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(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Medical College of Georgia investigators report a significant association between a faster decrease in resting heart rate from childhood to adulthood and a larger left v...

(University of California - Riverside) A UC Riverside virologist has won a $1.9 million award to investigate how Zika virus uses a protein, NS5, to beat the human immune system.

(University of Portsmouth) International scientists from around the world are warning that chemical pollutants in the environment have the potential to alter animal and human behaviour. A scientific forum of 30 experts f...

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Researchers from the HSE Center for Language and Brain have, for the first time, described the language abilities of Russian children with Autism Spectrum Disorde...

(Hokkaido University) On April 15, 2021, Hokkaido University and Shionogi & Co., Ltd. will start to monitor COVID-19 in Osaka Prefecture based on wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), with the cooperation of the Prefectur...

(Medical University of Vienna) In Austria, suicides have fallen by 4% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, thereby consolidating the pre-2019 trend. An international study now shows that this pattern i...

(Penn State) Supplementation of cocoa powder in the diet of high-fat-fed mice with liver disease markedly reduced the severity of their condition, according to a new study by Penn State researchers, who suggest the resul...

(The Endocrine Society) The Endocrine Society opposes legislative efforts that do not conform to medical evidence and clinical practice to prevent transgender and gender diverse adolescents from accessing gender-affirmin...

(International Osteoporosis Foundation) This new Calcified Tissue International special issue includes a comprehensive series of state-of-the-art reviews on key issues in chronic kidney disease and mineral & bone disorde...

(National Multiple Sclerosis Society) The 2021 John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research goes to Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, PhD, the Samuel Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, for outstandin...

(Colorado State University) The review presents evidence and a framework linking COVID-19 mitigation strategies, the built environment and transportation to health determinants and outcomes.

(Forschungszentrum Juelich) One consequence of the coronavirus pandemic has been global restrictions on mobility. This, in turn, has had an effect on pollution levels in the atmosphere. Researchers from across the world ...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Before humans can benefit from new drug therapies and nutritional additives, scientists test their safety and efficacy in animals, typ...

(University of Surrey) An innovative new technique that encourages cancer cells in the kidneys to self-destruct could revolutionise the treatment of the disease, a new study in the journal Pharmaceutics reports.

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) Despite all the advances in medicine, some basic questions remain. For example, people cannot be told with any certainty how long they'll live. Nor can it be predicted exactl...

(University of Texas at Dallas) New research by University of Texas at Dallas scientists could help solve a major challenge in the deployment of certain COVID-19 vaccines worldwide -- the need for the vaccines to be kept...

(Penn State) In a randomized controlled study, Penn State researchers found that a Mediterranean diet combined with small portions of lean beef helped lower risk factors for developing heart disease, such as LDL choleste...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) As older teens and young adults become eligible for COVID-19 vaccination across the country, and younger teens await their turn, new survey data suggest a strong readiness tha...

(Lancaster University) An outbreak of vomiting among dogs has been traced back to a type of animal coronavirus by researchers.Vets across the country began reporting cases of acute onset prolific vomiting in 2019/20.

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has established a network of research sites to study the natural history, transmission and pathogenesi...

(University of California - Irvine) A new study, led by the University of California, Irvine (UCI), reveals how chronic inflammation promotes muscle fibrosis, which could inform the development of new therapies for patie...

(The Hastings Center) New in the Hastings Center Report: Confronting Covid-19 "family clustering"; Covid-19 research on prisoners; new model of consent