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(Children's Hospital Colorado) Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) is one of seven pediatric hospitals joining Childhood Asthma in Urban Settings (CAUSE), a clinical research network established by the Nat...

(Queensland University of Technology) Molecules from the same family as the anti-coagulant drug heparin may interfere with the ability of the COVID-19 virus's spikes to bind to human cells. This could be used to treat pe...

(McGill University) The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the global rate. A new study led by researchers from McGill University finds that cold-adapted Arctic species, like the thick-billed murre, are especially ...

(Elsevier) Tourette syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder, causes motor and phonic "tics," or uncontrollable repeated behaviors and vocalizations. People affected by Tourette syndrome can often suppress these tics for ...

(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) As more evidence emerges that opioid overdose deaths have increased dramatically since the onset of COVID-19, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), in collaboration w...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Testing returned to pre-pandemic levels in late 2020 except with colonoscopies for colorectal cancer screening, which continued to lag. Rates of mammography for breast cancer screening were...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) A decade's worth of data shows that neonatologists are shifting the type of respiratory support they utilize for preterm infants, a move that could lead to improved health outcomes.

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Researchers have produced vaccine-like immune responses to a dangerous bacterium by colonizing 26 healthy volunteers with a related, but harmless, commensal bacterial...

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) Estrogen has been thought to play a role in a woman's risk of developing Alzheimer disease (AD). A new study has taken a different approach to identifying risk factors for AD...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) A metabolic control pathway that regulates T follicular helper cells offers targets for drugs to stimulate the adaptive immune response.

(University of California - Berkeley) In a new paper in Neuron, 45 neuroscientists review the extensive literature on gender bias in academia -- the forms it takes and suggested remedies -- and compile a comprehensive ch...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a new study on mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that using MRI scans to measure blood volume in the brain can serve as a noninvasive way to potentially track the progress of gen...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute have received $3 million to create a precision, community-based program to address specific health p...

(Emory Health Sciences) Data from nine cities in Mexico confirms that identifying dengue fever "hot spots" can provide a predictive map for future outbreaks of Zika and chikungunya. All three of these viral diseases are ...

(McMaster University) A McMaster University team of researchers recently discovered how, exactly, the COVID-19 vaccines that use adenovirus vectors trigger a rare but sometimes fatal blood clotting reaction called vaccin...

(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) For patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC), molecular imaging can improve staging and clinical management of the disease, according to research publishe...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Mount Sinai researchers have uncovered the complex cellular mechanisms of Ebola virus, which could help explain its severe toll on humans and identify potential...

(University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) The body is filled with mucus that keeps track of the bacteria. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen present the first method for prod...

(Boston University School of Medicine) The discovery of novel groups or categories within diseases, organisms and biological processes and their organization into hierarchical relationships are important and recurrent pu...

(Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) A genetic map of an aggressive childhood brain tumour called medulloblastoma has helped researchers identify a new generation anti-cancer drug that can be repurposed as an effective trea...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Colorado researchers have published new findings in Emerging Infectious Diseases that take a first look at the use of SARS-CoV-2 mathematical modeling to inform early stat...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) The murders of George Floyd and other Black Americans have prompted a national outcry against structural racism and police brutality. How are leading nursing organizations and schools of nursing d...