Archive: 18/05/2021

Consistent messaging is key to combatting young people's COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Consistent messages about the safety and need for COVID-19 vaccines are key to overcoming young people's reluctance to get inoculated, researchers at Georgia State and New York universities say.

May 18, 2021

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What do vaccine passports mean to you?

With more than 120 million U.S. residents fully vaccinated and eager to visit book stores and restaurants again, some businesses may require people to show vaccine credentials to prove that they have received their shots. ...

May 18, 2021

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Filter could curb airborne spread of COVID-19 virus

A filter made from polymer nanothreads blew three kinds of commercial masks out of the water by capturing 99.9% of coronavirus aerosols in an experiment.

May 18, 2021

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Synaptic transmission: Not a one-way street

Information flows in a well-defined direction in the brain: Chemical and electrical signals are passed from one neuron to the other across the synapse, from the pre-synaptic to the post-synaptic neuron. Now, Peter Jonas and ...

May 18, 2021

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Black, Hispanic and Asian populations saw greatest rise in cardiac deaths during pandemic

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States experienced higher rates of heart disease and cerebrovascular disease deaths relative to the corresponding months the previous year. While a large body of evidence ...

May 18, 2021

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Doctors warn of late diagnoses as cancer screening backlog grows

Patients may need extra encouragement to attend routine cancer screening appointments, say cancer experts across Canada.

May 18, 2021

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Same nerve cell, different influence on food intake

The nerve cells, also called neurons, in our brain control all the basic processes of our body. For this reason, there are different types of neurons distributed over specific regions of the brain. Researchers at the Max ...

May 18, 2021

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What happens in the brain when we imagine the future?

In quiet moments, the brain likes to wander—to the events of tomorrow, an unpaid bill, an upcoming vacation.

May 18, 2021

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Machine learning for predicting the best treatment for vesicoureteral reflux in kids

The result of abnormal formation of the normal valve between the kidney and bladder, vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) can lead to recurrent febrile urinary tract infections (UTIs) and kidney scarring in children. Previous research ...

May 18, 2021

Alzheimer's disease through the eyes of a hyperspectral camera

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the three so-called trillion-dollar diseases in the world, next to cancer and diabetes. It is expected that in the next 40 years, the number of people diagnosed with AD will triple.

May 18, 2021

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