Medical News

(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.

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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.

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...