Medical News

(University of South Florida (USF Health)) Monoclonal antibodies work well in reducing COVID-19 related emergency department visits and hospitalizations when administered early to high-risk patients, a study by the Unive...

(New York University) "Red flag" gun laws--which allow law enforcement to temporarily remove firearms from a person at risk of harming themselves or others--are gaining attention at the state and federal levels, but are ...

Elderly Tsimané in Bolivia have healthier hearts and brains than industrialized societies, scientists say.

(Elsevier) Women with depression and other mood disorders are generally advised to continue taking antidepressant medications during pregnancy. The drugs are widely considered safe, but the effect of these medications on...

(University of British Columbia) Working in the highly charged environment of COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the mental health of nurses, according to a new survey by researchers at the University of British Columbia ...

(BMJ) An editorial published by The BMJ today raises important concerns about the health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce after a parliamentary report found "burnout is a widespread reality in today's NHS."

(Elsevier) After beginning treatment with remdesivir for COVID-19, a patient experienced significant bradycardia, or low heart rate. Her physicians used a dopamine infusion to stabilize her through the five-day course of...

(City of Hope) City of Hope has identified how cancer cells in patients with early-stage breast cancer change and become resistant to hormone or combination therapies. Andrea Bild, Ph.D., used single-cell RNA sequencing ...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The ninth volume of 'Frontiers in Anti-Infective Drug Discovery' discusses clinical and pre-clinical antimicrobial drug development, it also focuses on drugs to treat leishmaniosis and dengue...

(University of Adelaide) An international team of researchers co-led by the University of Adelaide and the University of Arizona has analysed the genomes of more than 2,500 modern humans from 26 worldwide populations, to...

(University of North Texas Health Science Center) The project is the only comprehensive, large-scale Alzheimer's research study into the three largest ethnic groups in the U.S. - Non-Hispanic whites, Mexican Americans an...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Scientists from Helmholtz Zentrum München revise the current textbook knowledge about gastrulation, the formation of the basic body plan dur...

(Institute of Cancer Research) A new study could lead to improved decision making in assigning treatments for children with the aggressive cancer rhabdomyosarcoma after revealing key genetic changes underlying developmen...

(Salk Institute) A new Salk study shows that inhibitory neurons do more than just inhibit neuron activity like an off-switch; paradoxically, they actually increase the amount of information transmitted through the nervou...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Researchers report that about a quarter of localized prostate cancers may demonstrate immunologic traits that would allow a substantial number of patients with prostate cancer to be...

(European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) Intra-articular therapies (IAT) are frequently used to treat joint conditions such as gout, rheumatoid arthritis, or osteoarthritis. The procedure involves inserting a...

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) The cells of simple organisms, such as bacteria, as well as human cells are surrounded by a membrane, which fulfills various tasks including protecting the cell from stress. Resear...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Mount Sinai Study Finds That Rotator Cuff Injuries Account for Nearly Half of Shoulder Injuries Among Collegiate Baseball Players, Identifies Other Risks

(Goethe University Frankfurt) An extended application of the CRISPR-Cas technology has been made possible by Dr Manual Kaulich's team at Goethe University: the new 3Cs multiplex technique allows the effect of genetic cha...

(Cactus Communications) Several patients suffering from leukemia, who have undergone stem cell transplantation, are at a risk of relapse, owing to varied reasons. Before the inevitable, what if it is possible to predict ...

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Parents of children with Complex Medical Conditions were five times more likely to report suffering from poor or fair mental than parents of kids without these conditions, and als...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) As the ravages of the opioid epidemic lead many to avoid these powerful painkillers, a significant number of people with fibromyalgia are finding an effective replacement in C...