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July 14, 2026

Evaluating grip strength to identify early diabetes

April 6, 2020

Healthcare practitioners can use assessment of normalized grip strength to routinely screen for type 2 diabetes in apparently healthy adults,...

Suffering from skin damage from face masks?

Award-winning skin infection expert offers remedies to healCredit: Andrea Piacquadio via Pexels.com DOCTORS and nurses on the COVID-19 frontline are...

UMass Amherst engineers, nurses design low-cost face shield PPE for health care

Protective plastic face shields can be mass-produced quickly by existing manufacturersCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In just under two...

A direct protein-to-protein binding couples cell survival to cell proliferation

This discovery has implications in cancer, stem cell growth, and blood or neuron progenitor cell speciationCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -...

New study identifies characteristics of patients with fatal COVID-19

Credit: ATS April 03, 2020-- In a new study, researchers identified the most common characteristics of 85 COVID-19 patients who...

Wearing surgical masks in public could help slow COVID-19 pandemic’s advance

University of Maryland and Hong Kong University study shows masks may limit the spread diseases including influenza, rhinoviruses and coronavirusesCredit:...

nTIDE Mar 2020: COVID-19 effects not yet seen in jobs data for Americans with disabilities

National Trends in Disability Employment -- Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation & University of New Hampshire IOD -...

Tissue dynamics provide clues to human disease

EMBL scientists examine the molecular causes of a rare hereditary disease of the spine and ribsCredit: Ebisuya group/EMBL Segmentation clock...

Researchers map mechanism to explain role of gene mutations in kidney disease

Study could pave the way for future targeted treatments for kidney diseaseCredit: University of Maryland School of Medicine Researchers from...

Rice University emergency ventilator plans now online

ApolloBVM, an open-source bag valve mask automation device, could help patients in treatment for COVID-19Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -...

Coronavirus: Virological findings from patients treated in a Munich hospital

Comprehensive research data now published in NatureCredit: Photo: Müller/Charité In early February, research teams from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, München...

Clues to COVID-19 coronavirus’s vulnerability emerge from an antibody against SARS

A Scripps Research study reveals a likely site of vulnerability on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.Credit: Meng Yuan and Nicholas Wu LA...

First SARS-CoV-2 genomes in Austria openly available

Credit: Bobby Rajesh Malhotra / CeMM The COVID-19 outbreak caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was declared a pandemic by the...

Rapid infectious disease shifts in Chinese children and adolescents prior to COVID-19

Credit: Marisa Estivill Deaths of children and adolescents in China due to infectious diseases were becoming rare prior to the...

Researchers develop a computer simulator that recreates the spread of COVID-19 in Europe

Credit: UC3M A team of Spanish researchers have designed and validated a simulator to enable study of the evolution of...

New molecular mechanism that regulates the sentinel cells of the immune system

CNIC's study suggests that it may be possible to regulate the number and activity of these macrophages with drugs that...

Study shows ICU patients with low-risk penicillin allergies can be tested and treated

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Many patients previously diagnosed with a penicillin allergy can have their allergy label removed after...

Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues

'There is hope for this horrible pandemic,' says UBC scientist Dr. Josef PenningerCredit: IMBA/Tibor Kulcsar An international team led by...

Trial drug may block early stages of COVID-19, study in human cells shows

Credit: Bildmakarna A drug already tested against lung disease could potentially inhibit COVID-19 by reducing the coronavirus load that enters...

Single mutation leads to big effects in autism-related gene