Health
World Innovation Summit for Health announces 2024 Global Healthcare Innovation Competition at Web Summit
5 March 2024. Doha, Qatar: Web Summit Qatar 2024 provided the stage for the announcement of the World Innovation Summit...
Wild bees develop tolerance to veterinary drugs
Stingless bees in the Colombian Andes are adapting to a derivative of the ubiquitous insecticide ivermectin, which the bees ingest...
Major neurotech hub in Milan announced
The IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University announced the launch of a long-term partnership with the...
Researchers closing in on genetic treatments for hereditary lung disease, vision loss
PORTLAND, Ore. – Researchers who work with tiny drug carriers known as lipid nanoparticles have developed a new type of...
Proceed with caution – the meteoric rise of zero-alcohol drinks
New research from Flinders University has revealed that parents are feeling conflicted, confused and concerned when it comes to zero-alcohol...
University of Houston engineer Metin Akay featured in study highlighting 50 scientists’ contributions to biomedical engineering advancements
Metin Akay, founding chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Houston and John S. Dunn Professor, is...
New AI smartphone tool accurately diagnoses ear infections
A new cellphone app developed by physician-scientists at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to...
New antibodies target “dark side” of influenza virus protein
WHAT: Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have identified antibodies targeting a hard-to-spot region of the influenza virus, shedding...
A protective human monoclonal antibody targeting a conserved site of spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has caused serious damage to public health and the global economy, and one...
Precision pulmonary medicine: Penn engineers target lung disease with lipid nanoparticles
Penn Engineers have developed a new means of targeting the lungs with lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the miniscule capsules used by...
Discovery of proteins associated with the progression of dialysis-related amyloidosis
Niigata, Japan –Dialysis patients often develop dialysis-related amyloidosis and exhibit bone and joint disorders that impair their activity of daily...
Remote height and weight measurements for children proven as accurate as in-person
BATON ROUGE – The increased popularity of telehealth and telemedicine in recent years has provided a new level of accessibility...
Wildfire smoke disproportionately affects California’s Indigenous communities, new research shows
Researchers using a novel method of measuring long-term wildfire smoke exposure have found that Indigenous communities in California are exposed...
Scientists identify new ‘regulatory’ function of learning and memory gene common to all mammalian brain cells
Johns Hopkins Medicine neuroscientists say they have found a new function for the SYNGAP1 gene, a DNA sequence that controls...
MSU co-authored study: 10 insights to reduce vaccine hesitancy on social media
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Effective population level vaccination campaigns are fundamental to public health. Countercampaigns, which are as old as...
New study: Deforestation exacerbates risk of malaria for most vulnerable children
Malaria kills more than 600,000 people each year worldwide, and two thirds are children under age five in sub-Saharan Africa....
$265K awarded to NJIT researchers via New Jersey Health Foundation grants
Six NJIT researchers have secured grants in the latest round of funding provided by the New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF),...
Urgent need for guidelines for the care of child victims of sexual abuse
Only half of 34 surveyed European countries have national guidelines on how to provide clinical care and treatment to children...
Faster and simpler point-of-care malaria test developed by Rice researchers
Rice University researchers have developed a rapid, accurate test for diagnosing malaria that is significantly faster and easier to use...
Investigating cell killers: Advanced system for size-dependent cytotoxicity analysis of silica
Metal nanomaterials have become an indispensable part of industrial and medical fields due to their unique and versatile properties. Their...