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Contrary to popular belief, Julius Caesar was not the first baby to be born via caesarean.

(JAMA Network) This JAMA Insights review from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Response team members presents data on the number of long-term care facilities and the numbers of residents and staff of t...

(University of Georgia) More U.S. adults reported receiving or planning to receive an influenza vaccination during the 2020-2021 flu season than ever before, according to findings from a national survey.

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) In a major advance in the treatment of multiple myeloma, a CAR T-cell therapy has generated deep, sustained remissions in patients who had relapsed from several previous therapies, an inter...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) An open-access article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) describes the clinical and imaging features of axillary adenopathy detected during screening or diagnostic breast im...

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) Philanthropic support from several donors totaling over $10 million will allow NYU Langone Health to advance its already world-renowned reputation in the field of psychedelic...

(JAMA Network) National COVID-19 registry data are used in this study to describe the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, complications, and hospital and postdischarge outcomes of pediatric patients with multisystem ...

(Flinders University) Australian researchers have called for additional services for survivors of intimate partner violence - warning those who have these experiences are more vulnerable to elder abuse. Women who survive...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The tenth volume of the series Frontiers in Drug Design and Discovery brings together reviews covering topics related to the treatment of neoplasms, systems biology, respiratory diseases amon...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Extreme weather driven by climate change is making power outages more commonplace even as the need for electricity-dependent home health equipment grows. In this co...

(University of Helsinki) Exploring exposure to superbacteria, researchers at the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital got unexpected results from an international collaborative study conducted in real ...

(Stanford University School of Engineering) "CRISPR can precisely locate specific genes," says Lacramioara Bintu, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford. "What we did was attach CRISPR to nanobodies to help...

(Bar-Ilan University) Researchers devised a strategy based on alternating lockdowns. Together with isolation of the symptomatic spreaders and the adoption of everyday prophylactic behaviors, this strategy can help defeat...

(University of Würzburg) In the process of developing language, the melody patterns that emerge in infants' vocalisations are a very important first step. A new study has shown that the complexity of these patterns rapi...

(George Washington University) The George Washington University is a site for a phase 2 clinical trial for Sanofi's adjuvanted recombinant protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

(American Marketing Association) Emphasizing aesthetic flaws via 'ugly' labeling can increase the purchase of unattractive produce.

(University of California - San Diego) UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers are using stem cell-derived organoids to study how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with various organ systems. Their findings may help explain the w...

(Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary) In the largest genome-wide association study of glaucoma comparing the genes of 34,179 people with the disease to 349,321 control subjects, an international consortium of researchers...

(JDRF) JDRF International, the Lupus Research Alliance and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society joined forces to accelerate research and discovery in autoimmunity and are proud to announce the recipients of their firs...

(American Association for Cancer Research) A machine learning-based tool was able to predict the risk of malignancy among patients presenting with multiple pulmonary nodules and outperformed human experts, previously val...

(University of Eastern Finland) According to a new study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics, more than one third of genetic variants that increase the risk of coronary artery disease regulate the express...

(Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) Nearly half of women with uncomplicated urinary tract infections received the wrong antibiotics and almost three-quarters received prescriptions for longer than necessary,...