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(American Heart Association) Analysis of data from the American Heart Association's COVID-19 CVD Registry of more than 20,000 U.S. adults hospitalized with COVID-19 through November 2020 found that, overall, COVID-19 pat...

(McMaster University) New research from McMaster University has found that roughly three in every five Canadian adults aged 45 to 85 have been exposed to childhood abuse, neglect, intimate partner violence or other house...

(University of Eastern Finland) Binge drinking in adolescence is associated with changes in the volume of the cerebellum in young adulthood, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospit...

(Washington University School of Medicine) Wearing masks, social distancing and frequent hand-washing have kept in-school COVID-19 transmission low, according to results of a pilot study in Missouri aimed at identifying ...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) The new approach blocks the interaction between cancer cells and immune receptors, showing promise in mice.

(City of Hope) City of Hope and its nursing team have achieved the prestigious Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. It is the comprehensive cancer center's first Magnet recognition -- one o...

(Aalto University) A combined brain-scanning and behaviour study in Finland has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left h...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) Early benefit assessment - the whole rangeIQWiG assessed a total of 23 manufacturer dossiers on time for the deadlines of 1 March and 15 March. As examples, the indic...

(Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology) VHIO-born spin-off Peptomyc S.L. initiates the first-in-human Phase I/II clinical trial with its first compound - a disruptive Myc inhibitor, Omomyc (OMO-103).

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A single injection of a gene therapy involving what are called zinc fingers dramatically reduced levels of tau, a protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease, in mice with the condition. Th...

(Ohio State University) Recent generations show a worrying decline in health compared to their parents and grandparents when they were the same age, a new national study reveals.Researchers found that, compared to previo...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Three University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers are part of a team that recently published a paper offering new insight into how the immune system relates to cancer...

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have shown that ubiquitous microplastics can become 'hubs' for antibiotic-resistant bacteria and pathogens to grow once they wash dow...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) New research indicates that the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated existing racial health care disparities and suggests that during the pandemic, African Americans ma...

(Cranfield University) At the start of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, new research from Cranfield University demonstrates the importance of organisations becoming more inclusive employers when it comes to neurodiversit...

(Mayo Clinic) Low representation of minority groups in public genomic databases may affect therapy selection for Black patients with cancer, according to new Mayo Clinic research published in npj Precision Oncology.

(Center of Diagnostics and Telemedicine) Moscow Center for Diagnostics & Telemedicine shared the results of a large-scale study (Moscow Experiment on the Computer Vision for the Analysis of Medical Images - mosmed.ai, NC...

(Penn State) Stress is a universal human experience that almost everyone deals with from time to time. But a new study found that not only do some people report feeling no stress at all, but that there may be downsides t...

(Pennington Biomedical Research Center) Colorectal cancer survivors who maintained a stable body weight but lost muscle and developed fatty deposits in their muscles faced a 40 percent higher risk of premature death than...

(American Heart Association) Mechanical removal of blood clots for stroke (endovascular treatment) has become more prevalent, however, racial differences in receiving the treatment persist.Black patients receive endovasc...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A study to identify prenatal and early childhood markers of high risk for food allergy and atopic dermatitis, or eczema, as well as biological pathways that lea...

(Penn State) A new antibiotic compound clears infection of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in mice in a single oral dose, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State and Emory University. The compound target...