Medicine & Health

Black workers 50% more likely to stay in unwanted jobs than white workersCredit: West Health-Gallup Survey, March 2021 WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 6, 2021 - One out of every six adult workers (16%) in the United States are staying in jobs…

Credit: University of Bath (UK). A revolutionary assistive technology being developed by GP Dr Nick Gompertz with a team of researchers at the University of Bath hopes to offer people with conditions such as Motor Neurone…

New study shows more pharmacy medication access services available at some hospitals According to a new study published in the journal Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing…

PHILADELPHIA-- It turns out that not all build-ups of tau protein are bad, and a team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania developed a method to show that. Using mammalian cell models, the…

Study published in JAMA CardiologyCredit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine A new mutation found in a gene associated with an increased risk of atrial fibrillation poses a significantly increased risk for heart failure in Black people. The…

ResBiotic Inc. will use the money to develop and commercialize groundbreaking probiotic formulations for lung health.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A biomedical research company founded by a University of Alabama at Birmingham…

University of Ottawa study finds nearly two-thirds of Black individuals in Canada suffer severe depressive symptoms with women worse affectedCredit: The University of Ottawa The first mental health study of Black communities in…

Knowledge of the specific flagellins that drive the pathogenic immune response in Crohn's disease is a step toward a potential preventive treatmentCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Last year, Charles O. Elson, M.D., demonstrated a…

The Gerontological Society of America's highly cited, peer-reviewed journals are continuing to publish scientific articles on COVID-19. The following were published between March 17 and April 19; all are free to access: Older Adults'…

Credit: University of Exeter Medical School, U.K. OKLAHOMA CITY - Andrew T. Hattersley, DBE, FMedSci, FRS, has been named the recipient of the 2021 Harold Hamm International Prize for Biomedical Research in Diabetes. Hattersley,…

A new service piloted at Penn Medicine allowed a proportion of patients to avoid hospitalization by providing them with greater support after visiting the emergency department. The vast majority of the patients enrolled in the service -…

A research team led by Göttingen University find novel switch in proteins with wide-ranging implications for medical treatmentsCredit: K Tittmann Proteins perform a vast array of functions in the cell of every living…

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have shown the potential of repurposing an existing and cheap drug into a long-acting injectable therapy that could be used to treat Covid-19. In a paper published in the journal Nanoscale,…

Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this editorial the authors Hui Liu and Juan Chen from Shanxi Eye Hospital, Taiyuan, China discuss biophotonics in photomedicine. As a cross-disciplinary field,…

NIH-funded advance could alert physicians to increased need for fetal monitoring, early delivery WHAT: A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health has developed a new ultrasound technique to monitor the placenta for…

Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, May 5, 2021 - Despite decades of research and investment, the genetic underpinnings of Alzheimer's disease are still largely unknown, stymieing drug development and early diagnosis…

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL (University College London) have found that mice can sense extremely fast and subtle changes in the structure of odours and use this to guide their behaviour. The findings, published in…

Karamyan: Three peptides could be causing severe COVID-19 complicationsCredit: TTUHSC A study published in July 2020 hypothesized a link between the presence of bradykinin, a well-known peptide, and severe cases of COVID-19. Vardan…

Credit: University of Tartu In about a quarter of patients with hereditary diseases, the cause of the disease remains unclear even after extensive genetic testing. One reason is that we still do not know enough about the function…

New paper clarifies important characteristics of the emerging category of postbiotics, making it clear how they differ from probiotics The idea of deriving health benefits from live microorganisms is well known, but some non-living…