Archive: 17/06/2021

People with back pain miss far fewer workdays when they receive recommended treatments

Medical guidelines help doctors understand the best way to treat health conditions. Surprisingly, many doctors do not adhere to them, and this is a problem, according to a new study by scientists at University of Utah Health ...

Jun 17, 2021

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Online coaching improves choices of women experiencing pregnancy difficulties

Personalised coaching through a smartphone platform can help women improve their lifestyle behaviours in the period before and shortly after they become pregnant, a new study has shown. The biggest reduction in behaviours ...

Jun 17, 2021

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Scientists develop 'CATCHER' for crucial biomarkers

Tiny genetic markers, circulating in the blood, have shown great promise in diagnosing and treating disease. Yet identifying and harvesting these extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been a major challenge for science.

Jun 17, 2021

Researchers develop new imaging agent to detect activated platelets

More than 2 million coronary artery stents are implanted each year to help protect or restore normal blood flow to the heart, to treat patients suffering from angina or a heart attack due to coronary artery disease (CAD). ...

Jun 17, 2021

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Researchers identify gene responsible for increased risk of infantile fragility

An intrauterine fracture is a rare finding during routine prenatal imaging. This condition can be due to maternal trauma or genetic disorders of the skeleton, as well as other predisposing maternal metabolic and vascular ...

Jun 17, 2021

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Asymptomatic pertussis more common in infants than previously thought

A new study challenges long-standing assumptions about disease severity in infants, and suggests that standard qPCR interpretations underestimate the true burden of other highly contagious diseases, such as COVID-19 and influenza.

Jun 17, 2021

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Adding checkpoint inhibition to anti-HER2 breast cancer therapy brings no benefit

Adding an immune checkpoint inhibitor to anti-HER2 treatment in breast cancer does not improve pathological complete response (pCR), according to the primary analysis of the IMpassion050 trial presented today during the ESMO ...

Jun 17, 2021

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Pfizer and Moderna vaccines do no harm to male fertility, says study

The Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines pose no threat to male fertility, a finding experts hope will prompt more men to get vaccinated.

Jun 17, 2021

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Testicular cancer: Improved treatment and prognosis

An international research consortium, in which Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and the University of Bern participated, has reassessed and updated the previous classification of metastatic testicular cancer in a comprehensive ...

Jun 17, 2021

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Targeting cellular response to SARS-CoV-2 holds promise as new way to fight infection

When a person is infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, it invades their cells and uses them to replicate—which puts the cells under stress. Current approaches to dealing with infection target the virus ...

Jun 17, 2021

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