Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University Scientists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have developed a novel technique that can produce ...

COVID-19 prevention trial opens for high-risk healthcare workers

The first gold standard Australian clinical trial to determine whether the drug hydroxychloroquine can prevent COVID-19 is now open.Credit: The ...

NEJM Group releases COVID-19 Rx for interactive learning

Credit: NEJM Group NEJM Group today released Covid-19 Rx: Treatment Simulations, a series of five Covid-19 interactive cases that range ...

Mount Sinai first in US using artificial intelligence to analyze COVID-19 patients

Credit: BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai researchers are ...

Good news for menopausal women taking hop supplements: Tests show no drug interactions

Credit: Photo courtesy Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Hop-based dietary supplements that many women use to ease the night ...

First-in-class drug candidate developed through NFCR funding commences phase IIB clinical trials

Three decades of NFCR basic and translational research funding to primary investigator Dr. Yung-Chi Cheng advances new systems biology paradigm ...

Location, location, location: The cell membrane facilitates RAS protein interactions

Salk scientists uncover how RAS proteins bind and get destroyed, which may improve cancer therapeuticsCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(May 18, ...

CUNY SPH weekly COVID-19 survey update week 10

Before the economy reopens, New Yorkers need more testing and assurances of safety in the workplaceCredit: CUNY SPH In the ...

USC’s Mark Humayun wins IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology

Credit: USC Roski Eye Institute Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, director of the USC Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Institute for ...

Pregnant and lactating women with COVID-19: Scant clinical research

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 18, 2020--Pregnant and breastfeeding women have been excluded from clinical ...

Smoking increases SARS-CoV-2 receptors in the lung

Credit: CSHL New research from CSHL scientists suggests that cigarette smoke spurs the lungs to make more ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme ...

Northern Italy — Official COVID-19 deaths underestimate the full impact of the pandemic

Credit: Image: Piccininni & Gutwasser / Charité According to a study by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the northern Italian city ...

Cancer researchers locate drivers of tumor resistance

Credit: UT Health San Antonio Cancer biologists at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, ...

A new brick in the wall: Bacterial cell wall intermediate found

Credit: Sara Hernandez An accumulation of an unexpected intermediate of the peptidoglycan recycling pathway that is able to modulate the ...

Scientists identify promising immunotherapy combination for pediatric brain cancer

Sanford Burnham Prebys researchers find drug that removes the 'invisibility cloak' from medulloblastomaCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute LA ...

Machine that oxygenates blood may help critically ill COVID-19 patients, according to WVU study

Credit: West Virginia University When COVID-19 patients are critically ill, the biggest threat to their lives is lung dysfunction. If ...

Liver cancer: Awareness of hepatitis D must be raised

Credit: DR Of all the hepatitis viruses, D is the most poorly known. This small virus, which can only infect ...

COVID-19: Lessons to learn about the first 4.0 pandemic

A conjunction of biological and social factorsCredit: Jordi Serra-Cobo (UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-IRBio) Although the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak was officially presented suddenly ...

Global study to test malaria drug to protect health workers from COVID-19

COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator to fund international trial of chloroquineCredit: Erin Jones/Barnes-Jewish Hospital With $9 million in philanthropic support, an international ...

New study sheds light on IBD patients with COVID