Medical News
ATRT molecular groups: looking at the biology from the clinic
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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.
Is the Kinsey Scale of Sexual Behavior Still Valid?
Discover - 18 Mar 2021 22:30
The decades-old classification system for the study of sex may still have value, but new frameworks offer more.
Gastric Bypass: We're Still Understanding the Benefits of Weight-Loss Surgery
Discover - 18 Mar 2021 15:00
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.
Babies pay attention with down payment from immature brain region
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
A new study by Novateur Ventures provides global analysis of COVID-19 vaccines
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
2021 INS Standards highlight anti-reflux technology for needleless connectors
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
Common, serious gut disorder is under- and often misdiagnosed
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
Animal model opens way to test Alzheimer's disease therapies
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
Anti-inflammatory therapies have potential to prevent heart disease in the elderly
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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.
CAS developed anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug candidate enters clinical trial in the US
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
COVID-19 denial depends on a population's trust in social institutions
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
COVID-19 lockdowns and demographically-relevant Google Trends
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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.
Chemical cocktail creates new avenues for generating muscle stem cells
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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 announces 2021 award recipients
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
Contrast-enhanced mammography for breast cancer in women with augmented breasts
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
Could leak in blood-brain barrier be cause of poor memory?
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
Disparities in contraception use between women with and without diabetes persist
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
Estimating the timing of the earliest SARS-CoV-2 case in Hubei Province, China
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
HIV: An antidiabetic drug to reduce chronic inflammation
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
'Vulnerable' countries experience lower COVID-19 infection and death rates than the norm
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
How gamblers plan their actions to maximize rewards
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...
How well does vaccination work in residents of long-term care homes?
EurekAlert! - 18 Mar 2021 06:00
(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...