Medical News
Hidden world just below the surface
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Hawaii at Manoa) A team of scientists from NOAA's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Arizona State University and elsewhere have discovered that a diverse array ...
Using Artificial Intelligence to prevent harm caused by immunotherapy
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Case Western Reserve University) Until recently, researchers and oncologists had placed these lung cancer patients into two broad categories: those who would benefit from immunotherapy, and those who likely would not. N...
Female breast cancer surpasses lung as the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(American Cancer Society) Cancer ranks as a leading cause of death in every country in the world, and, for the first time, female breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, overtaking lung cancer, according to ...
View the Feb. 9 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards ceremony
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 9., for the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards ceremony, to be held in conjunction with the virtual 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting.
Is Noom Really All That Different From Other Diets? Here's What the Experts Say
Discover - 4 Feb 2021 19:00
The popular dieting app Noom works at an intersection of weight-loss, psychology and tech, but some experts are wary of its effects.
CU offers plan for improving mental health care for resident physicians
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A pilot program to offer mental health services offered resident physicians at the University of Colorado School of Medicine provides a model for confidential and affordab...
Clients of female sex workers should be targeted for HIV prevention and treatment in South Africa
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Bristol) The researchers found that over a ten-year period (2010-19), sex between female sex workers and their paying clients contributed 6.9 per cent of new HIV infections, while sex between clients with ...
DNA-based technique allows researchers to determine age of living beluga whales in Alaska
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Oregon State University) Researchers can now determine the age and sex of living beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet thanks to a new DNA-based technique that uses information from small samples of skin tissue.
Dementia-related psychosis: GSA experts identify ways to improve care
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(The Gerontological Society of America) A new white paper from The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) highlights the variety of challenges that persons with dementia-related psychosis and their caregivers have encou...
Duration of antibody response varies among adults naturally reinfected with RSV
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that while most individuals responded to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) natural reinfection with a typical sustained antibody response assoc...
Emory MVA COVID-19 vaccine safe and effective in animal models
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Emory Health Sciences) Yerkes NPRC/Emory University researchers have developed a COVID-19 vaccine that has proven safe and effective in mice and monkeys. The Emory MVA COVID-19 vaccine uses modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA...
Experimental vaccine blunts the deadliest of synthetic opioids
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Scripps Research Institute) As the opioid epidemic raged on with an even greater force during COVID-19, the Scripps Research laboratory of chemist Kim Janda, PhD, has been working on new therapeutic interventions that m...
Food allergies are more common among Black children
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Black children have significantly higher rates of shellfish and fish allergies than White children, in addition to having higher odds of wheat allergy, suggesting th...
Imaging the first moments of a body plan emerging in the embryo
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Marine Biological Laboratory) Egg cells start out as round blobs. After fertilization, they begin transforming into people, dogs, fish, or other animals by orienting head to tail, back to belly, and left to right. Exact...
Mast cells: Sentinels and high-speed messengers of the immune defense
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) A team of scientists at the Institute for Molecular and Clinical Immunology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg unravels a crucial mechanism of cell-cell-communication...
New combination therapy offers chance of healing hepatitis B
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(German Center for Infection Research) Around 260 million people, more than three percent of the global population, are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV); in the long term, this often leads to complic...
New guidance on how cardiac patients with diabetes can exercise more safely
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Swansea University) Cardiac patients who also have diabetes will be able to do their rehabilitation exercises more safely, thanks to the world's first guidance on the subject, which has been published by international e...
New report explores effect of coffee through our daily sleep and wake cycles
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Kaizo) New report reviews latest research into coffee's effect on sleep. Suggests that while drinking coffee early in the day can help support alertness and concentration levels, especially when sleep patterns are distu...
New study examines addiction medicine treatment in Vietnam
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Oregon Health & Science University) A study published in The Lancet HIV marks one of the first scientifically robust assessments of a new model of treating HIV in lower or middle income countries where injection drug us...
Pharmacologist offers plan to solve disparities in designing medicine
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a new perspective piece published in the Feb. 5 issue of Science, Johns Hopkins pharmacologist Namandje Bumpus, Ph.D., outlines the molecular origins for differences in how well certain drugs ...
School gardens linked with kids eating more vegetables
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Texas at Austin) Getting children to eat their vegetables can seem like an insurmountable task, but nutrition researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found one way: school gardens and lessons...
Scientists establish multiple primate models of SARS-CoV-2 airborne infection
EurekAlert! - 4 Feb 2021 07:00
(US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) Army scientists evaluated three nonhuman primate species as potential models of SARS-CoV-2 airborne infection, according to results published online this week i...