Medical News

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Every spring, the Daylight Saving Time shift robs people of an hour of sleep - and a new study shows that DNA plays a role in how much the time change affects individuals. Peo...

(University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine) Researchers want sexual assault survivors to know that it's normal to feel awful right after the assault, but that many will feel better within three months. They...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) At the organization responsible for certifying the training and skills of US urologists, achieving and maintaining diversity, equity and inclusion is more than just a "numbers game," according to ...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) William L. "Bill" Greene, PharmD, chief pharmaceutical officer, to receive the 2021 Shelby Rhinehart Public Service Lifetime Achievement Award.

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) EPFL researchers have found that a form of neuron-to-neuron communication that has long been dismissed as 'background noise' is required to keep nerve junctions intact as anim...

(International Vaccine Institute) The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) today announced a new programme of clinical research which aims to expand access ...

(American College of Physicians) 1. Currently used SARS-CoV-2 vaccines more than 95% effective in preventing confirmed infection ; 2. Having sickle cell disease quadruples risk for COVID-19-related hospitalization and do...

(Michigan State University) Diagnosing a rare medical condition is difficult. Identifying a treatment for it can take years of trial and error. In a serendipitous intersection of research expertise, an ill patient in thi...

(Children's National Hospital) Up to 2,000 children and young adults will be enrolled in a study from Children's National Hospital in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) t...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) An internal transporter that enables us to use the copper we consume in foods like shellfish and nuts to enable a host of vital body functions also has the essential rol...

(University of Toronto) A new scoping review found that those with chronic health concerns, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and autoimmune conditions, are not only at a higher risk of severe COVID-19 infection, ...

(IOS Press) Well over six million people globally have been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD), which has an enormous impact on the lives of patients, their families, and caregivers and is incurring mounting costs f...

(University of Michigan) A recent study led by Geoff Burns, an elite runner and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan Exercise & Sport Science Initiative, compared the "bouncing behavior"--the underlying ...

(University of Minnesota) Led by the University of Minnesota, a study found that a majority of adolescents and their parents considered health care provider discussions about sexual health important, but less than one-th...

(University of Houston) When it comes to improving access to mental health services for children and families in low-income communities, a University of Houston researcher found having a warm handoff, which is a transfer...

(University of Exeter) Decreasing bacterial acidity could help reduce antimicrobial resistance by eliminating bacteria that can survive being treated with antibiotics.

(University of Southern California) The USC Viterbi School of Engineering, The Gehr Family Center at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and the USC Price School of Public Policy are jointly hosting four 2-hour online se...

(The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research) The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research announces a $1 million grant to The Jackson Laboratory to study the relationship between genetics and the harmful side effects of cancer i...

(Virginia Tech) The $466,669 grant, awarded to Raymundo Hernandez, supports exceptional graduate students who are interested in pursuing careers as independent researchers.

(University of Chicago) Researchers revealed new insights into how acute myeloid leukemia (AML) develops and progresses, according to a study published in Molecular Cell on July 20, 2021.

(Tokyo Medical and Dental University) Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have found that immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency leads to disruption of the ileal gut microbiota and increased inflammati...

(University of Queensland) University of Queensland vets are diagnosing the deadly Hendra virus in horses faster than ever, developing a diagnostic point-of-care kit that can detect the pathogen in under an hour, rather ...