Tested and testing: UC San Diego Health expands COVID-19 diagnostics
Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences From the beginning, the ability of front line clinicians to test patients for COVID-19 ...
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Scientist proposes clinical trials with low-dose rapamycin to protect elderly from COVID-19
Friday, 3rd of April, 2020, London, UK - The Biogerontology Research Foundation, a registered UK charity supporting and promoting aging ...
Lancaster academic sees positives in first published clinical trial of COVID-19 treatment
Credit: Lancaster University A Lancaster University statistician who worked on the first published large randomised clinical trial for a potential ...
Curbing the rising toll of adults with complex care needs
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (April 6, 2020) - Data show that the number of people with clinically complex health and ...
Efforts to control livestock disease PPRV should focus on herd management style, not age
Credit: Rod Waddington/Flickr UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The risk of transmitting the virus PPRV, which produces a highly infectious and ...
Surgical masks good for most COVID-19 treatment: McMaster
Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (April 6, 2020) - The N95 respirator masks should be preserved for health-care workers involved ...
Insect wings hold antimicrobial clues for improved medical implants
Credit: Professor Bo Su, University of Bristol Some insect wings such as cicada and dragonfly possess nanopillar structures that kill ...
The human body as an electrical conductor, a new method of wireless power transfer
Published by Marc Tudela, Laura Becerra-Fajardo, Aracelys García-Moreno, Jesus Minguillon and Antoni Ivorra, in Access, the journal of the Institute ...
Cranfield University helps create new low-cost, simple ventilators for COVID-19 patients
Credit: Georgia Tech A simple, low-cost Bag Valve Mask (BVM) ventilator to help critically-ill COVID-19 patients has been rapidly designed ...
Shorter radiotherapy treatment for bowel cancer patients during COVID-19
Credit: University of Leeds An international panel of cancer experts has recommended a one-week course of radiotherapy and delaying surgery ...
New algorithm aims to protect surgical team members against infection with COVID-19 virus
Journal of American College of Surgeons releases new best practice guideline based on potential viral spread patterns, risks facing health ...
Penn launches trial to evaluate hydroxychloroquine to treat, prevent COVID-19
Study will evaluate therapy for current patients, prophylaxis in health care workersCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A new trial led ...
Alport syndrome severity can be predicted by causative protein genotype
Credit: Assoc. Prof. Tsuyoshi Shuto A Japanese research team has successfully developed a system to predict the severity of Alport ...
Identification of new factors important in maintaining lung function in the elderly
DsbA-L's versatile protective pulmonary function effects revealedLEFT: DsbA-L T/T genotype carriers are considered to have low DsbA-L expression levels which ...
Simple, low-cost ventilator builds on available resuscitation bags
Credit: Steven Norris, Georgia Tech A simple, low-cost ventilator based on the resuscitation bags carried in ambulances - and widely ...
Houston Methodist ramps up plasma therapy as FDA approves clinical trial
Credit: Houston Methodist The FDA's announcement Friday to approve convalescent serum therapy as a large-scale clinical trial opened the door ...
Evaluating grip strength to identify early diabetes
Healthcare practitioners can use assessment of normalized grip strength to routinely screen for type 2 diabetes in apparently healthy adults, ...
Virginia Tech scientists reveal brain tumors impact normally helpful cells
Researchers at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute show far-reaching effects of gliomaCredit: Virginia Tech When the brain gets injured, star-shaped brain ...
Using sponges to wipe out cancer
The natural product manzamine A, derived from Indo-Pacific marine sponges, exhibits anti-cancer properties in a preclinical study, report researchers at ...
Suffering from skin damage from face masks?
Award-winning skin infection expert offers remedies to healCredit: Andrea Piacquadio via Pexels.com DOCTORS and nurses on the COVID-19 frontline are ...
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