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(Loyola University Health System) - A recent Loyola Medicine study found that reducing the standard dose of IV-administered ketamine in half is as effective as the larger, standard dose in reducing pain in adults.

(Bar-Ilan University) Aspirin use to avoid the development of cardiovascular diseases in healthy individuals was associated with a 29% lower likelihood of COVID-19 infection, as compared to aspirin non-users. The proport...

(University of Helsinki) Brans and other cereal side streams, which currently are mainly used as feed or in energy production, could be utilised as raw materials for protein-rich and highly functional raw materials for f...

(American Chemical Society) There's a surprising amount of information stored in the hardened plaque, or calculus, between teeth. And if that calculus belongs to the remains of a person who lived in ancient times, the in...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Three projects from University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers have received grants from the Denver-based Michele Plachy-Rubin Fund for Pilot Grants in Brain Cancer ...

(University of East Anglia) Parents of children with food allergies face significant worry, severe anxiety and post-traumatic stress - according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

(University of Washington) A new University of Washington study finds that an identification with all humanity, as opposed to identification with a geographic area like a country or town, predicts whether someone will en...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) When the operating room is busy, 20 per cent more hip replacement patients died within 60 days after the operation, a study of Norwegian patients shows.

(University of Basel) Immune cells specialize to ensure the most efficient defense against viruses and other pathogens. Researchers at the University of Basel have shed light on this specialization of T cells and shown t...

(Murdoch Childrens Research Institute) Blood pressure measurements in children and adolescents should be taken from both arms after new research showed substantial differences could be seen depending on which arm was use...

(University of California - Davis) Memory involves both recall of specific details (who, where, when) and feelings of remembering and reliving past events. New research from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain shows t...

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) While neurological complications of COVID-19 in children are rare, in contrast to adults, an international expert review of positive neuroimaging findings in childre...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Healthcare personnel who were infected with COVID-19 had stronger risk factors outside the workplace than in their hospital or healthcare setting.

(Boston Medical Center) A new study shows that providing a non-acute care space after hospital discharge for patients with COVID-19 who are experiencing homelessness helped reduce hospitalizations and keep inpatient beds...

(University of Minnesota) U of M School of Nursing Professor Eunice Areba found that prevention programs in schools can reduce suicide ideation and attempts among Somali, Latino, Hmong and Non-Hispanic white adolescents.

(University of North Texas Health Science Center) Researchers want to better identify individuals with Down syndrome who are at risk of the disease and whether this disease can be prevented with medicine.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern scientists have identified key genes involved in brain waves that are pivotal for encoding memories. The findings, published online this week in Nature Neuroscience, could...

(University of Science and Technology of China) Prof. ZHU Shu were invited to publish a review article in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, summarizing the gastrointestinal manifestations in patients with C...

(Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) The winners will be recognized at the annual Kravis WiSE Symposium which is held every year during Women's History Month. This Symposium hosts scientific leaders from MSK and othe...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Story Tips from Johns Hopkins Experts on Covid-19

(NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) The mosquito protein AEG12 strongly inhibits the family of viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, West Nile, and Zika and weakly inhibits coronaviruses, accordi...

(AlphaMed Press) Longitudinal imaging study provides evidence in patients that autologous bone marrow cells may lead to a reduction in white matter injury compared with stroke patients who did not receive bone marrow cel...