Medical News
Heart problems resolve in majority of kids with COVID inflammatory syndrome
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Most of the heart and immunologic problems seen in children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C)--a condition linked to COVID--were gone within a few months, Columbia...
Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi receives Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(American Federation for Aging Research) Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN (UW Center for Health Disparities Research and UW School of Nursing) is recognized with the 2021 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Ser...
Antihypertension drug may help patients with noncancerous brain tumors affecting hearing
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Massachusetts General Hospital) New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Eye and Ear indicates that the blood pressure drug losartan may benefit patients with neurofibr...
Biomolecular bonsai: Controlling the pruning and strengthening of neuron branches
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Kyushu University) How neuronal circuits remodel themselves over time, especially during early development, is a major question in neurobiology. Using mice, researchers from Kyushu University have uncovered a biomolecul...
Co-locating contraceptive services and opioid treatment programs may help prevent unintended pregnancy
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont) More than 75% of women with Opioid Use Disorder report having had an unintended pregnancy, but they are less likely to use effective contraception compared to wom...
ComCor study on SARS-CoV-2: where are French people catching the virus?
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Institut Pasteur) The Institut Pasteur, in partnership with the French National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM), Santé publique France and the Ipsos Social Research Institute, recently presented the results of the ComCor ...
Common medication used to reduce cholesterol levels may reduce COVID-19 severity
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of California - San Diego) Using anonymized medical records from a national registry, UC San Diego researchers confirm earlier findings that statins may substantially minimize adverse outcomes from SARS-CoV-2...
Comprehensive primary care is vital to holistic care and optimal recovery after a stroke
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(American Heart Association) The new scientific statement acknowledges the importance of primary care in the system of care for patients with stroke, summarizing the available literature and providing a roadmap for holis...
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $4.8 million to rising investigators
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation) Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has announced the 2021 recipients of the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator award--six outstanding early career physician-scientists worki...
Food insufficiency linked to lack of mental health services during pandemic
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of Toronto) A new national study published in Public Health Nutrition on July 15 found that Americans experiencing food insufficiency were three times as likely to lack mental health support during the COVID-...
Government's latest pandemic plan recklessly exposes millions to effects of mass infection
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(BMJ) The UK government's latest pandemic plan involves recklessly exposing millions of people to the acute and long-term effects of mass infection, warn experts in The BMJ today.
Helping working cancer caregivers manage stress
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Bradley received a nearly $4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study ways to lessen the impacts of stress specifically on cancer caregivers who are also ...
Hopkins Med news update
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) NEWS STORIES IN THIS ISSUE:- COVID-19 News: Can Dietary Supplements Help the Immune System Fight Coronavirus Infection?- Johns Hopkins Medicine Helps Develop Physician Training to Prevent Gun Inj...
Identification of over 200 long COVID symptoms prompts call for UK screening programme
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(University College London) Patients who experience long COVID have reported more than 200 symptoms across 10 organ systems, in the largest international study of 'long-haulers' to date, led by UCL scientists together wi...
James Peyer to present at the 8th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting 2021
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Deep Longevity Ltd) James Peyer to present new research in the biology of aging at the world's largest aging research for drug discovery conference.
Kelp for corn? Illinois scientists demystify natural products for crops
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Corn growers can choose from a wide array of products to make the most of their crop, but the latest could bring seaweed extract to a ...
Launch of UNITE4TB partnership marks a new era in Tuberculosis treatment development
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Radboud University Medical Center) To advance anti-tuberculosis (TB) science and enable theprogression of new, safe, and affordable treatment solutions for TB patients worldwide, a newconsortium of 30 partners from 13 c...
Looking beyond the numbers to see pandemic's effect on nursing home residents
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Regenstrief Institute) A study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine research scientists is one of the first to describe and identify patterns in the course of COVID-19 in the typically fr...
Moffitt Physician receives NCI Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Zeynep Eroglu, MD, assistant member of the Cutaneous Oncology Department at Moffitt Cancer Center, received the 2021 Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award ...
New Book Defines Trend: Meet the Multispecies Family
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Southern Methodist University) - In her new book, Just Like Family: How Companion Animals Joined the Household SMU sociologist Andrea Laurent-Simpson asserts what most pet-owners already know - the American family struc...
New COVID-19 vaccine candidate provides effective option for low- to mid-income countries
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(Emory Health Sciences) Combining yeast-expression technology and a novel adjuvant formulation to produce a COVID-19 vaccine candidate is effective against SARS-COV-2 and promises to be easy to produce at large scale and...
New guidance on how to diagnosis and manage osteoporosis in chronic kidney disease
EurekAlert! - 15 Jul 2021 06:00
(International Osteoporosis Foundation) This new review by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) CKD-MBD working group prov...