Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Counting steps? Here's how many you need to boost health
Taking that often-cited 10,000 steps a day—or even slightly fewer—may indeed be enough to improve your health, a new study suggests.
Oct 17, 2022
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Nature Medicine
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 survivors might need just one dose of two-part vaccine
A single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for individuals who previously had COVID-19 generates an immunologic response similar to that of individuals receiving the two-dose recommended sequence, according to a Cedars-Sinai ...
Apr 2, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The surprising origin of a deadly hospital infection
Hospital staff spend a significant amount of time working to protect patients from acquiring infections while they are being cared for in the hospital. They employ various methods from hand hygiene to isolation rooms to rigorous ...
Sep 18, 2023
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HIV & AIDS
Researchers take another big step toward HIV cure
Today, HIV can be managed with medical treatment. However, despite 40 years of intensive research, scientists have not yet succeeded in finding a cure for the disease. People with HIV experience a flare-up of the virus only ...
Sep 18, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Early warning system can identify sepsis patients
An early warning system has the potential to identify sepsis patients early and improve patient outcomes, according to a study published online July 21 in Nature Medicine.
Aug 3, 2022
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Medical research
Clinical trial shows antisense oligonucleotide safely suppresses mutant ALS gene in pilot human study
Using a short, synthetic chain of chemically modified nucleotides engineered in the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan Medical School, Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD, Jonathan Watts, Ph.D., and colleagues have shown ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Adoptive cell therapy plus checkpoint inhibitors show promise in non-small cell lung cancer
Immunotherapy has become an important tool in the treatment of lung cancer, especially checkpoint inhibitors that block certain immune checkpoints to allow immune cells to recognize and kill cancer cells. Several checkpoint ...
Aug 12, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Analysis shows that COVID-19 infections increase risk of heart conditions up to a year later
An in-depth analysis of federal health data indicates that people who have had COVID-19 are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular complications within the first month to a year after infection. Such complications ...
Feb 7, 2022
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Diabetes
Fasting diet reduces risk markers of type 2 diabetes, study finds
A fasting diet which focuses on eating early in the day could be the key to reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Apr 6, 2023
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Medical research
Dietary supplement modifies gut microbiome—potential implications for bone marrow transplant patients
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Michigan conducted a phase I pilot study to assess the feasibility of using potato starch as a dietary intervention to modify the gut microbiome in bone marrow ...
Oct 19, 2023
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