Archive: 02/03/2020

New York governor says coronavirus spread 'inevitable'

New York's governor warned Monday the coronavirus would spread in the global financial hub as President Donald Trump prepared to meet pharmaceutical executives on the response to the outbreak that has claimed two lives in ...

Mar 2, 2020

Italy coronavirus death toll jumps to 52

Italy reported Monday a jump in the death toll from the coronavirus to 52, with more than 2,000 people infected, most in the country's northern Lombardy region.

Mar 2, 2020

Implementing microbiome diagnostics in personalized medicine: Rise of pharmacomicrobiomics

A new Commentary identifies three actionable challenges for translating pharmacomicrobiomics to personalized medicine in 2020. Pharmacomicrobiomics is the study of how microbiome variations within and between individuals ...

Mar 2, 2020

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Surgeons cut opioid prescriptions by 64 percent using a new multipronged program

Opioid prescriptions have been a known driver of the opioid epidemic, and it's now known that opioid prescriptions that last longer than five days are a risk factor for longer-term opioid use. As some surgeons' prescribing ...

Mar 2, 2020

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Scientists find functioning amyloid in healthy brain

Scientists from St Petersburg University worked with their colleagues from the St Petersburg branch of the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics. They conducted experiments on laboratory rats and showed that the FRX1 protein ...

Mar 2, 2020

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Study finds irregular sleep patterns double the risk of cardiovascular disease in older adults

Older adults with irregular sleep patterns—meaning they have no regular bedtime and wakeup schedule, or they get different amounts of sleep each night—are nearly twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease as those ...

Mar 2, 2020

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Length of pregnancy alters the child's DNA

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have, together with an international team, mapped the relationship between length of pregnancy and chemical DNA changes in more than 6,000 newborn babies. For each week's longer ...

Mar 2, 2020

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Youth exposure to tobacco outlets and cigarette smoking

A new study led by researchers at the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation explores these questions using real time data from 100 youth participants from 16-20 years old to assess ...

Mar 2, 2020

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Coping strategies, a matter of neurons

In response to stressors, individuals exhibit different coping styles, each characterized by a set of behavioural, physiological, and psychological responses. The active behavioural style refers to efforts to blunt the impact ...

Mar 2, 2020

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Women paid less than men even at highest levels of academic medicine, study finds

Women who chair clinical departments at public medical schools are paid an average of 88 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts, or about $70,000 to $80,000 less per year, researchers at the Stanford University ...

Mar 2, 2020

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