Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Feb. 5, 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic is having a detrimental impact on ...

Link found between time perception, risk for developmental coordination disorder

Credit: Auditory Development Lab, McMaster University Neuroscientists at McMaster University have found a link between children who are at risk ...

Novel immunotherapy approach to treat cat allergy

High levels of adjuvant molecule found to boost immune tolerance to major cat allergen and mitigate allergy symptomsCredit: Copyright: LIH ...

Raised mortality from cardiac arrest in people with COVID-19

Credit: Photo by Charlotta Sjostedt Sudden cardiac arrest is more often fatal in people with COVID-19, a new study shows. ...

Chinese scientists use knowledge from climate system modeling to develop a global prediction system for the COVID-19 pandemic

Credit: Chuwei Liu At the time of writing, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is seriously threatening human lives and health throughout ...

Biosensors to detect P. jirovecii, responsible for Pneumocystis pneumonia

This project has detected this atypical fungus, responsible for very serious pneumonia in immunosuppressed patientsCredit: Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla ...

Anticancer drug may improve outcome for severe COVID-19 patients

Credit: Ulf Sirborn Treating severe COVID-19 patients with the anticancer drug bevacizumab may reduce mortality and speed up recovery, according ...

Severely frail individuals with COVID-19 are three times more likely to die, study finds

Credit: University of Birmingham New research led by the University of Birmingham has revealed for the first time the extent ...

People infected with COVID-19 have a higher risk of dying after a cardiac arrest

Women are nine times more likely to dieCredit: European Heart Journal COVID-19 patients who suffer a cardiac arrest either in ...

New test provides fast and accurate diagnosis of liposarcomas

Emerging technologies harnessed to develop a faster, cheaper, and more accurate test for these hard-to-diagnose tumors, researchers report in The ...

U.S. Air Force Academy intervention reduces unwanted sexual contact by over 40 percent

Study led by George Mason University College of Health and Human Services faculty finds that prevention program effectively reduces unwanted ...

Vaithianathan receives $1.9 million grant for retinal research

Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (February 4, 2021) - Thirumalini Vaithianathan, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science, ...

Best of both worlds: A hybrid method for tracking laparoscopic ultrasound transducers

Combined hardware- and computer vision-based strategy will help improve laparoscopic ultrasound imagingCredit: Liu, Plishker, and Shekhar, doi 10.1117/1.JMI.8.1.015001 Laparoscopic surgery, ...

School gardens linked with kids eating more vegetables

Credit: The University of Texas at Austin Getting children to eat their vegetables can seem like an insurmountable task, but ...

Mast cells: Sentinels and high-speed messengers of the immune defense

A team of scientists from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg unravels a crucial mechanism of cell-cell-communication during the defense against pathogensCredit: ...

Why banana candy doesn’t taste like banana (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2020 -- Have you ever eaten a Laffy Taffy and thought, "Wow, ...

New combination therapy offers chance of healing hepatitis B

Credit: CDC/Dr. Erskine Palmer The new therapeutic approach is based on shutting down the viral hepatitis B genome located in ...

COVID-19 vaccine from new vaccine platform effective in mice

Credit: John Sennett. It is necessary to develop additional COVID-19 vaccines, as different vaccine approaches have their advantages and disadvantages ...

SARS-CoV-2 under the helium ion microscope for the first time

Bielefeld researchers provide 3D images of coronavirusesCredit: Photo left: Bielefeld University/M.-D. Müller, photo right: Thomas Popien Scientists at Bielefeld University's ...

Student awarded NIH Fellowship to examine balance, walking in children with cerebral palsy