Medical News
Were Humans Born to Walk Barefoot?
Discover - 16 Jul 2021 22:05
Is going barefoot actually better for us? Here's what the science says
3D "assembloid" shows how SARS-CoV-2 infects brain cells
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine have produced a stem cell model that demonstrates a potential route of entry of SAR...
Artificial sweeteners enable delivery of carbon monoxide to treat organ injury
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(Georgia State University) An oral prodrug developed by a team of scientists led by Binghe Wang, Regents' Professor of Chemistry at Georgia State University, delivers carbon monoxide to protect against acute kidney injur...
Common COVID-19 antibiotic no more effective than placebo
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of California - San Francisco) A UC San Francisco study has found that the antibiotic azithromycin was no more effective than a placebo in preventing symptoms of COVID-19 among non-hospitalized patients, and ...
Evaluation of India's 'Mission Indradhanush' finds improvements in vaccination outcomes
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy) Washington, DC / New Delhi, India - Researchers at CDDEP recently published 'Improving vaccination coverage and timeliness through periodic intensification of routine imm...
Exploring gap between excess mortality, COVID-19 deaths in 67 countries
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(JAMA Network) What The Study Did: National health care systems have different capacities to correctly identify people who died of COVID-19. Researchers in this study analyzed the gap between excess mortality and COVID-1...
Ficlatuzumab plus chemotherapy may benefit patients with relapsed/refractory AML
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(American Association for Cancer Research) The investigational therapeutic ficlatuzumab in combination with chemotherapy showed signs of clinical efficacy in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia.
From birth control to mammograms, many women missed out on preventive care for all of 2020
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) The COVID-19 pandemic knocked many women off schedule for important health appointments, a new study finds, and many didn't get back on schedule even after clinics reopened. T...
How a butterfly tree becomes a web
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(SMBE journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)) Scientists reveal a key role for interspecific gene flow in the continent-wide adaptive radiation of the Heliconius butterflies.
Ludwig Cancer Research study reveals even transient chromosomal errors can initiate cancer
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) A Ludwig Cancer Research study has found that inducing random chromosome instability (CIN) events in mice for as little as one week is enough to trigger harmful chromosomal patterns...
New Sinai Health research finds common denominator linking all cancers
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute) All cancers fall into just two categories, according to new research from scientists at Sinai Health, in findings that could provide a new strategy for treating the most aggressiv...
New UK study reveals extent of brain complications in children hospitalized with COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(University of Liverpool) Although the risk of a child being admitted to hospital due to COVID-19 is small, a new UK study has found that around 1 in 20 of children hospitalised with COVID-19 develop brain or nerve compl...
New theory suggests blood immune and clotting components could contribute to psychosis
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(RCSI) A scientific review has found evidence that a disruption in blood clotting and the first line immune system could be contributing factors in the development of psychosis.
Psychiatric patients at increased risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) In the largest systematic review and meta-analysis to date on COVID-19 outcomes in individuals with psychiatric disorders, the odds of dying or being hospitalized following C...
RUDN University biologists prove the anticancer potential of macrophages
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(RUDN University) RUDN University biologists discovered the way how macrophages (the cells of the "first line" immune response) respond to inflammation and identified how the immune response depends on their origin. It t...
SUV39H2: A direct genetic link to autism spectrum disorders
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(RIKEN) New research from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan has identified a direct link between the SUV39h2 gene and the development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A human variant of the SUV39H2 gen...
Study finds vaccine hesitancy lower in poorer countries
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(Innovations for Poverty Action) New research published in Nature Medicine reveals willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine was considerably higher in developing countries (80% of respondents) than in the United States (65%...
Study identifies monoclonal antibodies that may neutralize many norovirus variants
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, have taken a big step toward developing targeted treatments and vacc...
When mad AIOLOS drags IKAROS down: A novel pathogenic mechanism
EurekAlert! - 16 Jul 2021 06:00
(Tokyo Medical and Dental University) Researchers from TMDU have described a novel primary immunodeficiency due to a mutation in AIOLOS. This acts through a novel pathogenic mechanism termed "heterodimeric interference",...