Medicine/Health

Experts identify five key factors for strategies to ease lockdown restrictions -- knowledge of infection levels, community engagement, public health capacity, health system capacity, and border control measures Experts identify five key…

Sophia Antipolis, 25 September 2020: Short-term hydroxychloroquine treatment is not associated with lethal heart rhythms in patients with COVID-19 who are risk assessed prior to receiving the drug. That's the finding of research…

The study, conducted prior to COVID-19, has broad potential for pandemic responses DURHAM, N.C. - A team of Duke Health scientists have identified biomarkers that accurately identify numerous viral infections across the clinical stages of…

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…

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…

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…

Sufferers who are sensitive to the carrot allergen should generally avoid eating carrotsCredit: Photo: Christian Wißler. The consumption of raw carrots triggers allergic reactions in many people. Contrary to popular belief, cooked…

Understanding how viruses invade host cell protein-making machineryCredit: Stasevich Lab/Colorado State University Infectious viruses come in many shapes and sizes and use slightly different attack mechanisms to make humans and animals…

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…

University of Alberta cardiology team uses cutting-edge techniques to profile individual cells and genes in six regions of the heartCredit: Ryan O'Byrne Scientists have for the first time documented all of the different cell types…

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…

Available via royalty-free license agreementCredit: Courtesy NSWC-Crane A federal research facility in Crane, Indiana, has developed a temperature scanning sensor system and software to help contain the coronavirus. The U.S. Naval…

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…