How social distancing during a pandemic affects the elderly in rural South Africa Socializing is essential for brain health in the elderly in rural South Africa—has lockdown affected their cognitive function? Sep 30, 2020 0 1
Your child's vaccines: What you need to know about catching up during the COVID-19 pandemic This spring, after stay-at-home orders were announced and schools shut down across the nation, many families stopped going to their pediatrician. As a result, kids have fallen behind on important childhood vaccinations. Sep 30, 2020 0 1
Protocols to make data on kids secure, shareable eventually may help families Researchers in developmental psychology face a perplexing challenge: They know that collecting and sharing data about children can lead to real benefits for kids and their families, but they also recognize that some kinds ... Sep 30, 2020 0 1
Researchers streamline PTSD diagnosis with machine learning Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects eight million adults in the US, including hundreds of thousands of veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. And as the COVID crisis continues to take its toll on everyone's ... Sep 30, 2020 0 31
Hydroxychloroquine no more effective than placebo in preventing COVID-19: study In a clinical trial testing whether a daily regimen of hydroxychloroquine could protect those most likely to be exposed to COVID-19, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found ... Sep 30, 2020 0 117
Novel role of microglia as modulators of neurons in the brain is discovered Immune cells in the brain that act as scavengers to remove dying cells also play a potentially pivotal role in the regulation of behavior in both mice and humans, a research team from Mount Sinai has found. The newly identified ... Sep 30, 2020 0 316
Social novelty has a special place in the brain In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan report that a part of the mouse brain called the SuM is specialized for detecting new experiences. Within the SuM, ... Sep 30, 2020 0 18
New survey shows links between COVID-19 pandemic and B.C. nurses' mental health B.C. nurses working in the front lines at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic experienced high levels of emotional exhaustion, depression and anxiety, finds a new survey by UBC nursing researchers and the BC Nurses' Union ... Sep 30, 2020 0 1
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals details about individual cells in pancreatic tumors Led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, and by HonorHealth Research and Innovation Institute, an international team of researchers have described in detail the individual ... Sep 30, 2020 0 74
In the future glaucoma eye tests could be performed at home Glaucoma is a chronic condition that affects cells at the back of the eye. It is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, and is responsible for 1 in 10 cases of serious sight impairment in the UK. Sep 30, 2020 0 5
