Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, CA - July 20, 2021 - In a new University of California, Irvine-led study, ...

FDA approves Octapharma’s Octagam® 10% for adult dermatomyositis

FDA approval based on positive results of international, multi-center ProDERM studyCredit: Octapharma PARAMUS, N.J. - The U.S. Food and Drug ...

Bill Greene, PharmD, of St. Jude receives lifetime achievement award

William L. "Bill" Greene, PharmD, chief pharmaceutical officer, to receive the 2021 Shelby Rhinehart Public Service Lifetime Achievement Award.Credit: St. ...

Take your best shot: Which SARS-CoV-2 vaccine should I get, if any?

University of Cincinnati physician-researcher uses computerized decision model to provide evidence that being vaccinated is better than notCredit: Colleen Kelley/University ...

WVU-led team, through NIH grant, ramps up COVID-19 testing in rural West Virginia

For the past seven months, the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute has helped add to COVID-19 testing throughout ...

Brain ‘noise’ keeps nerve connections young

Credit: © Laboratory of Neural Genetics and Disease / EPFL Neurons communicate through rapid electrical signals that regulate the release ...

NIH award to study molecule’s role in healthy brain development

Credit: Virginia Tech Raymundo Hernandez was always drawn to psychology - that is, until he took his first neurobiology class ...

Virginia Tech scientists uncover how a molecule improves appearance of surgery scars

Researchers find clues about how molecule improves appearance of scarsCredit: (Gourdie Lab /Virginia Tech) Surgical scars treated with a molecule ...

Bleak cyborg future from brain-computer interfaces if we’re not careful

Researchers warn of the potential social, ethical, and legal consequences of technologies interacting heavily with human brains.Credit: Portillo-Lara et al. ...

SARS-CoV-2 spike mutation L452R evades human immune response and enhances infectivity

Credit: Dr. Chihiro Motozono An international team of researchers led by Kumamoto and Tokyo Universities (Japan) have shown that the ...

Revealing the secrets of cell competition

Credit: Ana Lima / Imperial College London As multicellular life relies on cell-cell interactions, it is not surprising that this ...

No horsing around: super-fast Hendra test developed

Credit: The University of Queensland University of Queensland vets are diagnosing the deadly Hendra virus in horses faster than ever, ...

Copper transporter potential new treatment target for cardiovascular disease

Credit: Michael Holahan, Augusta University An internal transporter that enables us to use the copper we consume in foods like ...

USC study shows male-female differences in immune cell function

Credit: Ryan Lu A new USC study of a common, yet poorly understood type of white blood cell reveals the ...

Of lives and life years: 1918 influenza vs COVID-19

Next time, vaccination may be too little, too lateCredit: CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases, January 2006 From the onset of the ...

RNA modification may protect against liver disease

May also explain liver fat differences among men & womenCredit: Sallam Lab/UCLA FINDINGS A chemical modification that occurs in some ...

A breath of fresh air for emphysema research

Credit: Department of Immune Regulation,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes illness and death worldwide. It is ...

Freeze drying, oral health experiments make speedy return from space station aboard SpaceX Dragon

A suite of International Space Station scientific experiments journey back to Earth aboard the 22nd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission ...

Firefighters found to have persistent lung damage from Fort McMurray wildfire

Risk of developing asthma is more than doubled, says University of Alberta occupational health researcher who used the same parameters ...

NSF grant to advance research in cancer treatment