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(Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center) Incorporating Black churches and clergy in COVID-19 vaccination education and distribution has been found to be an effective model in helping to increase vaccinati...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Group affiliated with a FAPESP-supported research center showed that the parasite blocks the action of an enzyme using autophagy.

(University of Montreal) A Canadian molecular biologist at University of Montreal discovers a new function for BMI1, which is known to counteract brain aging.

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Researchers have discovered that a widely used nutritional supplement may significantly reduce the risk of fatal strokes caused by a rare genetic disorder. Additionally, the findings...

(Carnegie Mellon University) Daily national surveys by Carnegie Mellon University show that while COVID-19 vaccine uptake has increased, the proportion of vaccine-hesitant adults has remained unchanged. The concerns abou...

(University of Barcelona) Understanding the evolution of the polar sea ice is not enough to study the effects of the climate change on marine ecosystems in Antarctic seafloors. It is also necessary to determine the inten...

(Rice University) Fish that dine on corals may pay it forward with poop. Rice University marine biologists found high concentrations of living symbiotic algae in the feces of coral predators on reefs in Mo'orea, French P...

(Clemson University) While COVID-19 cases may be on the decline, the virus is still prevalent nationwide, and higher education institutions need to prepare for a successful 2021 academic year. New research from Clemson U...

(University of California - Los Angeles) By targeting an enzyme that plays a key role in head and neck cancer cells, UCLA researchers were able to significantly slow the growth and spread of tumors in mice and enhance th...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) It's not just your legs and heart that get a workout when you walk briskly; exercise affects your brain as well. A new study by researchers at UT Southwestern shows that when older adults...

(Elsevier) During the COVID-19 pandemic, Joseph S. Alpert, MD, Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Medicine, published by Elsevier, has observed that although non-COVID inpatients suffered from the usual mix of co...

(University of Georgia) Medical school applications have climbed steadily over time, but the number of applications coming from rural or remote areas has dropped.

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) People who received a flu shot last flu season were significantly less likely to test positive for a COVID-19 infection when the pandemic hit, according to a new study. And th...

(Henry Ford Health System) Odontogenic sinusitis is unique from what most people consider sinusitis, and is frequently missed by various types of medical and dental clinicians. It can occur from dental disease or dental ...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Psychiatric researchers have identified interactions between genes and sex that might partly explain how major psychiatric disorders affect males and females differently. The findings, fr...

(Virginia Commonwealth University) Most people relate cholesterol to heart health, but it is also a critical component in the growth and spread of brain cancer. VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Suyun Huang, Ph.D., rec...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) As the pandemic's economic effects drive more people to enroll in Medicaid as safety-net health insurance, a new study suggests that the program's dental coverage can improve ...

(University of Rochester Medical Center) New research involving neuroimaging and A.I., describes the complex network within the brain that comprehends the meaning of a spoken sentence.

(National University of Ireland Galway) An international study involving almost 3,000 patients who were treated in intensive care units in 29 countries has shown that 40% of those who undergo tracheal intubation to suppo...

(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering to investigate the interactions between telaprevir, a drug used to treat hepatitis C viral infection, and the S...

(eLife ) A new technique that can trace which tissues and organs the DNA in our blood comes from has been reported today in the open-access eLife journal.

(NSF International) Researchers at NSF International, Harvard Medical School and several other research institutions are urging consumers to avoid weight loss and sports supplements that list deterenol as an ingredient a...