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(Nemours) Social, economic, and demographic factors that can influence health did not affect families' acceptance of telehealth for their children's cardiac care during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study present...

(American Geriatrics Society) The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) will recognize 15 researchers, clinicians, educators, and emerging health professionals who have made outstanding contributions to high-quality, person-...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) A Phase II trial at MD Anderson tound that BK virus (BKV)-specific T cells from healthy donors were safe and effective as an off-the-shelf therapy for BKV-associated hem...

(SingHealth) Changi General Hospital (CGH) and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have developed the Blood WArning Technology with Continuous Haemoglobin (BWATCH) sensor, a lightweight monitoring de...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A new study finds Black patients are more likely to die after their heart bypass surgery if they're at a hospital where some care teams see mostly white patients and others se...

(Cleveland Clinic) Cleveland Clinic, Lifebanc and Transplant Connect have designed and launched a fully automated donor referral system to streamline the process for hospital staff identifying and evaluating potential or...

(American Association for Thoracic Surgery) Multi-site study of pediatric and adult patients shows cfDNA holds promise as a non-invasive biomarker to assess for risk of rejection following heart transplantation.

(Flinders University) Medical researchers at Flinders University have established a new link between high body mass index (BMI) and breast cancer survival rates -- with clinical data revealing worse outcomes for early br...

(Virginia Commonwealth University) This study builds on decades of work showing that the protein IL-24 attacks cancer broadly, and is the first to deliver the protein using T cells. This approach is in contrast to CAR-T ...

(Penn State) In a study of people's reactions to radio host Rush Limbaugh's announcement of a lung cancer diagnosis and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's announcement of a diagnosis of COVID-19, researchers at Penn State found t...

(Medical University of Vienna) Dendritic cells are divided into Type 1 (DC1) and Type 2 (DC2) dendritic cells. Each type fulfils different functions: DC1 provide an immune response to bacteria and viruses, DC2 protect ag...

(University of Tennessee Health Science Center) The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has awarded Byron C. Jones, PhD, professor in the Department of Genetics, Geonomics, and Informatics at the Universi...

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Successful navigation requires the ability to separate memories in a context-dependent manner. For example, to find lost keys, one must first remember whether the keys were left in the kitchen o...

(Imperial College London) A single dose of vaccine boosts protection against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variants, but only in those with previous COVID-19, a study has found.

(Boston University School of Medicine) Doctors treating babies born with Turner syndrome need to look for heart rhythm abnormalities, in addition to the usual heart problems of high blood pressure or left-sided structura...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Roughly 40% to 50% of people with HIV smoke and lung cancer is now the leading cause of cancer deaths in this population. The study is designed to define best practices for connecti...

(American Association for Thoracic Surgery) A new study, presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, found that severely ill COVID-19 patients treated with ECMO did not suffer worse long-term outcomes than other me...

(American College of Surgeons) Evidence from the medical literature that contributes to adopting a new practice into clinical care is integral for surgical quality improvement. Part II of a comprehensive review of five k...

(Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions) New study results, presented at SCAI 2021, validate the effectiveness of the Medtronic Harmony™ transcatheter pulmonary valve (TPV) system for patients with co...

(Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions) An analysis of a new international registry reveals benefits of using a longer covered stent for interventional procedures in congenital heart disease patients w...

(The Lancet) Largest study so far of more than 17 million adults in England confirms that minority ethnic groups had a higher risk of testing positive, hospitalisation, admission to intensive care units (ICU), and death ...

(Salk Institute) Salk researchers and collaborators show how the novel coronavirus spike protein damages cells, confirming COVID-19 as a primarily vascular disease.