Medical News
A new treatment that might keep COVID-19 patients off the ventilator
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(Ohio State University) A new treatment is among the first known to reduce the severity of acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by the flu in animals, according to a new study.
ASPS unveils COVID-19's impact and pent-up patient demand fueling post-pandemic boom
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(American Society of Plastic Surgeons) The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) - the world's largest plastic surgery organization, representing nearly 8,000 members - today released the 2020 results of the organi...
An atlas of HIV's favorite targets in the blood of infected individuals
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(Gladstone Institutes) Researchers at Gladstone Institutes established a detailed atlas of the CD4+ T cells in individuals with HIV not on antiretroviral treatment, using a technology called CyTOF/PP-SLIDE, which they ha...
Anesthesia doesn't simply turn off the brain, it changes its rhythms
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(Picower Institute at MIT) Simultaneous measurement of neural rhythms and spikes across five brain areas in animals reveals how propofol induces unconsciousness. Slow rhythm signature can guide anesthesiologists to impro...
Antiviral response: Eosinophils active in immediate defense during influenza a infection
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(Le Bonheur Children's Hospital) For the first time in published literature, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) researchers showed that a variety of white blood cells...
CRISPR discovery from Wuerzburg paves the way for novel COVID testing method
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(University of Würzburg) Am I infected with SARS-CoV-2? Is it one of the dangerous variants? Being able to answer these questions with a single diagnostic test can be decisive for gauging the spread of disease and selec...
Department of Defense grants gelp CU Cancer Center researchers investigate metastasis
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Two members of the University of Colorado Cancer Center have received prestigious Idea Awards from the US Department of Defense's Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PR...
Dietary amino acid determines the fate of cancer cells
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(RIKEN) Researchers at RIKEN, Japan have discovered molecular events that determine whether cancer cells live or die. With this knowledge, they found that reduced consumption of a specific protein building block prevents...
Discerning molecular interactions may be target of precision medicine for severe COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(Bar-Ilan University) lncRNAs are potential regulators of anti-viral response during severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. Researchers constructed a gene co-expression network that measures the relationship of gene expression pat...
Don't go fracking my heart
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(University of Rochester Medical Center) New research compares the health impacts of fracking on either side of the New York and Pennsylvania border and found that people who live in areas with a high concentration of we...
Droperidol most effective sedation medication for agitation with less sides effects
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) In a randomized, double-blind trial of patients with acute undifferentiated agitation in the emergency department, droperidol was more effective for sedation and was associated w...
Exposure to high heat neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 in less than one second
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(Texas A&M University) Arum Han, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, and his collaborators have designed an experimental system that shows exposure of SARS-CoV-2 to...
Featured speakers announced for NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(American Society for Nutrition) How has the field of nutrition changed how we eat and live? What new discoveries and advances may be just over the horizon? Get the latest insights from leading nutrition scientists and p...
Hepatitis C drugs boost Remdesivir's antiviral activity against COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(University of Texas at Austin) Drugs used to treat hepatitis C render remdesivir 10 times better at inhibiting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in cell cultures, according to a new study in Cell Reports.
Hepatitis C drugs combined with Remdesivir show strong effectiveness against covid-19
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) A combination of remdesivir, a drug currently approved in the United States for treating COVID-19 patients, and repurposed drugs for hepatitis C virus (HCV) was...
Horizontal transmission can cause severe and persistent eye inflammation
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(Tokyo Medical and Dental University) Clinicians from TMDU discovered a novel mode of transmission for human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1). A patient with sudden blurred vision was diagnosed with HTLV-1 uveit...
Household aerosols now release more harmful smog chemicals than all UK vehicles
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(University of York) Aerosol products used in the home now emit more harmful volatile organic compound (VOC) air pollution than all the vehicles in the UK, new research shows. A new study by the University of York and th...
Lack of educational opportunities influence drug use for rural youth
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(University of Missouri-Columbia) Having grown up poor in a rural village in Zimbabwe, Wilson Majee saw firsthand as a child the lack of educational opportunities that were easily accessible and how that impacted the you...
Largest clinical trial in Africa for people with mild COVID-19 to test new treatment
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) The ANTICOV clinical trial, conducted in 13 African countries, has started the recruitment of participants to test a new drug combination to treat people with mild-to-moderate CO...
Metabolite fumarate can reveal cell damage: New method to generate fumarate for MRI
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) A promising new concept presented by an interdisciplinary research team paves the way for major advances in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Their new technique could...
NUS researchers discover protein that promotes chemotherapy resistance
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine) Researchers from NUS Medicine's Immunology Translational Research Programme and NUS Center for Cancer Research (N2CR) have identified how a molecule cal...
New mouse model provides first platform to study late-onset Alzheimer's disease
EurekAlert! - 27 Apr 2021 06:00
(University of California - Irvine) University of California, Irvine biologists have developed a new genetically engineered mouse model that, unlike its predecessors, is based on the most common form of Alzheimer's disea...