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With an increase in the amount of time spent at home due to COVID-19, testing for radon is the only way to know if you and your family are at risk of exposure.

(Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University) SARS-CoV-2 impacts people in different ways after infection. Some experience only mild or no symptoms at all while others become sick enough to req...

(American College of Cardiology) The American College of Cardiology has received a grant from Bristol Myers Squibb to address gaps in care and knowledge around hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, one of the most common cardiova...

(Washington University School of Medicine) Antibody-based drugs have been authorized for emergency use in COVID-19 patients by the Food and Drug Administration. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in ...

(Swansea University) People with asthma in the most deprived areas are 50% more likely to be admitted to hospital and to die from asthma compared with those in the least deprived areas, a new five-year study of over 100,...

(University of Queensland) A subtype of asthma in adults may cause higher susceptibility to influenza and could result in dangerous flu mutations. University of Queensland-led animal studies have found that paucigranuloc...

(Rutgers University) Human health and ecosystems could be affected by microbes including cyanobacteria and algae that hitch rides in clouds and enter soil, lakes, oceans and other environments when it rains, according to...

(West Virginia University) With the aid of $1.4 million-grant from the DOD's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, researchers, led by Mariette Barbier of the WVU School of Medicine, will aim to develop small molecule and ant...

(Gladstone Institutes) Gladstone researchers have shown in mice that CNS B-cell lymphoma cells cluster at sites where there is a leak in the blood-brain barrier. They also found that a blood protein called fibrinogen, wh...

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) The study also showed that the number of COVID-19 infections in pregnant patients from nearly all communities of color in Washington was high. There was a twofold to...

(Inselspital, Bern University Hospital ) Cancer research in Bern has discovered a further mechanism to combat leukemia: a research team at Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and the University of Bern has succeeded in...

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Cataracts are the most common eye ailment in humans. However, the exact processes leading to this condition are not fully understood. A team of researchers headed by the Technical U...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Gliomas are common brain tumors that comprise about one third of all cancers of the nervous system. In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NI...

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has been awarded a 2021 Dan David Prize. The internationally renowned prize, hea...

(Bentham Science Publishers) This book will guide the reader to discover new natural products from Asia and Africa and the different ways to use them to treat or alleviate many of the most common diseases.

(University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center) Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD, FACC, has been awarded the 2021 Distinguished Scientist Award - Translational Domain by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) for his contributio...

(Cactus Communications) DNA repair pathways exist to correct molecular damage caused by internal and external factors. However, any damage to these pathways can result in the creation of tumors and specific types of canc...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) In a study led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers, scientists found that five genes may play a critical role in determining whether a person w...

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) The pandemic has seen a significant, alarming trend of increased alcohol use and abuse - especially among younger adults, males and those who lost jobs - the University of Arizona ...

(Linköping University) The questions in a health survey aimed at young people raise issues of status and convey norms about what people should own and how they should be. This is according to a study from Linköping Uni...

(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) The Heart Valve Collaboratory (HVC) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) will participate in this "coll...

(University of Gothenburg) Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden presents evidence that hospital wastewater, containing elevated levels of antibiotics, rapidly kills antibiotic-sensitive bacteria, while mu...