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(Estonian Research Council) Researchers and doctors from the University of Tartu and Tartu University Hospital evaluated the use of a novel revolutionary method, flow cytometry, for diagnosing urethritis in Estonian men....

(University of Copenhagen) Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and biotech firm Gubra have developed a new insulin molecule that will make blood sugar regulation both easier and safer for those with type 1 diab...

COVID-19 uprooted much of human life -- including how we do research. The pandemic could bring permanent changes to the field.

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Basic science research explores the effects of impaired glycine metabolism in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease - and how to potentially use glycine-based treatment to help peo...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A new study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers of adults hospitalized for the eating disorder anorexia nervosa has strengthened the case for promoting rapid weight gain as part of overall effo...

(University of Eastern Finland) Blackcurrants have a beneficial effect on post-meal glucose response, and the required portion size is much smaller than previously thought, a new study from the University of Eastern Finl...

(University of Leeds) A new study suggests that COVID-19 guidance in Sweden may have reduced people's risks of having a heart attack. By using anonymous location data from mobile phones, researchers developed an aggregat...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) New research has found that Chicago neighborhoods with barriers to social distancing, including limited access to broadband internet and low rates of health insurance, had more COVID-1...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial of pharmacogenetic testing related to cholesterol-lowering medications called statins.After one year, the cholesterol levels in the group...

(Compuscript Ltd) Experimental Study on the Viscoelastic Flow Mixing in Microfluidics a new publication for BIO Integration journal. In this article the authors Meng Zhang, Wu Zhang, Zihuang Wang and Weiqian Chen from Su...

(Geisinger Health System) Using a single ventilator to support two patients could be feasible in crisis situations involving a ventilator shortage, researchers have found.

(Huntsman Cancer Institute) Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah have identified a potential drug combination to treat uveal melanoma, a type of eye cancer. Lead author Amanda Truong, traine...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is proud to honour the 2020 recipients of its annual awards, all of whom share the Society's commitment to advancing the field of o...

(Le Bonheur Children's Hospital) Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center announced today that Amali Samarasinghe, PhD, was awarded the Charles and Amelia Gould Innovation awar...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) Low-dose CT for lung cancer screening: benefit outweighs potential harmAn earlier initial diagnosis can reduce lung cancer mortality in heavy (ex-)smokers. The benefi...

(University of California - Santa Cruz) When Terrie Williams began hearing about the wide range of symptoms experienced by patients with COVID-19, she saw a connection between the various ways the disease is affecting pe...

(Washington State University) Scientists used human white blood cell membranes to carry two drugs, an antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory, directly to infected lungs in mice. The nano-sized drug delivery method successfu...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Mortality rates after cancer surgery declined for Black as well as white patients during a recent ten-year period, although the mortality gap between the two groups did not narrow, accordin...

(York University) In 2019, the Global Health Law Consortium, hosted at York U, analyzed key aspects of the International Health Regulations (IHR) to authoritatively interpret what countries are legally allowed to do duri...

(Elsevier) North Carolina Central University's Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute is launching a pilot program to examine how research-based health findings can be used more effectively to add...

(Northwestern University) A new COVID-19 global surveillance system has been developed which can dynamically track not just where the virus is now, but where it is going, how fast it will arrive and whether that speed is...

(Boston College) The new study "Human Health and Ocean Pollution" presents a broad and comprehensive examination of the multiple dangers to human and ecosystem health posed by pollution of the seas. Toxins in the ocean m...