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(Medical University of South Carolina) MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers are finding solutions to the aging-related changes that reduce anti-cancer immunity. Their work, published in Cell Reports, sheds light on an...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Patients with dementia and especially Alzheimer's run a threefold risk of dying as a result of infection by SARS-CoV-2. The risk is six times greater if they are ov...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) In a new article published in Clinical Cancer Research, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers reveal how different therapies impact the surrounding immune environment of me...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Researchers have demonstrated how to use standardized reporting of clinical data for seizures caused by a variety of neurological disorders, providing fundamental baseline informatio...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) The COVID-19 shutdown initially seemed to hit pause on pregnancy and birth rates, new research from one major hospital system suggests, but that trend is quickly reversing.

(International & American Associations for Dental Research) Dental care professionals are thought to be at enhanced risk of occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2, but robust data to support this is lacking. The study 'COVI...

(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) Adverse childhood experiences, also called ACEs, can result in toxic stress--a physiologic response to severe adversity. Children's Hospital Los Angeles has been awarded a $2 million gra...

(Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) A study published in the journal Pediatrics shows the combination of two early reading programs had positive effects on preschool students entering kindergarten in Cincinna...

(Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation) Five scientists with exceptional promise and novel approaches to fighting cancer have been named the 2021 recipients of the Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award. The a...

(University of Houston) With social disorders, like autism, people suffer from an inability to respond to social cues. Interestingly, African Cichlid fish are excellent at responding to social cues, building social struc...

(Scripps Research Institute) Mining the world's most comprehensive drug repurposing collection for COVID-19 therapies, scientists have identified 90 existing drugs or drug candidates with antiviral activity against the c...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the National Academy of Medicine, Manson and co-author Cynthia Stuenkel, M.D., of the University of California San Diego's School of Medicine, wro...

(Henry Ford Health System) Cardiologists at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan are first in the U.S. and second in the world to implant a circulatory support device that is being investigated in a clinical trial fo...

(Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) ew research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) medical oncologist Dean Bajorin, MD, and colleagues found that patients who received nivolumab (Opdivo®) after bladd...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Treatment with an immunotherapy drug following kidney cancer surgery, prolonged disease-free survival rates in patients at high risk for recurrence, according to an interim report of a phas...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) UNC School of Medicine researchers led by mucin expert Mehmet Kesimer, PhD, had previously discovered that the total mucin concentrations in the lungs are associated with COPD d...

(George Mason University) George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication (Mason 4C) received $150,000 from HT, LLC for the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. The Consortium, a program of...

(George Mason University) Could an over-the-counter health "shot" help fight COVID-19? George Mason University researchers think it just might. Cell and Bioscience recently highlighted research led by Yuntao Wu and Ramin...

(Mayo Clinic) ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A study by Mayo Clinic researchers provides some clarity in the use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC), such as apixaban and rivaroxaban, to treat acute venous thromboembolism (VTE) in...

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Mockingbirds follow similar musical rules as those found in human music, from Beethoven to Kendrick Lamar.

(Rice University) Postpartum women in bad romantic relationships are not only more likely to suffer symptoms of depression, they are also at greater long-term risk of illness or death, according to new research from Rice...

(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) A new method to monitor epidemics like COVID-19 gives an accurate real-time estimate of the growth rate of an epidemic by carefully evaluating the relationship between the amou...