Medical research
How highly mobile populations can skew local COVID-19 wastewater trends
If you thought the waters of data-driven research couldn't get any murkier, you haven't met the team of scientists studying our sewage.
Feb 27, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Differences in animal biology can affect cancer drug development
A small but significant metabolic difference between human and mouse lung tumor cells, has been discovered by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers, explaining a discrepancy in previous study results, and pointing toward new ...
Feb 24, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New study is the first to examine contextual factors associated with higher rates of suicide in the Americas
A CAMH-led study of national suicide rates in 33 countries in the Americas over the past 20 years has found several key contextual factors associated with national rates of suicide.
Feb 23, 2023
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Surgery
Understanding the value of a physician's intuition when assessing risk factors for surgery
Preoperative surgeon intuition is an independent predictor of 30-day postoperative complications; however, when compared to the standard risk calculator derived from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality ...
Feb 23, 2023
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Medical research
Clinical trials often overlook people with disabilities, shows analysis
Disabilities were underreported in clinical trial data and commonly used as a basis for exclusion from trial participation in an analysis of 80 recent trials involving cardiovascular outcomes, according to a study being presented ...
Feb 23, 2023
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Medical research
Clinical trials on new cancer drugs still fall far short of including key data on several demographic groups
Despite widespread agreement that clinical trials should enroll a representative sampling of individuals from different age, gender, and racial and ethnic groups, a new Yale School of Medicine study shows that clinical trials ...
Feb 23, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Physically demanding work tied to higher male fertility, study suggests
A new study from researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, suggests that men who regularly lift heavy objects at work have higher sperm counts. The study, ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study provides roadmap for using convalescent plasma as an effective COVID-19 treatment
Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, new variant outbreaks continue to fuel economic disruptions and hospitalizations across the globe. Effective therapies remain unavailable in much of the world, and circulating variants ...
Feb 21, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Big data initiative discovers new causal pathways in Alzheimer's
A new study, published on Feb. 15 in Alzheimer's & Dementia, analyzed biological samples from hundreds of individuals from a European study. Researchers looked at the biological information at various levels—genes, proteins, ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Cardiology
Predicting no-reflow phenomenon after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in older patients with STEMI
Coronary no-reflow phenomenon (NRP), a common adverse complication in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is associated with poor patient prognosis. ...
Feb 16, 2023
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