A new study of approximately 80,000 patients shows that people with Parkinson's disease (PD) have a 30% higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than people without the neurodegenerative condition.
Oct 1, 2020
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Learning to cross a busy street is anything but easy for a child, especially in places where the traffic doesn't stop.
Aug 26, 2020
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New research has identified the specific brain cells that control how much sugar you eat and how much you crave sweet tasting food.
Jul 10, 2020
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Until there are effective treatments or vaccines, the COVID-19 pandemic will remain a significant threat to public health and economies around the world. A major hurdle to developing and testing new anti-viral therapies and ...
Jun 16, 2020
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Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Georgia have developed a vaccine that fully protects mice against a lethal dose of MERS, a close cousin of the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Apr 7, 2020
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University of Iowa neuroscientists have identified a specific area of the brain involved in the loss of breathing that occurs during a seizure. The findings, published in JCI Insight on March 12, could have important implications ...
Mar 12, 2020
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By studying the sick hearts removed from four patients undergoing heart transplants, researchers have identified a protein and a signaling pathway that may contribute to sudden death in an inherited form of heart disease.
Mar 3, 2020
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Once you start to lose your hearing, you can't get it back. But what if you could prevent hearing loss by blocking in advance the effects of loud noises?
Feb 3, 2020
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Conventional wisdom says that having just one mutated copy of the cystic fibrosis gene has no effects on a person's health—the disease occurs when both copies of the gene are mutated. But a new study from the University ...
Jan 8, 2020
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News of advances in gene-editing technology raises the prospect of actually using this approach to treat disease in patients. But one of the hurdles that remains is how to deliver these tools to the right cells in the patients ...
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