virginia Health System) The UVA team says its findings will help doctors and patients make better-informed treatment decisions, enhance the care of brain metastases, and enable hospitals to improve the coo...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) Pancreatic surgery: lower mortality with larger case volumesThe survival probabilities are higher in hospitals where complex pancreatic surgery is performed more freq...