Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Influencers on social media have contributed to an uptake of people using cosmetic procedures to enhance their appearance, research suggests.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

30percentStudyEnrollments Download The post WCG Contributed 30% of Study Enrollments While Enabling Timely Participant Data Entry appeared first on WCG.

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Pharma Times

APRIL 23, 2024

Severe acute malnutrition is responsible for nearly half of all child deaths globally and affects 17 million children annually

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 18, 2023

The neurotransmitter serotonin can adversely affect the heart's mitral valve, contributing to a heart disease known as degenerative mitral regurgitation, according to a new multicenter study involving researchers from the Pediatric Heart Valve Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 15, 2021

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 63 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. All 2021 inductees are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers for a range of accomplishments that advance computing as a science and a profession.

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Pharma Times

MARCH 13, 2024

Around 200,000 people in the US are expected to be diagnosed with the skin cancer this year

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APRIL 18, 2023

Eating walnuts on a regular basis could benefit the cognitive development of adolescents and contribute to their psychological maturation.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Experiments conducted in Brazil by researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the University of São Paulo (USP) showed that visceral fat—fat around the liver, intestines and other organs, considered a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and high blood pressure—contributes more to severe COVID-19 than subcutaneous fat (..)

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

By signing with the scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft, Contributions to Entomology – a journal by the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute – becomes the fourth Senckenberg academic title to transfer to the growing portfolio of the open-access scholarly publishing platform ARPHA.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Chronic alcohol consumption may make people more sensitive to pain through two different molecular mechanisms—one driven by alcohol intake and one by alcohol withdrawal. That is one new conclusion by scientists at Scripps Research on the complex links between alcohol and pain.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 11, 2023

In contrast, mortality rates with cancer as a contributing cause were higher in 2020 compared to 2019, reversing the decreasing trend from prior years. The study was published today in the Journal Oncology Practice (JOP).

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Scienmag

AUGUST 7, 2020

Credit: UTHSC Neil Hayes, MD, MS, MPH, division chief of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is among recipients of the 2020 Team Science Awards from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) for his contributions to developing The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a groundbreaking multisite project to (..)

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 21, 2023

For women with multiple sclerosis who report cognitive dysfunction—one of the most common and disabling symptoms of the disease—sleep disorders such as insomnia and sleep apnea may contribute to the perceived decline, a Michigan Medicine study suggests.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 14, 2023

A new analysis of the carbon footprint of products used in the five most common surgical operations carried out in the NHS in England shows that 68% of carbon contributions come from single-use items, such as single-use gowns, patient drapes and instrument table drapes.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

February 25, 2022 – Most patients with sleep problems adopt maladaptive coping strategies – such as taking sleep aids, using caffeine, and taking daytime naps – that may actually contribute to decreased sleep quality, reports a study in The Nurse Practitioner. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Front-line physicians who cared for COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic in New York City and New Orleans reported multiple factors that contributed to their occupational stress during this extraordinarily trying time in their careers.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 24, 2024

GSK, Lundbeck, and ROVI share how their events strategies contribute to higher-value engagement with healthcare professionals (HCPs).

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Scienmag

MAY 18, 2022

Your education, your job, your income, the neighborhood you live in: Together these factors are considered to represent socioeconomic status (SES) and contribute to a variety of health and social outcomes, from physical and mental health to educational achievement and cognitive capacities.

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Scienmag

JULY 16, 2021

A scientific review has found evidence that a disruption in blood clotting and the first line immune system could be contributing factors in the development of psychosis.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 8, 2023

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have identified new genetic risk factors for two types of non-Alzheimer's dementia. These findings were published in Cell Genomics and detail how researchers identified large-scale DNA changes, known as structural variants, by analyzing thousands of DNA samples.

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Scienmag

MARCH 2, 2021

Credit: ACM SIGIR The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) today announced the inception of the SIGIR Academy to honor and recognize individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval (IR).

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Credit: Michigan State University Michigan State University’s searchable database containing millions of records cataloging the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants — Enslaved.org — is launching a second phase that will accept contributions from the public and from academic researchers.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 17, 2023

Postoperative delirium—a sudden, fluctuating and typically reversible disturbance of mental status in patients that occurs after anesthetized surgery—is a common postoperative complication. The causes, progression and biological signatures are largely unknown, however.

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NPR Health - Shots

APRIL 3, 2023

The 2021 numbers from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed earlier estimates showing a 10.5% increase in deaths over 2020. The 43,000 deaths were the highest total since 2005. Image credit: Michael Noble Jr./Tulsa Tulsa World via AP)

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Taking care of your teeth and gums may offer benefits beyond oral health such as improving brain health, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2023. The meeting, to be held in person in Dallas and virtually, Feb.

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CTTI (Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative)

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Before this year draws to a close, we want to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude for the knowledge, ideas and talent you’ve contributed to our work. The post CTTI Thanks Our Amazing Community for its Contributions to Our Work This Year appeared first on CTTI. We are grateful for the ways you push us to work smarter.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

An international collaborative research group consisting of members from 7 institutions has developed a method of determining which amphibious species (types of frog, newt and salamander) inhabit an area. They achieved this by amplifying extra-organismal DNA (environmental DNA) found in the water so that they could be analyzed.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

University of Calgary researchers find diet-induced obesity is linked to a functional change in the brain. The study published in Nature Neuroscience finds that in obese mice there is a reduction in function of the brain's brake signal located in the lateral orbitofrontal cortex.

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Scienmag

MARCH 14, 2022

From the ancient sludge of lakebeds in Asia’s Tibetan Plateau, scientists can decipher a vision of Earth’s future. That future, it turns out, will look very similar to the mid-Pliocene warm period – an epoch 3.3 million to 3 million years ago when the average air temperature at mid-latitudes rarely dropped below freezing.

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BioTech 365

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Hebei Makes Contribution to Stable Supply of Global Anti-Epidemic Medical Supplies Hebei Makes Contribution to Stable Supply of Global Anti-Epidemic Medical Supplies Beijing, China, Dec. 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The demand for epidemic prevention materials has increased again in … Continue reading →

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 6, 2021

SASKATOON – Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) are hopeful new understanding of cellular defects related to Cystic Fibrosis (CF) could help pave the way for treatment of the disease.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A team of international scientists and clinical experts have unravelled a new cell type in human skin that contributes to inflammatory skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis (AD) and psoriasis (PSO). Their study findings were published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine in September 2021.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

MARCH 17, 2024

Similar genetic changes in two different types of brain cells may contribute to cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and aging. US researchers examined gene expression in more than a million brain cells collected post-mortem from 191 donors.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 3, 2023

A treatment to prevent runaway inflammation in patients with severe COVID-19 is a step closer after a University of Queensland-led study into how immune cells respond to the virus.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims antifungal creams and combinations of antifungal treatments with corticosteroids are likely to be contributing to the rise and spread of severe skin, scalp, and nail fungal infections.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 20, 2023

In January 2022, around the time that the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 started spreading rapidly, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) led by Shashank Tripathi, Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, and Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, noticed that there was an unusually high increase (..)

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Scienmag

JULY 6, 2021

Studies reveal unprecedented mechanism behind loss of antibody neutralization against this pandemic coronavirus variant of concern Credit: Young-Jun Park, UW Department of Biochemistry Three mutations in the Epsilon coronavirus spike protein dampen the neutralizing potency of antibodies induced by current vaccines or past COVID infections.

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