Medical News
UVA Cancer Center, other top US cancer centers urge cancer-preventing HPV vaccinations
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(University of Virginia Health System) UVA Cancer Center is joining 70 other National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers and partner organizations in urging physicians, parents and young adults to get cance...
A COVID-fighter's guide to T cells
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) In a new paper, scientists from La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) bring together research findings from COVID-19 researchers around the world. The results are striking: human T c...
Asthma medication use and exacerbations
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute) How does the switch to a high-deductible health plan affect children with asthma? A new study suggests that enrollment in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) may not be associated...
CWRU-led research to determine which diabetic people can donate corneas for transplant
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(Case Western Reserve University) In a new study, supported by a five-year, $6.4 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Unive...
Can TV shows help teens navigate bullying, depression and other mental health issues?
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(University of California - Los Angeles) Popular television shows and movies can bolster teenagers' mental health and help them cope with bullying, sexual assault, suicidal thoughts, substance abuse and depression when t...
China makes remarkable gains in maternal and child survival rates
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(Murdoch Childrens Research Institute) China has made remarkable gains in reducing the number of women who die during childbirth and boosting child survival rates over the past 70 years, according to new review.
Decreased testing could lead to surge in sexually transmitted infections
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(Penn State) Screening and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) decreased by 63% for men and 59% for women during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study led by Penn State and Qu...
First clinical trial to assess Alzheimer's gene therapy receives $5 million
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(University of California - San Diego) The National Institute on Aging has awarded $5 million grant to researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine to conduct a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial of a gene therapy f...
Immune cells imperfect at distinguishing between friend and foe, study suggests
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(eLife ) When it comes to distinguishing a healthy cell from an infected one that needs to be destroyed, the immune system's killer T cells sometimes make mistakes.
Long COVID places 'huge burden' on survivors' families, new research suggests
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(Cardiff University) A new study by Cardiff University in collaboration with the University of Hertfordshire has revealed the huge "secondary burden" placed on those closest to people living with Long Covid.
Mothers' depression impacts mother-infant relationships
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(King's College London) Research led by King's College London has found that women with depression during pregnancy, or with a history of depression, had a reduced quality of mother-infant interaction at both eight weeks...
NIH awards $4.7m to Kennedy Krieger Institute researcher for movement learning study
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(PROFILES, Inc.) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded Amy Bastian, Ph.D., PT, chief science officer and director of the Motion Analysis Lab at Kennedy Krieger Institute, with an eight-year, $4.7 milli...
Nearly half of COVID-19 patients left hospital in worse physical condition
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Much of the conversation around COVID-19 focuses on death and survival. But 45% of patients hospitalized for the virus at Michigan Medicine during the pandemic's first wave ex...
New wiki on salivary proteins may transform diagnostic testing and personalized medicine
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(University at Buffalo) To improve the development of new saliva-based diagnostic tests and personalized medicine, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has supported the development of the H...
Non-hallucinogenic psychedelic analog reverses effects of stress in mouse study
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(University of California - Santa Cruz) A novel compound similar in structure to the psychedelic drug ibogaine, but lacking its toxic and hallucinogenic effects, has been found to rapidly reverse the effects of stress in...
Nonprofits, federal government surpass pharma to lead Alzheimer's drug development
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(Alzheimer's Association) Two articles published online today by Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, a journal of the Alzheimer's Association, show substantial changes in the focus an...
Physician-patient gender concordance may not matter in interventional practice
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) While some studies suggest female patients treated by female physicians have better outcomes, there does not appear to be a relationship between operator and patient gender an...
Press (re)play to remember - How the brain strengthens memories during sleep
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(University of Birmingham) While we sleep, the brain produces particular activation patterns. When two of these patterns - slow oscillations and sleep spindles - gear into each other, previous experiences are reactivated...
Racemases: The hunt for drugs to neutralise these critical enzymes
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(University of Bath) Scientists from the University of Bath in the UK explore racemases and propose strategies for finding drugs that target these important enzymes.
Researchers uncover mechanism related to severe post-COVID-19 disease in children
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(Massachusetts General Hospital) Researchers have determined that viral particles remaining in the gut long after an initial COVID-19 infection can travel into the bloodstream, instigating the condition called Multisyste...
Russian scientists synthesize effective compounds for anticancer drugs
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(South Ural State University) New effective compounds, which can be endogenous donors of a signaling molecule - hydrogen sulfide in the body, were synthesized by SUSU scientists. Due to this property, the obtained compou...
SARS-CoV-2 RNA discovery unlocks new potential treatments
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2021 06:00
(University of Oxford) An international and multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Glasgow, and University of Heidelberg, has uncovered the interactions that SARS-CoV-2 RNA e...