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Evidence suggests that humans' sleep was once disjointed, but researchers can't quite figure out why.

(West Virginia University) A study led by Stacy Tressler--who earned her doctorate in epidemiology from the West Virginia University School of Public Health--suggests that local health departments are vital to getting th...

(Case Western Reserve University) New research funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) aims to boost understanding of how the immune system responds to COVID-19, from the start of infection to recovery.

(American Heart Association) Researchers enrolled 5,000 patients across the Mass General Brigham health system in Boston, Massachusetts in a remote, cholesterol and blood pressure management program utilizing care naviga...

(Critical Path Institute (C-Path)) The Critical Path Institute's Critical Path for Alzheimer's Disease Consortium today announced its participation as a Partner with the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative, a 501(c)(3) m...

(University of Seville) The acebuche, also know as the wild olive tree, is a variety of tree widely found throughout Spain and covering almost nine million hectares in Andalusia. However, little data is available on the ...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) In a controlled study of smokers, nonsmokers, and e-cigarette users, University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers found that e-cigarette users exhibited significa...

(Stanford Medicine) More than half of all in-hospital deaths due to COVID-19 during the first six months of 2020 were among Black and Hispanic patients, according to a new study led by researchers at the Stanford Univers...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) COVID-19 can directly cause neurologic symptoms and long-term neurological disease. Elevations of blood biomarkers indicative of brain injury have been reported in the bl...

(University of Göttingen) Many diseases, such as COVID-19, made the jump from animals to people with serious consequences for the human host. International researchers, including Göttingen University, say that more epi...

(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced that the 2021 Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Summit will now take place as a virtual event called CTO Connect. It will take p...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) In the hours and days after a traumatic brain injury, inflammation inside the brain can accelerate to the point that more brain damage occurs, says a scientist working t...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Can early-stage prostate cancer "vanish" during follow-up? More likely the cancer is just "hidden"--either way, negative biopsies during active surveillance for prostate cancer are associated with...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) 'The urgent need for COVID-19 vaccines must be balanced with the imperative of ensuring safety and public confidence in vaccines by following the established clinical...

(Duke University Medical Center) An aggressive COVID-19 surveillance and testing effort at Duke University was highly effective in minimizing the spread of the disease among students on campus, according to a case study ...

(KU Leuven) New research has shown that the antidepressant sertraline helps to inhibit the growth of cancer cells. The substance acts on a metabolic addiction that allows different types of cancer to grow. This is shown ...

(University of North Carolina at Charlotte) The UNC Charlotte study examined financial penalties imposed by government agencies using a sample of 26 large pharmaceutical firms over 13 years. Results indicated that 22 fir...

(Center for BrainHealth ) The Center for BrainHealth, part of The University of Texas at Dallas, recently hosted the first-ever virtual iteration of the annual Friends of BrainHealth Scientist Selection Luncheon, during ...

(European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation) The G-BA published its directions on the treatment of German patients with CAR T-cell therapies. According to the decision, beside structural and qualification requ...

(Duke-NUS Medical School) A Duke-NUS Medical School study finds that new labels may be needed to help consumers make healthier food purchases.

(American Heart Association) A high-dose, trivalent influenza vaccine was no more effective than the standard-dose quadrivalent vaccine at reducing the risk of death or hospitalization for heart or lung-related causes am...

(American Thoracic Society) The latest clinical practice guideline on home oxygen therapy addresses long-term and ambulatory oxygen therapy for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and interstitial lu...