A dual antenatal therapy benefits extreme preterm babies better than either alone or none
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Penn to co-lead $6.5 million transatlantic grant to investigate the role of the immune system in health
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Women, newborns, young children and adolescents lose 20 percent of health and social services to COVID-19
'COVID-19 is making a bad situation worse'Credit: Source: iapewec Women, newborns, young children and adolescents are losing 20 percent of ...
Building surge ICU capacity during COVID-19
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Sobering reminder about liver disease
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CT of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) versus CT of influenza virus pneumonia
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Intrahospital transport of ICU patients a moment of risk
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Injections are two-and-a-half times safer when nurses use revamped guidelines
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Charcoal a weapon to fight superoxide-induced disease, injury
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American Journal of Roentgenology updates from new editor in chief, Andrew B. Rosenkrantz
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Next-generation sequencing to provide precision medicine for rare metabolic disorders
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FCC grant to expand UVA Health’s COVID-19 telehealth care
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Nationwide EMS calls have dropped 26% since the start of the pandemic
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New study looks at post-COVID-19 emerging disease in children
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Study is first to identify potential therapeutic targets for COVID-19
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First COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa begins
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New article clarifies details of COVID-19 respiratory transmission
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MRI test for football players that could detect CTE, developed by Ben-Gurion U. researcher
Credit: Ben-Gurion University BEER-SHEVA, Israel...June 19, 2020 - Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head injuries ...
Boston partnership leverages local manufacturing to quickly produce reusable face shields
Credit: Dr. James Rathmell Researchers at a major Boston academic medical center designed, fabricated, tested, and implemented a reusable face ...
COVID-19 collaboration reduces infections in long-term care facilities
Credit: UVA Health A collaborative program developed at UVA Health to work with local long-term care facilities control COVID-19 is ...
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