Health

September 20, 2025

1/3 of parents in 3 states may not send children to school because of COVID-19

Parents in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois varied in their support for risk-reduction measures like random COVID-19 testing and face mask...

Brazilian startup seeks to develop a wholly indigenous COVID-19 diagnostic test

The project is supported by FAPESP's Innovative Research in Small Business Program. The firm plans to produce ELISA kits that...

Early-onset colorectal cancer study in young adult men reveals ‘hotspots’ of death in US

Credit: Rogers et al. American Journal of Cancer Research SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Over the last three decades, colorectal...

Children more resilient against coronavirus, study reveals

Texas team reviews 131 studies of children from 26 countriesCredit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO - The majority of...

Rapid genomic profiling of colon cancers can improve therapy selection for patients

Multicenter study led by Dartmouth's and Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center shows vastly improved turnaround time to get results from...

FCC grant to expand UVA Health’s COVID-19 telehealth care

More than $750,000 to support remote patient monitoring, virtual urgent careCredit: UVA Health The Federal Communications Commission awarded UVA Health...

Traffic density, wind and air stratification influence concentrations of air pollutant NO2

Leipzig researchers use a calculation method to remove weather influences from air pollution dataCredit: Burkhard Lehmann, LfULG Leipzig/Dresden. In connection...

Nationwide EMS calls have dropped 26% since the start of the pandemic

Key signaling pathway in the pathogenesis of Paget’s disease identified

New study finds use of topical cream can alleviate skin symptomsCredit: UCI School of Biological Sciences Irvine, Calif., June. 25,...

Marine training may take more mental than physical grit

Keck Medicine of USC study identifies psychological measures that may predict who is more likely to complete - or quit...

nTIDE June 2020 COVID update: Numbers improve for workers with and without disabilities

Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE COVID update -- featuring economist Andrew Houtenville, PhD, and disability employment expert...

Researchers study effects of COVID-19 on caregivers of people with ADRD

Credit: Northern Arizona University Sixteen million family members in the U.S. are caregivers for the more than 6 million people...

Scientists devise new ‘bar code’ method to identify critical cell types in the brain

Credit: Valdez Lab / Center for Translational Neuroscience / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While the brain is composed of...

Study reveals key finding about microbiome of anticancer compound-producing marine invertebrate

Credit: Bill Baker, USF Could the cure for melanoma - the most dangerous type of skin cancer - be a...

New study looks at post-COVID-19 emerging disease in children

Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. (June 24, 2020) - In recent weeks, a multisystem hyperinflammatory condition...

Race, rurality play prominently in Georgia areas hardest hit by COVID-19

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University While counties in populous metropolitan Atlanta had the highest number of COVID-19 cases...

Entos Pharmaceuticals announces selection of lead DNA vaccine candidates for COVID-19

Entos Pharmaceuticals announces selection of lead DNA vaccine candidates for COVID-19 and a $4.2 million award to move forward with...

Novel radiotracer advantageous for imaging of neuroendocrine tumor patients

Imaging excellence shown in patients with liver-dominant diseaseCredit: Images created by Wenjia Zhu and Li Huo, et al., Peking Union...

Researchers discover improved treatment for children with sickle cell anemia

Study in New England Journal of Medicine has global implicationsCredit: IU School of Medicine A team of international researchers has...

New sensor may soon test for coronavirus and flu simultaneously