Medicine & Health

Nanoparticles with synthetic DNA can control release of active agentsCredit: Uli Benz / TUM Medications often have unwanted side-effects. One reason is that they reach not only the unhealthy cells for which they are intended, but…

New research from the University of Sydney finds that even low levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy can have an impact on a child's brain development and is associated with greater psychological and behavioural problems in youth…

Researchers have found connections in the brain to dissociative symptomsCredit: McLean Hospital Being traumatized can cause what are known as dissociative symptoms--such as experiencing amnesia, an out-of-body experience, feeling…

Credit: ATS Sept. 22, 2020-- A new Viewpoint piece published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines the ways in which COVID-19 disproportionately impacts historically disadvantaged communities of color in the…

BOSTON - Emergency departments of hospitals generate significant amounts of environmentally harmful waste which could be reduced through basic changes to disposal policies and practices, while producing lower operating costs, researchers…

Because COVID-19 may present with medium to large arterial and venous abdominal and extremity macrothrombi, radiologists should raise concern for COVID-19 when identifying thromboembolic abdominopelvic findingsCredit: American Roentgen Ray…

UC Riverside psychologist Chandra Reynolds will lead the five-year research projectCredit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The National Institute on Aging, or NIA, has awarded psychologists Chandra A. Reynolds of the University of…

BOSTON -Many people are feeling anxious during these uncertain times as they navigate the risks associated with COVID-19 and experience the tension from physical distancing or isolation for what can seem like an eternity. But people of…

BOSTON - One of the of the most important questions in managing a hospital's response to the COVID-19 pandemic is determining when healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 can return to the job. Recently, investigators from Mass General…

NIH Investigator Co-Led International Research EffortCredit: NIAID Integrated Research Facility, Fort Detrick, Maryland. WHAT: New findings by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators help explain why…

Scientist at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing leads work to identify biomarkers in blood that can indicate often-missed minor strokesCredit: none CLEVELAND--An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the Frances Payne Bolton…

In the United States, individual state laws barring 18- to 20-year-olds from buying or possessing a handgun make little difference in the rate of homicides involving a gun by people in that age group, a new University of Washington study…

LJI scientists track down a protein that may add to lung damage in asthma and related diseasesCredit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA--Your lungs and airways need to be stretchy, sort of like balloons. Take a big breath, and…

Brazilian researchers' finding that exercising in the evening reduces blood pressure more than in the morning can help health professionals choose the time of day for aerobic training depending on the type of anti-hypertensive drug they…

Credit: West Virginia University The power of data, often an underappreciated catalyst to fixing the world's pressing problems, was recognized by Dr. Sally Hodder as a critical key in battling COVID-19 before West Virginia even…

BIOCAD becomes an industrial partner of the scientific center and will ensure the mass-scale production of the &laquoSputnik V» vaccineCredit: BIOCAD Clinical trials of the vaccine are currently underway. The &laquoSputnik V» is…

Credit: West Virginia University Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world. The condition causes damage to the optic nerve resulting in slow, painless vision loss over many years. While there is no cure for…

Clinical trial finds that ertugliflozin, an SGLT2 inhibitor for patients with diabetes, demonstrated non-inferiority on the rate of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke compared to placebo A new study led by a cardiologist from…

Understanding of fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), a rare blood vessel disease, is making the jump from the laboratory to the clinic with new findings about a genetic variant. Researchers found the mutation in a gene that is associated…

New technologies help scientists better identify who is lonely and how older men and women differ in how they feel and express isolationCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences For the past couple of decades, there has been a loneliness…