Tag: Medicine/Health

American Journal of Preventive Medicine focus on critical public health aspects of COVID-19Credit: American Journal of Preventive Medicine Ann Arbor, ...

Janggu makes deep learning a breeze

Credit: Felix Petermann, MDC Researchers from the MDC have developed a new tool that makes it easier to maximize the ...

Drug linked to 45% lower risk of dying among COVID-19 patients on ventilators

Patients who received single intravenous dose of tocilizumab were also more likely to leave the hospital or be off ventilator ...

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 ...

NUS researchers develop novel COVID-19 swabs to address global and local shortage

Credit: National University of Singapore Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there has been a global surge in demand for nasopharyngeal ...

Gut microbiota provide clues for treating diabetes

Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg The individual mix of microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract provides vital clues as to ...

Cystic fibrosis: why so many respiratory complications?

By demonstrating the key role of Vav3 protein, UNIGE researchers highlight how the protein Vav3 creates bacterial docking stations to ...

Racial disparities in COVID-19 are clear; better data, more targeted action needed

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Marked racial disparities exist in confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, investigators say, and ...

BU researchers: ‘Gun culture 3.0’ is missing link to understand US gun culture

Leading firearm violence prevention researchers are first to use data to show differences in gun culture across the country, identifying ...

Is what I see, what I imagine? Study finds neural overlap between vision and imagination

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina find link between mental imagery and vision using artificial intelligence and human ...

UC Riverside postdoc receives NIH Pathway to Independence grant

Rebekah Charney's research aims to shed light on the mechanisms underlying Mowat-Wilson syndromeCredit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Rebekah Charney, ...

Health disparities published in new volume

Researchers at the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina lead health disparity research studiesCredit: MUSC HCC ...

Study pinpoints brain cells that trigger sugar cravings and consumption

Credit: Matthew Potthoff, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine New research has identified the specific brain cells that control ...

GE Healthcare chooses UH to clinically evaluate first-of-its-kind imaging system

Artificial intelligence identifies collapsed lungs, alerts radiologistsCredit: Courtesy: General Electric Healthcare. CLEVELAND -- GE Healthcare (GEHC) chose University Hospitals (UH) ...

Age-related features of facial anatomy for increase safety during plastic surgery

Credit: Victor Gombolevskiy et al. / Aesthetic Surgery Journal 2020 Researchers from the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine together with ...

Building surge ICU capacity during COVID-19

Medical University of South Carolina team is one of nine chosen by U.S. Army to build a prototype for increasing ...

Fat cell hormone boosts potential of stem cell therapy

A team of researchers led by Osaka University find that adiponectin, a hormone derived from fat cells, improves the efficacy ...

Basel study: Why lopinavir and hydroxychloroquine do not work on COVID-19

Credit: University Hospital Basel, Fabian Fiechter Lopinavir is a drug against HIV, hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria and rheumatism. ...

New biomarker for dementia diagnosis

Promising results warrants further investigationCredit: Flinders University Medical researchers in the UK and Australia have identified a new marker which ...

Sobering reminder about liver disease