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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT researchers have generated what they describe as the most complete gene annotation of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. In their study, they confirmed several protein-coding genes and fou...

(Association for Psychological Science) The latest news and discoveries from the field of psychological science will be featured at the 2021 Virtual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), held May...

(University of Southampton) A study by the University of Southampton has shown its LifeLab programme, aimed at improving adolescent health through hands-on learning, significantly increases young people's understanding o...

(University of Birmingham) A new drug combination that is better at treating miscarriage is also more cost effective than current standard NHS treatment, finds a new study led by the University of Birmingham and Tommy's ...

(Garvan Institute of Medical Research) Targeting a heat production 'brake' on fat tissues may be a safer way to treat obesity than current medication.

(American College of Physicians) Majority of COVID-19 patients receiving home-based hospital care did not require care escalation to traditional hospital setting.

(Northwestern University) Like an airplane's black box, a woman's placenta can show if something went wrong during pregnancy. A new Northwestern Medicine study of 84 vaccinated patients and 116 control patients found the...

(University of Virginia Health System) The research offers some of the first clear guidance on the most effective methods to perform testing to detect COVID-19 in wastewater.

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Cells called astrocytes normally support our neurons, and now scientists are working to reprogram the star-shaped cells into neurons that help reconnect the brain and bo...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Most patients with depression are treated in primary care, however, relatively few clinical trials for treating depression have focused on primary care. Researchers at the Vrije Un...

(Duke-NUS Medical School) SingHealth Duke-NUS AMC and Cordlife partner to advance stem cell technology to first-in-man clinical trial in Singapore

(Gladstone Institutes) A team of researchers at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF) has adapted CRISPR-Cas9 for use in monocytes and shown the potential utility of the technology for understanding how the hu...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A stem cell gene therapy developed by a team of researchers from UCLA and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has successfully treated 48 of 50 children born wi...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Surgical cesarean births can expose new mothers to a range of health complications, including infection, blood clots and hemorrhage. As part of Healthy People 2020 and other matern...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) For patients seen at a urology clinic, patient satisfaction scores vary by insurance status - with higher scores for patients on Medicare and commercial insurance, but lower scores for those on Me...

(Duke University) A new study has identified a scent receptor in mosquitoes that helps them sniff out and avoid trace amounts of pyrethrum, a plant extract used for centuries to repel biting insects. These findings could...

(University of Melbourne) Melbourne researchers have identified predictors of both severe disease and recovery in hospitalised influenza patients, finding that the immune system works in concert to fight influenza.

(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) For the first time, researchers have estimated the impact of lockdown-related air pollution reduction on mortality in 47 provincial capital cities

(American Academy of Family Physicians) In order to make meaningful gains in cardiovascular disease care, primary care medical practices should adopt a set of care improvements specific to their practice size and type, a...

(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)) Scientists at the he Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBM-CSIC-UAM have shown that ...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Between 11% to 40% of adults in the United States experience chronic pain, and primary care physicians may feel ill-equipped to effectively and safely care for patients with chroni...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) MD Anderson and the Broad Institute have launched a translational research platform to study rare cancers. The initiative will lead to a first-of-its-kind resource for t...