Medical News

(New York University) Gender, age, education level, and political affiliation predict where people turn for information about COVID-19 -- and what sources they use and trust is linked to differing beliefs about the pande...

(Virginia Tech) With a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers will build a cyberinfrastructure system, known as CI-WARS, for monitoring wastewater treatment plants for possible antibiotic re...

(Indiana University School of Medicine) Indiana University School of Medicine researchers are participating in the Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network (RADIANT), a nationwide study funded by the National Institutes of Hea...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Ableist language is often used by autism researchers, which assumes that autistic people are "broken" or inferior to non-autistic people.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) While the world waits eagerly for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infections from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, res...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Contrary to some claims, people in the US may not be substituting cannabis for opioids, New research at Columbia examined the direction and strength of association ...

(Penn State) A large, international study of COVID-19 patients confirmed that cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, stroke and cancer can increase a patient's r...

(Leopoldina) Since the end of July, the number of new infections with the coronavirus has been on the rise again in Germany. Because of falling temperatures and group activities being relocated indoors, the pandemic's de...

(Stony Brook University) Projections of temperatures and precipitation amounts in climate change scenarios may be a key component in a large research initiative with the goal to reduce schistosomiasis, also known as 'sna...

(American Heart Association) The majority of LGBTQ adults report experiencing discrimination from a health care professional.Compared to cisgender heterosexual adults, LGBTQ populations experience multi-level, psychologi...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) UCLA researchers have found that health inequities can be measured in children as young as 5 years old. The research, published in Health Affairs, contributes to a...

(Houston Methodist) Houston Methodist researchers used a second-generation prodrug called MP-Pt(IV) to target the deadly cells of glioblastoma tumors and found mice harboring human glioblastoma tumors in their brains had...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) The banyan fig tree Ficus microcarpa is famous for its aerial roots, which sprout from branches and eventually reach the soil. The tree also has a unique relation...

(Politecnico di Torino) The research carried out by the Politecnico di Torino shows that space flight ages astronauts' heart.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Dwaipayan Banerjee's new book examines the psychological and social terrain of living with cancer in a country where the disease has long been downplayed.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) For seven years now, the University of California system has been working hard to reduce its carbon emissions as part of its Carbon Neutrality Initiative. Each campus has been c...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) The Missouri Foundation for Health is co-funding the replication and rigorous examination of the outcomes of the Transitional Care Model at the VA St. Louis Health Care Syst...

(University of Southern California) Whether someone takes proper precautions to fight COVID-19 may be linked to whether they trust right- or left-leaning media outlets, according to a new study from the University of Sou...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will receive more than $7.3 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as part of the NCI's n...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A clinical trial to test the safety, tolerability and efficacy of a combination treatment regimen for COVID-19 consisting of the antiviral remdesivir plus a hig...

(University of Delaware) A UD research team has devised tiny cargo-carrying systems many times smaller than a human hair, made from molecules called peptides that help provide structure for cells and tissues. The team ha...

(The MIT Press) Peer reviewers highlight promising research that higher levels of cytokines IL-6 and IL-10 are associated with increased severity of COVID-19, while also flagging misleading research suggesting laboratory...