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(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are learning more about what the molecular groups of a rare pediatric brain tumor mean for clinical care.

The decades-old classification system for the study of sex may still have value, but new frameworks offer more.

Beyond helping people lose weight and keep it off, bariatric surgery could also resolve type 2 diabetes (but we aren't totally sure why). The explanation may lie in our gut microbiome.

(Yale University) Using an approach pioneered at Yale that uses fMRI (or functional magnetic resonance imaging) to scan the brains of awake babies, a team of university psychologists show that when focusing their attenti...

(PR Associates) A new study by Novateur Ventures provides a comparative analysis of twelve COVID-19 Vaccines that had initiated or announced the Phase III clinical trial stage by early November 2020. The study highlights...

(Dowling & Dennis PR) The Infusion Nurses Society has expanded its guidance on the use of needleless connectors to include anti-reflux technology in its recently published 2021 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, acc...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Rumination syndrome is little known, but relatively common. It involves effortless, repeated regurgitation. This uncomfortable and embarrassing syndrome can be confused with other upper g...

(University of California - Davis) Our knowledge of Alzheimer's disease has grown rapidly in the past few decades but it has proven difficult to translate fundamental discoveries about the disease into new treatments. No...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Therapies that soothe inflammation could be effective at preventing heart disease in older people with a common blood condition, a new study from Columbia researchers suggests.

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) DC402234 (FB2001), an anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug candidate mainly developed by research team at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM) of Chinese Academy of Sciences enters i...

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) An international team of scholars studied how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Europeans' stress levels and their trust in their national governments and the he...

(PLOS) Google Trends reveal how searches related to family and relationship behaviors, such as weddings, contraception, and abortions, changed during lockdowns in the US and Europe.

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A UCLA-led research team has identified a chemical cocktail that enables the production of large numbers of muscle stem cells, which can self-renew and give rise t...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) Four members of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine have been selected as 2021 AASM awards recipients for their contributions to the field of sleep medicine. This year's award winn...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) showed concordance with MRI in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer and breast augmentat...

(University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine) One of the keys to having a healthy brain at any age is having a healthy blood-brain barrier, a complex interface of blood vessels that run through the brain. Res...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Uncontrolled diabetes increases maternal and fetal risks during pregnancy. As a result, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommends that family planning should be discussed a...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Researchers who simulated early stages of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Wuhan, China, conclude that the virus was likely circulating earlier than has been described, pos...

(University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) ) Metformin, a drug used to treat type-2 diabetes, could help reduce chronic inflammation in people living with HIV (PLWH) who are being treated with antiretrovir...

(KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.) With FSI measures by the Fund of Peace, overall, more fragile countries are less likely to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and even if affected, death rates were lower. However, poor...

(University of Cologne) A study in biological psychology has shown that habitual gamblers use strategies during reinforcement learning that differ from those of the control group. This difference could be caused by chang...

(McMaster University) The study, which is in partnership with Schlegel Villages, St. Joseph's Health System, and Health Sciences North Research Institute, will involve more than 2,000 residents, staff, and visitors of lo...