Archive: 09/03/2020

The health care system is failing transgender cancer survivors

A new Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) study is the first-ever population-based study of cancer prevalence in transgender people, estimating 62,530 of the nearly 17 million cancer survivors in the U.S. are ...

Mar 9, 2020

Bacteria potentially involved in the development of type 2 diabetes

Bacteria may be involved in the development of type 2 diabetes, according to a study published today in Nature Metabolism by researchers from Université Laval, the Québec Heart and Lung Institute (IUCPQ), and McMaster University.

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Scientists create tool to detect genes associated with psychiatric, brain diseases

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and colleagues created a new computational tool called H-MAGMA to study the genetic underpinnings of nine brain disorders, including the identification of new genes associated with ...

Mar 9, 2020

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Researchers identify factors essential for chronic hepatitis B infection

Researchers at Princeton University have identified a set of human proteins that the hepatitis B virus (HBV) uses to establish itself permanently inside liver cells. The study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, ...

Mar 9, 2020

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Microscopic STAR particles offer new potential treatment for skin diseases

Skin diseases affect half of the world's population, but many treatments are not effective, require frequent injections, or cause significant side effects. But what if there was a treatment that eliminated injections, reduced ...

Mar 9, 2020

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Method to predict critical circulatory failure

Patients in a hospital's intensive care unit are kept under close observation: Clinicians continuously monitor their vital signs such as their pulse, blood pressure and blood oxygen saturation. This provides doctors and nurses ...

Mar 9, 2020

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Team finds cancer drug resistance genes and possibly how to limit their effects

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a gene associated with about half of glucocorticoid resistance in children with the most common pediatric cancer. Researchers have also identified a drug that ...

Mar 9, 2020

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Scientists identify new target for Parkinson's therapies

A master control region of a protein linked to Parkinson's disease has been identified for the first time.

Mar 9, 2020

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An app a day: China embraces tele-medicine to keep the doctor away

As the coronavirus crisis rages, a Chinese woman working in Paris takes to a computer to consult a doctor thousands of kilometres away in Shanghai about a worrisome cough and headache.

Mar 9, 2020

Providing contraceptive care in the pediatric emergency department

A new study found that two-thirds of female adolescents ages 16-21 seen in a pediatric Emergency Department (ED) were interested in discussing contraception, despite having a high rate of recent visits to a primary care provider. ...

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