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(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A new study involving UCLA researchers finds that mobile stroke units (MSUs) - state-of-the-art ambulances built to provide stroke patients with emergency neurolog...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Research shows how cadmium and carbon black can trigger lung macrophages to produce a modified protein, citrullinated vimentin, which leads to lung fibrosis. Researchers also describ...

(University of Helsinki) The onset of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in adult dogs was affected by the dam's bowel disease, the solid food the puppy received alongside suckling and the puppy's diet from two to six mont...

(Boston Children's Hospital) The fast-spreading UK, South Africa, and Brazil coronavirus variants are raising both concerns and questions about whether COVID-19 vaccines will protect against them. New work led by Bing Ch...

(American College of Cardiology) The American College of Cardiology (ACC), in collaboration with Novo Nordisk A/S, today announced a new global program to support improvements in multidisciplinary care for people with Ty...

(Carnegie Institution for Science) Algae colonizing dead coral are upending scientists' ability to accurately assess the health of a coral reef community, according to new work from a team of marine science experts led b...

(University of Zurich) Streetlights alter the number of flower visits by insects not just at night, but also during the daytime. Artificial light at night thus indirectly affects the entire plant-pollinator community, wi...

(George Washington University) George Washington University researchers found low dose aspirin may reduce the need for mechanical ventilation, ICU admission and in-hospital mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Fi...

(Ohio State University) A new study has found that about that 35% of Americans with a cancer history had an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease in the next decade, compared with about 23% of those who didn't have can...

(ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group) The DREAM3R phase 3 clinical trial is now enrolling patients with newly diagnosed unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) throughout the US, Australia, and New Zealand. DREAM3...

(The Endocrine Society) The Endocrine Society has selected five recipients for its Early Investigators Awards.

(Wolters Kluwer Health) In recent years, hospital charges and Medicare payments for patients with hip fractures have increased much more rapidly than charges and payments for orthopaedic surgeons, reports a study in the ...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The promotion of psychosocial health among individuals, groups, and society is an increasingly important subject in the field of public health. Psychosocial health is a complex interaction be...

(German Center for Infection Research) The discovery of a previously unknown hepatitis B virus in donkeys and zebras opens up new opportunities for understanding the course of the disease. A global research consortium wa...

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) CLEVELAND, Ohio (March 17, 2021)--As women age, they are more likely to wake up in the middle of the night to pass urine. The loss of estrogen during the menopause transition...

(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)) The Donation and Transplantation Institute and the UOC spin-off Immersium Studio have developed immersive activities for healthcare professionals to provide training prior to deali...

(Michigan State University) Agricultural researchers are finding effective ways to fight Brucellosis, an agricultural and human health concern on a global scale.

(Springer) Through new research published in EPJ E, researchers have produced a model which accurately accounts for the combined influences of chemotaxis and chemokinesis in bacteria swimming towards nutrients. The team'...

(Lund University) Researchers at Lund University have designed a new bioink which allows small human-sized airways to be 3D-bioprinted with the help of patient cells for the first time. The 3D-printed constructs are bioc...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) Stroke remains a leading cause of death worldwide and one of the most common reasons for disability. While a wide variety of factors influence stroke outcomes, data show tha...

(Impact Journals LLC) In this Oncotarget study, the authors characterized the mutational and neoantigen burden between primary and first recurrence tumors in 23 patients with HNSCC.