Medical News

(University of Rhode Island) Researchers at the University of Rhode Island have developed a new saliva-based COVID-19 test. Researchers say the non-PCR based test is sensitive, specific, and can deliver results at a lowe...

Emerging breath research explains why a respiratory rate of six breaths per minute can calm your mind and improve physical health.

(Tokyo Medical and Dental University) Using cell culture and mouse model approaches, researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have found a novel drug combination that can inhibit tumor growth in oral a...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), a nonprofit foundation devoted to finding cures for all children with cancer, announces grant award recipients of their Crazy 8 Initiative....

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Researcher-physicians from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) used anonymized cell-phone data to build a Business Risk Index, which quantifies the potential risk of COVID-...

(Elsevier) A significant proportion of hospitalized patients with influenza develop complications of acute respiratory distress syndrome. Reporting in The American Journal of Pathology investigators have found that treat...

(Northwestern University) A new pilot study has shown when a female athlete has a concussion injury during the phase of her menstrual cycle when progesterone is highest, she feels less stress. Feeling stressed is one sym...

(Swansea University) Shielding vulnerable people has been central to the response to COVID-19, but how well does it work? A Swansea University research project has received funding to examine the evidence, to see what le...

(University of Houston) A new University of Houston report offers interventions for graduate schools to become more inclusive of transgender and nonbinary students, who can suffer from a toxic environment in an atmospher...

(eLife ) The bacterial equivalent of a traffic jam causes multilayered biofilms to form in the presence of antibiotics, shows a study published today in eLife.

(Ohio State University) Researchers found two simultaneous conditions during pregnancy in response to stress that made them realize just how complex the cross-talk between mom and baby is during gestation: Immune cells i...

(McGill University) A new study from McGill, published recently in Developmental Cell, has made a significant advance in the field of epigenetics by identifying how environmental information is transmitted by non-DNA mol...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A new UCLA study shows that while men and women who have high muscle mass are less likely to die from heart disease, it also appears that women who have higher lev...

(Queen Mary University of London) A study by Queen Mary University of London researchers, funded by Cancer Research UK, confirms the role of the oestrogen receptor biomarker in ductal carcinoma in situ and presents a new...

(Cleveland Clinic) Researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Florida Research and Innovation Center (FRIC) have identified a potential new target for anti-COVID-19 therapies. Their findings were published in Nature Microbiolog...

(University of Surrey) Researchers at the University of Surrey have found that non-invasive skin swab samples may be enough to detect COVID-19.

(Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) PCORI Board approves $48.5 million to fund new comparative clinical effectiveness research on second-line medications for Type 2 diabetes and several rare diseases. The Boar...

(Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth) The first known study to explore optimal outpatient exam scheduling given the flexibility of inpatient exams has resulted in shorter wait times for magnetic resonance imaging (...

(Deep Longevity Ltd) In the comment titled "Longevity medicine: upskilling the physicians of tomorrow" (Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2021) Evelyne Bischof, MD, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, MD, PhD, Richard Siow, PhD, Alexey Mos...

(University of Leicester) SLOW walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19, and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus, according to a team of researchers from the Nation...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Thanks to a new grant from the Prevent Cancer Foundation, University of Colorado Cancer Center member Neil Box -- an associate professor of dermatology in the CU School of...

(The Endocrine Society) Low doses of propylparaben--an estrogen-like chemical used as a preservative in personal care products and foods--can alter pregnancy-related changes in the breast in ways that may reduce the norm...