Medical News

(University of California - Riverside) White evangelicals are best persuaded to mask up through messages that stress the Christian doctrine of "love thy neighbor," according to a UCR-authored study published Tuesday. The...

(University of Otago) A person's stance on abortion is linked to their, often inaccurate, belief about when a fetus can feel pain, a University of Otago study has found.

(Impact Journals LLC) THE SECOND WEEK OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (AACR) ANNUAL MEETING WILL CONTINUE TO BE A VIRTUAL EVENT. AGING, BY IMPACT JOURNALS, IS PROUD TO BE A PARTICIPANT IN WEEK TWO OF THE ...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) In a new study from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, researchers evaluated the immunogenicity of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in pregnant and lactating women who received either the ...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) More than 90% of students worked during the pandemic on average nearly 34 hours per week. Juggling school, a varied work-load and changes to their schedules all significan...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) According to an open-access Editor's Choice article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology, CT features may help identify which patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer are op...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health announced today the creation of the Jennifer Schlech...

(Washington State University) Rush hour will likely return when pandemic lockdowns lift, but a new study suggests that congestion pricing--policies that charge tolls for driving during peak hours--could not only cure tra...

(Ohio State University) A new study's findings dispel the misconception that patients and providers are at high risk of catching COVID-19 at the dentist's office.

(Massachusetts General Hospital) B cells are the immune cells responsible for creating antibodies, and most produce antibodies in response to a pathogen or a vaccine. A small subset of B cells instead spontaneously make ...

(Scripps Research Institute) A family of proteins that sense mechanical force--and enable our sense of touch and many other important bodily functions--also are essential for proper root growth in some plants, according ...

(Hospital for Special Surgery) In a study conducted by researchers at HSS, cumulative opioid use was reduced by 30% in a patient group that received duloxetine after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) compared with patients w...

(University of Iowa Health Care) A small drug molecule that appears to protect normal tissue from the damaging effects of radiation, may simultaneously be able to boost the cancer-killing effect of radiation therapy, acc...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) The chemical compound glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide, can weaken the immune systems of insects.

(Kaiser Permanente) Among cancer patients with health coverage in Southern California, those who were diagnosed and treated at Kaiser Permanente, an integrated health care organization, had better survival rates, especia...

(Tokyo Institute of Technology) All modern life is cellular, but how life came to be cellular remains uncertain. New research shows that simple chemical compounds known as hydroxy acids, which were likely common on primi...

(Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Science) The relevance of pet dog biobanking in molecular research and the initiative to make pioneering steps in this field. The Hungarian Canine Brain and Tissue Bank (CB...

(University of Kent) New research led by the University of Kent has found that people fail to recognise the role of factory farming in causing infectious diseases.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Clinicians and scientists have long observed that cells in overstressed hearts have high levels of the simple sugar O-GlcNAc modifying thousands of proteins within cells. Now, researchers at John...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Cytokine-activated natural killer (NK) cells derived from donated umbilical cord blood, combined with an investigational bispecific antibody targeting CD16a and CD30 kno...

(Faculty of 1000) Taylor & Francis Group has launched the pilot of a new book publishing concept, Open Plus Books, that fuses the traditional print and Open Access books model with F1000's Open Research publishing model.

(Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) Australian researchers have documented the diversity of cells in the human breast, explaining the relationship between healthy breast cells and breast cancer cells. The research, which r...