Medical News
Addressing social needs may help mitigate distress and improve the health of women with cancer
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Wiley) A new study published by Wiley early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, has identified unmet social needs in women with gynecologic cancer that could be addressed to improve...
A Trojan horse could help get drugs past our brain's tough border patrol
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) The blood-brain barrier protects the brain and is notoriously hard to get past for drug delivery, making it difficult to treat disorders in the cent...
A redundant modular network supports proper brain communication
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Baylor College of Medicine) In a mouse model, brain regions involved in working memory present a modular network organization that is critical for persistent neural activity.
Artificial intelligence could be new blueprint for precision drug discovery
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe a new approach that uses machine learning to hunt for disease targets and then predicts whether a drug ...
BU researchers develop novel, woman controlled contraceptive product
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Boston University School of Medicine) Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and ZabBio (San Diego, CA) have developed an anti-sperm monoclonal antibody, the Human Contraception Antibody (HCA), whi...
Brandon Jutras receives Emerging Leader Award to advance Lyme disease research
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Virginia Tech) The awards are designed to support established and up-and-coming scientists who have identified new and defined approaches to improve diagnostics or therapeutics for Lyme disease.
Crystal clear: Lepidopterans have many ways of being transparent
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Ecological Society of America) Breakthrough paper reveals multiple mechanisms for wing transparency in butterflies and moths; shows that wing transparency has evolved multiple times in lepidopterans.
Direct flights save lives! New airline routes can increase kidney sharing by more than 7%
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) It's a supply and demand problem, it's a transportation problem, it's a donor problem - and that just scratches the surface. According to the Organ Procurem...
Do more visits with kidney specialists improve dialysis patient-reported outcomes?
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(American Society of Nephrology) Patients with kidney failure did not report better experience with care from more frequent face-to-face visits with kidney specialists at dialysis facilities. In fact, more frequent visit...
Gene therapy offers long-awaited hope for children with rare, incurable disorder
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of California - San Francisco) Children with a devastating genetic disorder characterized by severe motor disability and developmental delay have experienced sometimes dramatic improvements in a gene therapy ...
Heart risk 'calculators' overlook increased risk for people of South Asian ancestry
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(American Heart Association) When compared to individuals of European ancestry, South Asians had a more than two-fold risk of developing heart disease.Risk calculators used by clinicians to guide decisions about preventi...
Improving transitional care improves outcomes important to patients in the 'real world'
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Wolters Kluwer Health) Transitions between healthcare sites - such as from the hospital to home or to a skilled nursing facility - carry known risks to patient safety. Many programs have attempted to improve continuity ...
India national school meal program linked to improved growth in children of beneficiaries
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(International Food Policy Research Institute) New study provides the first examination of the impact school meals programs have on the children of those served, finding the next generation of beneficiaries tend to have ...
MD Anderson and Hummingbird Bioscience announce strategic research collaboration to advance innovative immunotherapies
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) MD Anderson and Hummingbird Bioscience announced a multi-year strategic research collaboration to investigate HMBD-002, Hummingbird's VISTA antagonist antibody, as a nov...
MaxDIA -- taking proteomics to the next level
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) A new software improves data-independent acquisition proteomics by providing a computational workflow that permits highly sensitive and accurate data analysis
New study may offer treatment guidance for MIS-C
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Rutgers University) Children and adolescents with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) who are treated initially with intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) and glucocorticoids have reduced risk for serious...
Novel screening approach improves diagnosis of metabolic disorders in newborns
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Baylor College of Medicine) A screening method known as untargeted metabolomics profiling can improve the diagnostic rate for inborn errors of metabolism, a group of rare genetic conditions, by about seven-fold when com...
PCORI approves $11 million for studies to boost COVID-19 vaccination among long-term care workers
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) Two new studies comparing ways to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates aim to reduce high rates of vaccine hesitancy among workers in skilled nursing facilities and other long-t...
People given 'friendly' bacteria in nose drops protected against meningitis
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of Southampton) A world-first trial has shown that nose drops of modified 'friendly' bacteria protect against meningitis.
Preferred life expectancy and its association with hypothetical adverse life scenarios
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A new study sheds light on how the specter of dementia and chronic pain reduce people's desire to live into older ages. Among Norwegians 60 years of age and older t...
Progress towards new treatments for tuberculosis
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) Boosting the body's own disease-fighting immune pathway could provide answers in the desperate search for new treatments for tuberculosis. Tuberculosis still represents an enormous globa...
Remarkable new insights into the pathology of Usher syndrome
EurekAlert! - 12 Jul 2021 06:00
(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) Human Usher syndrome is the most common form of hereditary deaf-blindness. Researchers have now identified a novel pathomechanism leading to Usher syndrome. They have discovered th...