Medical News

Truthfully, not much -- but it's still a valuable piece of information for future COVID-19 research to have.

(Queen Mary University of London) Think Brain Health - a policy, clinical and research challenge, a virtual meeting featuring expert speakers in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, addressed current and future oppor...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A new series of computational fluid dynamics simulations suggests that, for two people who must travel together in the same passenger car, the safest way to prevent p...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) In a new paper in the journal Nature, BIDMC researchers shed light on the role of antibodies and immune cells in protection against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in rh...

(University of Virginia Health System) A new discovery reveals how something amazing happens when a baby takes a first breath. The finding could shed light on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, the world's first comprehensive center aimed at advancing research, treatment, a...

(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig) A high biodiversity in our vicinity is as important for life satisfaction as our income, scientists from Senckenberg, the German Centre for ...

(Murdoch Childrens Research Institute) COVID-19 cases in schools, early childhood education centers and childcare are mainly driven by community transmission. Off-site learning should therefore be a last resort, a new Au...

(Boston Medical Center) New research from Boston Medical Center finds that the COVID-19 emergency systemic changes made to decrease in-person visits during the pandemic have led to a decrease in hospital-wide Hepatitis C...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) A new clinical trial offers the most compelling evidence to date that a donor stem cell transplant can improve survival rates for older patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (M...

(Karolinska Institutet) A new study from Karolinska Institutet and the Helmholtz Diabetes Research Center shows that primary cilia, hair-like protrusions on endothelial cells inside vessels, play an important role in the...

(Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center) Los Robles Health System is leading the way in neurovascular clinical trials. Interventional neurologist, Dr. Asif Taqi, is the principal investigator of the STEM Study, a landmark ...

(University of California - Davis Health) A new study by the UC Davis MIND Institute finds a connection between gestational age and ADHD in children with Down syndrome. An earlier gestational age is linked to higher ADHD...

(University of Seville) This study identifies the values for six biochemical biomarkers that indicate a patient may be infected with SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19). The key novelty of this study lies in the fact that it was carri...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) A study by researchers at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, believed to be the first study to investigate the role of neighborhood deprivation on COVID-19...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) An analysis of lung tissues from patients with different types of pulmonary fibrosis - including cases triggered by COVID-19 - has revealed a promising molecular targ...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Unless we take urgent action to tackle climate change, we can expect an ever-hotter world that threatens global health, disrupts lives and livelihoods and overwhelm...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Gene therapy is the most effective method to be able to provide health benefits you normally gain through physical exercise. This means of "training" could be helpful for ...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) A study led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has made a surprising connection between frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral...

(Gladstone Institutes) In a new study published in the scientific journal Cell, the team from Gladstone Institutes, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco has outlined the technology for a CRISPR-based test for COVID-19 that ...

(Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) A study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics by researchers with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine -- a nonprofit of 12,000 do...

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) While multiple research studies show that Black and Hispanic patients are more likely to test positive for COVID-19, a team of investigators at NYU Langone Health has found t...