Cloth face masks that can be disinfected by the sun
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c15540 During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have become accustomed ...
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CHEST Foundation/ATS award first research grant in COVID and Diversity
Credit: ATS Nov. 11, 2020 - Peter Jackson, MD, of Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named the first recipient of ...
Vitamin C’s effectiveness against COVID may hinge on vitamin’s natural transporter levels
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Production Coordinator, Augusta University High doses of vitamin C under study for treating COVID-19 may benefit some ...
LSU Health New Orleans fellow LA’s 1st NIH Outstanding Scholar
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Khanh Do, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at LSU Health New Orleans ...
COVID Misinformation a Roadblock to Curbing Pandemic
Doctors are key in communicating facts to patientsCredit: Photo by Elizabeth Adams The World Health Organization calls the spread of ...
NYUAD researchers develop protocol for a more accurate COVID-19 testing technique
Cost-effective technique can detect lower viral loads and reduce false-negative ratesCredit: NYUAD Abu Dhabi - One critical barrier in efforts ...
$1 million to support manufacturing of COVID-19 treatments, vaccines at uOttawa, Ottawa Hospital
Credit: University of Ottawa Researchers from the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital have been awarded $1,050,000 million from ...
Regenstrief, Indiana CTSI, Datavant partner on NIH national COVID-19 data effort
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Regenstrief Institute, Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) and Datavant are supporting the National ...
WEHI joins forces with World Health Organisation to combat anaemia
Credit: WEHI, Australia The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated Australian medical research institute WEHI as the WHO Collaborating Centre ...
Ultrasound-guided percutaneous needle biopsy excellent for small pleural lesions diagnosis
US-guided PCPNB is highly likely to be diagnostic for small pleural lesions with nodular morphology on CT or US, or ...
nTIDE October 2020 Jobs Report: Job numbers hold steady for Americans with disabilities
Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Report--featuring Job Path, a New York City based nonprofit that taps multiple ...
LSU health team wins Best 2020 Radiology Image award
Credit: Schachner & Spieler - LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - AuntMinnie.com awarded Bradley Spieler, MD, Vice Chairman ...
Vaccine shows promise against herpes virus
New study demonstrates candidate's potential to generate antibodies, limit viral sheddingCredit: Craig Chandler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln A genetically edited form ...
USask researchers find face masks don’t hinder breathing during exercise
Credit: John Ko SASKATOON - A new University of Saskatchewan (USask) study has found that exercise performance and blood and ...
Tokyo’s voluntary standstill may have stopped COVID-19 in its tracks
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo - Why did Japan largely contain COVID-19 despite famously jam-packed ...
For quick COVID-19 testing, iSCAN can
Credit: © 2020 Ali et al. A simple COVID-19 test kit combines virus amplification with a CRISPR-Cas system for effective ...
Social media can guide public pandemic policy: QUT research
Social media analytics now a valuable tool in understanding the thoughts and actions of the public during a pandemicCredit: QUT ...
Prejudice, poverty, gender – illustrations show the reality of living with disease
Community-based research programme leads to innovative 'cartoons'Credit: Sightsavers Illustrations by a local artist in Nigeria are helping health workers and ...
Physician advocates screening teen emergency room patients for sexually transmitted infections
University of Cincinnati researcher says it will help combat future health complicationsCredit: Photo by Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati. A University ...
Scientists find Ebola virus antibodies in people before 2018 DRC outbreak
Exposure to Ebola viruses may be more frequent and widespread than previously thoughtCredit: Tracey Goldstein/UC Davis Scientists found antibodies to ...
