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A growing body of research suggests that it's a good idea to sync up meal times and our internal biological clocks.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Technology Transitions has announced a COVID-19 Technical Assistance Program that provides funding for national laboratory researchers to assist...

As schools try to respond to infection rates, policies meant to keep children safe are taking a toll on their health in other ways.

(The MIT Press) Peer reviews of a new study examining the relationship between Type 2 Diabetes and COVID-19 say the research is reliable and relevant, but also call for further investigation of this vital topic.

(University of North Carolina Health Care) A study by UNC researchers finds that neurodevelopmental scores and gray matter volumes at age two years did not differ between children who had MRI-confirmed asymptomatic subdu...

(The University of Bergen) How does Covid-19 affect sperm and thus the next generation´s immune system? Norwegian researchers are collecting sperm to find the answer.

(George Mason University) New research published in the VASCD Journal, A Case Study in Growing the Health Workforce Pipeline in Virginia, seeks to address these critical shortages in Virginia's health care workforce by e...

(Tohoku University) Regular training enhances your strength, but recovery is equally important. Elastic bandages and compression garments are widely used in sports to facilitate recovery and prevent injuries. Now, a rese...

(University of Texas at Austin) A study involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the virus that causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious...

(Yale School of Public Health) Using a new method for quantifying intersectional experiences, a new Yale School of Public Health study finds that Black LGBQ+ Americans tend to feel better about themselves after encounter...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Cancer immunotherapies are very effective for some patients, but many cancers do not respond to the currently available treatments. Researchers are developing a new approach that expands t...

(University of Southampton) A Southampton-developed healthcare app that helps people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) manage their condition can speed up recovery after hospital admission and reduce flar...

(Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) The floors of hospital rooms are frequently contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria within hours of patient admission, creating a route of transfer of potentially ...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers determined that COVID-19 transmission risk via Halloween candies is low, even when they are handled by infected people, but handwashing and disinfecting collected sweets...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) An evolving understanding of cancer that incorporates the physical properties of tumors and their surrounding tissues into existing biologic and genetic models can direct cancer researche...

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) A study by scientists at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues showed that mice exposed to potentially lethal levels of total body radiation were protected...

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Mobile smartphone technology can accelerate first responder dispatch and may be instrumental to improving out?of?hospital cardiac arrest (OCHA) survival.

(Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Erik Nelson has won a $4.5M Era of Hope ...

(Boston Medical Center) A new study led by researchers at Boston Medical Center examined what factors could be contributing to this inflammation, and they identified the inability to control HIV RNA production from exist...

(University of Kent) Researchers from the University of Kent, the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), and the Hannover Medical School (Germany) have identified a drug with the potential to provide a treatme...

(Medical University of South Carolina) MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers find a new way to generate T-cells faster, making immediate treatment with this therapy possible.

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) A new study examines local perceptions of Chagas disease in a region where the infectious agent is endemic. The results underline the need to take social and cultural factors in...