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(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) With preseason football training on the horizon, a new study shows that head impacts experienced during practice are associated with changes in brain imaging of young players over mul...

(Niigata University) The information presented in this study is primarily positioned to benefit scientists and experts in Cellular Physiology and Histochemistry where new tools to discover therapeutic targets for muscle ...

After a decade of planning, one lab has created a device that might make a common procedure safer and simpler.

(University of Missouri-Columbia) A review of more than 9,000 US patients with severe COVID-19 infection showed less than 1% contracted the illness again, with an average reinfection time of 3.5 months after an initial p...

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Guided by the EUHA's motto 'Leading by Doing,' the partner institutions used the eighth Members' Assembly to launch more pioneering initiatives. One of these, a European Nursing N...

(Oregon State University) Research by Oregon State University suggests a pair of compounds originating from hops can help thwart a dangerous buildup of fat in the liver known as hepatic steatosis.

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Evaluation of three COVID-19 vaccine candidates in 2020-21 during a worldwide pandemic was unprecedented in terms of urgency and scope. Responsibility for the safety, integrity and s...

(University of Washington) The study found that rebates were associated with increases in out-of-pocket costs for patients by an average of $6 for those with commercial insurance, $13 for Medicare patients and $39 for th...

(The Endocrine Society) The Endocrine Society--a professional organization of more than 18,000 health care providers and scientists worldwide--praised the American Medical Association's House of Delegates for passing a r...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Changing your eating habits or altering your circadian clock can impact healthy fat tissue throughout your lifespan, according to a preclinical study published today...

(Henry Ford Health System) Henry Ford Hospital has partnered with Atlas Lift Tech, Inc. and Arjo Diligent Clinical Consultants to launch a program aimed at enhancing the safety of patients and team members.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Hippopotamus aren't the first thing that come to mind when considering epidemiology and disease ecology. And yet these amphibious megafauna offered UC Santa Barbara ecologist Ke...

(KU Leuven) Stem cell biologist Hugo Vankelecom (KU Leuven) and his colleagues have discovered that the pituitary gland in mice ages as the result of an age-related form of chronic inflammation. It may be possible to slo...

(University of California - Los Angeles) A UCLA clinical trial has shown encouraging results in helping daily smokers who are also heavy drinkers quit smoking and reduce their alcohol intake.

(Texas A&M University) In 1943, two scientists named Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria conducted an experiment to show that bacteria can mutate randomly, independent of external stimulus, such as an antibiotic that threat...

(University of Southampton) A "3D Culture System" developed by University of Southampton has closely replicated how cells infected with TB change in the human lung. Analytical evidence of these changes identified 7 key g...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Researchers have succeeded for the first time in demonstrating the role of hypothalamic astrocytes in obesity-related hypertension. In additi...

(King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)) An extended epidemic model that accounts for uncertainty and the latest data can better predict the evolution of pandemics.

(University of Würzburg) Research teams from Würzburg, Munich, Erlangen and the MDC in Berlin have identified, for the first time, where special receptors are located on heart muscle cells. Their findings open up new p...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have developed two rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19 that are nearly as accurate as the gold-standard tes...

(RCSI) Scientists have identified how and why some Covid-19 patients can develop life-threatening clots, which could lead to targeted therapies that prevent this from happening.

(SAGE) Authors of three scientific papers -- two from the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) and one from science, technology, and medicine (STM) -- are receiving SAGE Publishing's second annual 10-Year Impact Awards. ...