Medical News

(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...

(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...

(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.

(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 ...

(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...

(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.

(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.

(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...

(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...

(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 ...

(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...

(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 ...

(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 ...

(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...

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) A new software improves data-independent acquisition proteomics by providing a computational workflow that permits highly sensitive and accurate data analysis

(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...

(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...

(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...

(University of Southampton) A world-first trial has shown that nose drops of modified 'friendly' bacteria protect against meningitis.

(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...

(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...

(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...