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When the human body is deprived of water, things go downhill quickly.

(City University London) Professor Rosalind Gill, from City, University of London's Gender and Sexualities Research Centre, has today published a new report to mark International Women's Day. The report - Changing the Pe...

(Halsin Partners) Data published in Circulation showed that Allelica's proprietary polygenic risk score analysis combined with LDL level helps determine those people at most risk from heart attack, including those potent...

(University of Minnesota) A global observation of an ongoing atmospheric drying -- known by scientists as a rise in vapor pressure deficit -- has been observed worldwide since the early 2000s. In recent years, this conce...

(Medical University of Vienna) The precise choice of treatment for breast cancer depends upon the status of the hormone receptors (for oestrogen and progesterone). Now it is possible to use decision theory to optimally c...

(University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed at the University of Copenhagen has just been approved for phase 1 testing on humans. The research results ar...

(University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) ) A team of researchers from the CHUM Research Centre has identified new biomarkers associated with the severity of COVID-19 in infected patients.

(American Heart Association) The U.S. opioid epidemic and related opioid use disorder are significant causes of cardiac arrest and death among adults ages 25 to 64.Opioid-related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest differs fr...

(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) UNC-Chapel Hill Adams School of Dentistry clinical trial will answer critical questions about potential of mouthwash to slow COVID-19 spread.

(University of Cambridge) Diphtheria - a relatively easily-preventable infection - is evolving to become resistant to a number of classes of antibiotics and in future could lead to vaccine escape, warn an international t...

(Taylor & Francis Group) An independent analysis of the medical trials which formed the final basis of approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) strongly suggests the drug bremelanotide has very limited effec...

(Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute) Financial pollution arises when exorbitant or unnecessary healthcare spending depletes resources needed for the wellbeing of the population. This is the subject of a JAMA Health Fo...

(University of Eastern Finland) Rokote Laboratories Finland Ltd., a newly-founded academic spin-out based in Finland is working to develop and introduce to the markets a nasal spray vaccine against COVID. The vaccine is ...

(Wiley) For the drug approval process in the United States, investigators have been expanding clinical trials to sites outside the country. However, a new study indicates that this trend may be widening racial disparitie...

(University of Massachusetts Amherst) Inflammation in the body has been linked to the intensity of tobacco smoking among people with HIV, according to a team of University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers.

(City University London) Researchers from City, University London, supported by Allergan Pharmaceuticals and Glaucoma UK, have today released the latest edition of an app to help people newly diagnosed with glaucoma.The ...

(Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology) Immune cells accessing cerebrospinal fluid faithfully recapitulate the characteristics of cells identified in brain metastasis, and could therefore constitute novel biomarkers of res...

(Hiroshima University) An international team of researchers has found that A. virginicus extracts appear to be effective against several human diseases, including diabetes and cancer. The results were published on Dec. 3...

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) Youth involved in the child welfare system experience a greater risk of suicidal behavior, yet research on this vulnerable population is minimal. To better understand and prevent suicide ...

(Vilcek Foundation) The Vilcek Foundation recognizes the research contributions and work of Princeton University faculty member Mohamed Abou Donia in a new article and video. Abou Donia is the recipient of a 2021 Vilcek ...

(Regenstrief Institute) In a study led by Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University and the State of Indiana, conducted shortly before COVID-19 vaccines became available in the US, more than two-thirds of nursing home an...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Physicians understand frailty as a dysregulation among multiple systems in the body that make it less resilient and unable to recover completely when faced with a physical challenge such as injur...