Health care leaders call for national focus on preventing hospital-acquired pneumonia
UMass Amherst researcher among task force leaders pushing for changeCredit: UMass Amherst A group of health care leaders, including a ...
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Gene profile in blood predicts risk of poor outcomes, death for patients with COVID-19
A previously validated blood gene profile that predicts idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis mortality was repurposed to assess the likelihood of COVID-19 ...
Immune system protein may defend against deadly intestinal disease in babies
Findings may lead to new therapies for necrotizing enterocolitisCredit: Matt Miller/Washington University The intestinal disease necrotizing enterocolitis is a leading ...
Blood cancer patients with COVID-19 fare better with convalescent plasma
Retrospective study also indicates outcomes of critically ill patients in ICU improve when given antibodies from recovered COVID-19 patientsCredit: Matt ...
Researchers identify why COVID-19 patients develop life-threatening clots
New insights could lead to new therapies for COVID-19Credit: RCSI DUBLIN, June 15, 2021 - Scientists have identified how and ...
Newborns on ventilators can now be better protected from a common breathing tube incident
After 30 years of development, a medical device designed to continuously monitor the airways of the tiniest ventilated patients could ...
New defence against superbugs
Taking fish oil may reduce antibiotic resistanceCredit: Flinders University For the first time, Australian scientists have confirmed a link between ...
Highlights from the journal CHEST®, June 2021
Credit: The Journal CHEST® Published monthly, the journal CHEST® features peer-reviewed, cutting-edge original research in chest medicine: Pulmonary, critical care, ...
New AI tool invented by NTU, NP and NHCS scientists could speed up diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases
Credit: Credit to NTU Singapore A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore ...
Christopher Chesley, MD, is the 2021 ATS Fellowship in Health Equality award winner
Credit: ATS June 08, 2021 - Christopher Chesley, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania has been named the 2021 ATS ...
Important to reduce patients’ time respiratory intensive care with mechanical ventilation
Credit: Photo: private More active efforts to reduce patients' time on a ventilator in an ICU can both spare their ...
Target protein identified for improving heart attack treatment
Credit: Photo by Cori Kogan, WSU Health Sciences Spokane A new study led by researchers at Washington State University has ...
Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare awarded to immigrant cofounders of pre-health dreamers
The Vilcek Foundation and The Arnold P. Gold Foundation have announced Dr. Jirayut 'New' Latthivongskorn and Dr. Denisse Rojas Marquez ...
Malaria parasite’s partiality for the spleen
Credit: Woodford J, Gillman A, Jenvey P, Roberts J, Woolley S, Barber BE, et al. (2021) Positron emission tomography and ...