Medical News
Elsevier donates original drawings of the Pernkopf Anatomy Atlas to the MedUni Vienna
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Medical University of Vienna) Elsevier, an information analytics company specializing in science and health, has donated original drawings and other materials of the famous Pernkopf Atlas of Anatomy from its holdings to...
School of Community Health Sciences publishes study on sugar-sweetened beverage taxes
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Nevada, Reno) A new research study out of the University of Nevada, Reno's School of Community Health Sciences has just been published by the American Journal of Public Health and addresses state preemptio...
Actively preparing or watching others prepare food can lead to eating more
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Surrey) Food preparation (both actively preparing food yourself as well as watching others) can lead to eating more, a new study in the journal Appetite reports. Researchers believe this could lead to weig...
Beta blockers can repair malformed blood vessels in the brain
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Uppsala University) Propranolol, a drug that is efficacious against infantile haemangiomas ("strawberry naevi", resembling birthmarks), can also be used to treat cerebral cavernous malformations, a condition characteris...
Breaking the infertility cycle: Sheep could show us the way
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Texas A&M AgriLife Communications) A Texas A&M AgriLife study with sheep may soon help address fertility problems in women, if it can discover ways to break the chain of generational transfer of polycystic ovary syndrom...
CDDEP report highlights tremendous burden from infectious diseases in SEAR countries
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy) Washington, DC / New Delhi, India - Researchers at CDDEP, in collaboration with leading experts in the field, have produced the "Infectious Diseases in the South-East Asi...
Climate-friendly foam building insulation may do more harm than good
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Green Science Policy Institute) The use of the polymeric flame retardant PolyFR in 'eco-friendly' foam plastic building insulation may be harmful to human health and the environment, according to a new commentary in Env...
College students displaced from campus due to COVID-19 show worse psychological outcomes
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) In a new study of 791 undergraduate and graduate students, surveyed between April 9 and August 4, 2020, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston University's School of Social W...
Distinguishing between two very similar pediatric brain conditions
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Slight differences in clinical features can help physicians distinguish between two rare but similar forms of autoimmune brain inflammation in children, a new study by UT Southwestern sci...
Fat cells may influence how the body reacts to heart failure, study shows
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) University of Alberta researchers have found that limiting the amount of fat the body releases into the bloodstream from fat cells when in heart failure could help ...
Global Virus Network names USF Health the GVN Southeast US Regional Headquarters
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of South Florida (USF Health)) The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition comprising the world's foremost experts in every class of virus causing disease in humans and some animals, today announced that USF ...
Innate immune system worsens the situation in severe COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Uppsala University) In patients with severe COVID-19, the innate immune system overreacts. This overreaction may underlie the formation of blood clots (thrombi) and deterioration in oxygen saturation that affect the pat...
JDRF announces new Center of Excellence in New England to advance type 1 diabetes research
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(JDRF) JDRF, the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research, announces, in collaboration with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, the launch of the JDRF Center of Excellence in New England.
Latest association for molecular pathology survey findings indicate significant decline in molecula
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Association for Molecular Pathology) The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, molecular diagnostic professional society, today released the preliminary results of its "Molecular Testing for Can...
MUSC researcher awarded $9.9 million for tuberculosis treatment and prevention
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Medical University of South Carolina) Susan Dorman, M.D., an infectious disease expert at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), was recently awarded a 10-year, $9.9 million contract by the Centers for Disease...
Managing suicide risk in research study participants
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Illinois at Chicago) Although suicide screening tools are widely available for patients in emergency, hospital and primary care settings and have been used in research, there is a "significant gap" in the ...
Markey's ACTION program develops cancer education curriculum for Appalachian schools
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Kentucky) After conducting a study to assess the need for cancer education materials in Appalachian Kentucky, members of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center's Appalachian Career Training in Onc...
Models to predict dengue, zika and yellow fever outbreaks are developed by researchers
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Scientists will monitor areas in which these diseases are endemic, such as São Paulo, the Amazon, the Pantanal and Panama, to investigate the factors that trigger ...
Monoclonal antibodies against MERS coronavirus show promise in phase 1 NIH-sponsored trial
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 1 clinical trial of two monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed against the coronavirus that causes MERS found that they we...
New blood pressure-lowering guidelines could benefit 25 million americans with chronic kidney disease
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A recommendation for more intensive blood pressure management from an influential global nonprofit that publishes clinical practice guidelines in kidney diseas...
New features of a gene defect that affects muzzle length and caudal vertebrae in dogs
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Helsinki) A recent genetic study at the University of Helsinki provides new information on the occurrence of a DVL2 gene defect associated with a screw tail and its relevance to canine constitution and hea...
New strategy blocks chronic lung disease in mice
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2021 07:00
(Washington University School of Medicine) A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has uncovered a previously unknown role for exosomes in inflammatory respiratory diseases. The study has i...