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(Tel-Aviv University) Researchers at Tel Aviv University discovered a process by which a "good" virus selectively destroys the DNA of "bad" bacteria, thereby stopping its reproduction. The discovery may assist in the dev...

(Cactus Communications) Vaccines are critical tools for fighting COVID-19, and new vaccines will expand overall vaccine availability. In an article recently published in Chinese Medical Journal, a research team use phase...

(ERA-EDTA) Due to the immunological pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy, patients used to be given immunosuppressive therapy; however, this was shown to have no long-term benefit over optimal supportive therapy. Promising da...

(Boston Children's Hospital) Choroid plexus tissue, anchored in each of the brain's ventricles and bathed in cerebrospinal fluid, is a small but influential player in the brain. It's now been spatially inventoried with s...

(ERA-EDTA) Renal tropism or virus detection can be associated with severe course, greater incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) and earlier death - yet the immediate role of the virus in the kidney has not been clarifie...

(ERA-EDTA) It was realized early on in the pandemic that kidney values can predict a severe COVID-19 course [1]. A new concern is that molecular tissue changes caused by the virus could lead in the long term to kidney in...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) The device was used for the first time to culture two maternal endometrial cell types, revealing the effects of alterations in glucose and insulin levels in the ute...

(ERA-EDTA) Many patients with the rare kidney disease FSGS require dialysis in the course of the disease, despite anti-inflammatory corticosteroid therapies. The DAPA-CKD study showed a significant benefit in renal outco...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues suggests a slowdown in the use of convalescent plasma to treat h...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Employees who received automated, personalized feedback on their cafeteria purchases at work made healthier food choices. Although the intervention led to dietary changes, it did not prev...

(University of Southern Denmark Faculty of Health Sciences) In a current study published in Scientific Reports, researchers from University of Southern Denmark and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden investigated the effects...

(International Osteoporosis Foundation) A new report by the International Osteoporosis Foundation draws attention to the burden of osteoporosis and the gaps/inequalities in the provision of primary and secondary preventi...

(Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa ITQB NOVA) In young women, Staphylococcus saprophyticus is a main cause of urinary tract infections (UTI), reaching 20% preval...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Frequent caffeine intake could more than triple risk of glaucoma for those genetically predisposed to higher eye pressure.

(Wiley) New research indicates that patients hospitalized with active cancer were more likely to die from COVID-19 than those with a history of cancer or those without any cancer diagnosis. The findings published by Wile...

(RMIT University) Nem Chua is eaten raw but doesn't cause food poisoning when prepared correctly. Food scientists went to explore why - and discovered a powerful new bacteria-killer. On World Food Safety Day (7 June), a ...

(University of Gothenburg) More active efforts to reduce patients' time on a ventilator in an ICU can both spare their suffering and free up intensive care resources, a thesis at the University of Gothenburg shows.

(American Society of Criminology) A new study examined ERPO use in Oregon in the first 15 months after it was adopted. The study found that while extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) are commonly considered as a tool t...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) A new global study found that while death was uncommon among young COVID-19 patients, symptoms and complications were more prevalent than among youth with influenza.

(BMC (BioMed Central)) Travelers abroad may pick up bacteria and other vectors containing genes conferring antimicrobial resistance which remain in the gut when returning to their home country, according to a study publi...

(Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont) Youth brain activation data from the largest longitudinal neuroimaging study to date provides valuable new information on the cognitive processes and brain system...

(ERA-EDTA) In hemodialysis patients at high cardiovascular risk, including patients with coronary artery disease and heart failure, lung congestion, a condition predisposing to decompensated heart failure and pulmonary e...