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(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) The National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education fosters excellence in nursing education by recognizing and capitalizing on the wisdom of outstanding individuals...

If the 1976 Swine flu debacle and Polio's Cutter incident didn't sour Americans on vaccine safety, what did?

(University of Connecticut) Dr. Ibrahim Elali, a nephrologist and assistant professor in the UConn School of Medicine, has developed DecideDiet to help patients manage medical conditions like heart and kidney disease wit...

(McGill University) McGill University professor Nicole Basta and her team have created an interactive online COVID-19 vaccine tracker, that provides real-time updates on progress in developing a safe and effective vaccin...

(Parkinson's UK) A world-first double-blind clinical trial, will investigate if a powerful drug used to treat nausea in chemotherapy patients, could alleviate hallucinations in people with Parkinson's.

(University of Basel) Shortly after the lockdown began, a huge number of volunteers signed up to help people in coronavirus risk groups - primarily via online platforms. A study by the University of Basel has found that ...

(The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth) Findings from a new study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and published in the journal Preventive Medicine Reports, show that invol...

(University of Cambridge) Scientists have used genome sequencing to reveal the extent to which a drug-resistant gastrointestinal bacterium can spread within a hospital, highlighting the challenge hospitals face in contro...

(NRG Oncology) Bladder preservation with trimodality therapy can be a safe and effective alternative to cystectomy for selected patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. The phase II NRG Oncology NRG-RTOG 0712 trial ...

(Picower Institute at MIT) Award recognizes Brown for research that has produced principled and efficient new methods for decoding patterns of neural and brain network activity and has advanced neuroscientific understand...

(The Reis Group) Valleywise Health of Phoenix, America's Essential Hospitals, and a dozen essential hospitals - those with a safety-net mission - joined together in an urgent call for all Americans to remain vigilant and...

(American Institute of Physics) In Physics of Fluids, researchers used a model to understand airborne transmission that is designed to be accessible to a wide range of people, including nonscientists. Employing concepts ...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of maternal mortality in the United States, but a new study suggests specialized cardio-obstetrics teams may improve outcomes.

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Sometimes, what seems like a good way to explain the world--a model--turns out to be wrong. CSHL machine learning researchers developed a way to find the best answers to complicated questi...

(German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ)) Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center and the Mannheim Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg identified a new way to block th...

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Whether or not we're aware of it, humans -- animals in general -- constantly use environmental cues to navigate from one place to another. We choose a feature from the landscape...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Since COVID-19 began its menacing march across Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and then across the world, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has tak...

(Karolinska Institutet) Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Danderyd Hospital in Sweden have studied the risk of additional myocardial infarctions and early death in severely obese patients who undergo metabolic sur...

(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig) Intensive land-use reduces beneficial effects of biodiversity on ecosystem services. This is the main result of a study led by the Helmholtz...

(NIH/National Institute on Aging) National Institute on Aging experts are available to further explain and analyze some of the latest research as presented at the 13th Annual International Conference on Clinical Trials f...

(NRG Oncology) An analysis of the phase III NRG Oncology clinical trial RTOG 9601 on men receiving salvage radiotherapy (SRT) following prostatectomy for recurrent prostate cancer indicated that, while biochemical failur...

(New York University) Roughly half of US dentists experienced verbal or reputational aggression by patients in the past year, and nearly one in four endured physical aggression, according to a new study led by researcher...