Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Department of Pediatrics and Developmental Biology,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Primary immunodeficiencies, such as severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID), occur ...

Revolutionary mosquito researchers receive $2.7 million grant

Credit: Virginia Tech Mosquitoes may be small, but they are a formidable foe. Not only can they smell over 400 ...

How micro-circuits in the brain regulate fear

Credit: Rob Hurt / Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Fear is an important reaction that warns and protects us from danger. ...

Wildfire smoke exposure linked to increased risk of contracting COVID-19

New study finds a 17.7 percent rise in COVID-19 cases after a prolonged 2020 wildfire smoke event in Reno, Nev.Credit: ...

UTA named inaugural winner of national racial justice, equity award

Coalition of Urban Serving Universities honors UTA's Latino health literacy campaignCredit: Erika Suarez/UTA Aiming to address racial injustice and inequity ...

Routine screening for BI-RADS lesions on automated whole-breast ultrasound

Return to routine screening for BI-RADS 3 lesions on supplemental automated whole-breast ultrasound substantially reduces the recall rate, while being ...

Hopkins Med news update

Credit: Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine COVID-19 NEWS: CAN DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS HELP THE IMMUNE SYSTEM FIGHT CORONAVIRUS INFECTION? Media Contact: Patrick ...

Engineers find imaging technique could become treatment for deep vein thrombosis

Credit: Penn State/Scott Medina Penn State College of Engineering researchers set out to develop technology capable of localizing and imaging ...

On the front lines: Correctional nurses and the COVID-19 pandemic

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 14, 2021-Firsthand reports from nurses in correctional facilities detail the ...

Launch of UNITE4TB partnership marks a new era in Tuberculosis treatment development

The partnership will accelerate the development of new Tuberculosis (TB) drug regimens as part of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), ...

Autophagy may be the key to finding treatments for early Huntington’s disease

Autophagy disruption may be at the root of early cognitive changes in Huntington's disease and is a potential target for ...

Tracking COVID-19 across Europe

Credit: A. Naqvi (2021) According to the World Health Organization, a third wave of COVID infections is now all but ...

Looking beyond the numbers to see pandemic’s effect on nursing home residents

Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Nursing homes throughout the United States have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic with many ...

Researcher creates cell lines to help treat mitochondrial diseases in children

Credit: Virginia Tech The mitochondrion has garnered quite the reputation for its role as the "powerhouse of the cell." These ...

The cells combating a deadly lung disease

A subset of fibroblasts located in small foci of tissue on the edges of extensive scarring produce a protein that ...

Study IDs risk factors for irregular heartbeats in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients

Credit: UVA Health New research will help doctors identify, treat and prevent potentially dangerous irregular heartbeats in patients with hypertrophic ...

A rapid method to quantify antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

Credit: Keine Nishiyama, et al. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. June 5, 2021 Scientists have developed a rapid, highly accurate test to ...

A new avenue for fighting drug-resistant bacteria

Targeting an RNA sequence in pathogenic bacteria could make them more sensitive to antibioticsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) A small regulatory ...

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi receives Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research

Presented by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)Credit: image courtesy of UW Medicine New York, NY - The American ...

Role of subnuclear NSrp70 in immunity-studied at Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology