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COVID-19 targets the types of cells that are found in the nose. Researchers say an exposed nose likely makes someone more prone to getting infected.

(Case Western Reserve University) Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine seek to optimize emerging methods of diagnosing two common neurodegenerative diseases -- dementia with Lewy bodies and P...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago will lead a $7.1 million, five-year national study to determine the effectiveness of acupuncture and guided relaxation for people with...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A new report suggests that lingering "brain fog" and other neurological symptoms after COVID -19 recovery may be due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an e...

(Fleishman‑Hillard, Sacramento) Findings from a new study among mice show a diet high in dried plum (prunes) completely prevents bone loss associated with spinal cord injury (SCI), while also restoring some of the bone...

(American College of Physicians) The American College of Physicians (ACP) conveyed their strong support for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) decision to implement changes in payments and documentatio...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Only about one in every 170 children take them. But "orphan drugs" accounted for 1 in every 15 private insurance dollars spent on children's health care in the United States i...

(Cornell University) Surviving on a warming planet can be a matter of timing--but simply shifting lifecycle stages to match the tempo of climate change has hidden dangers for some animals, according to new research from ...

(Cleveland Clinic) The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a grant expected to total $3.8 million to Virendra Mishra, Ph.D., associate staff at C...

(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) New research shows that a high sugar diet during the breastfeeding period can impact developmental outcomes during infancy.

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Topics from internet addiction to the mechanisms of pain / A total of approximately €30 million for the first funding period

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) As the number of new cases of COVID-19 begin to increase again in our area and as schools face the challenge of how to safely remain open, a new research study could detect when clusters of...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) According to a new Chinese study, wearing eyeglasses for more than eight hours per day may offer some protection against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. A Johns Hopkins Medicine infec...

(Lancaster University) After examining the brainstems of 186 young Mexico City residents aged between 11 months and 27 years of age, researchers, including Professor Barbara Maher from Lancaster University, found markers...

(Penn State) New analysis of the DNA sequence of the male-specific Y chromosomes from all living species of the great ape family helps to clarify our understanding of how this enigmatic chromosome evolved.

(University of California - San Francisco) Expanding routine newborn screening to include a metabolic vulnerability profile could lead to earlier detection of life-threatening complications in babies born preterm, accord...

(Gladstone Institutes) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted an NIH Director's New Innovator Award to Seth Shipman, PhD, assistant investigator at Gladstone Institutes. The award will support the developmen...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were more often male, younger, and had fewer underlying medical conditions than hospitalized influenza patients, found an international stud...

(University of Cambridge) Imaging techniques could replace the need for invasive tissue biopsies in helping rapidly determine whether cancer treatments are working effectively, according to researchers at the University ...

(Umea University) In some patients who died with severe COVID-19 and respiratory failure, a jelly was formed in the lungs. Researchers have now established what the active agent in the jelly is and thanks to that, this n...

(The University of Montana) University of Montana scientist Monica Serban is on a research roll. In recent months the UM associate professor and her team have earned three awards totaling $3.9 million in funding to study...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The NIH selected two researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania to receive its Director's Awards, part of the NIH Common Fund's High...