Medications
Cancer drug may be lifesaver for hospitalized COVID patients
An experimental drug used to fight cancer may reduce the risk of death for COVID-19 patients by roughly 55%, a new study suggests.
Jul 6, 2022
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Neuroscience
Novel neurofeedback technique enhances awareness of mind-wandering
Everyone knows the feeling. You are trying to concentrate on driving or studying, or paying attention in a boring meeting, but suddenly, you realize that you are thinking about something irrelevant to the task at hand. While ...
Jan 16, 2023
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Addiction
Trials of alcohol use disorder treatments routinely exclude sex, gender, race, and ethnicity from consideration
The manifestation of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and its social, health, and psychological implications depend in part on patient demographics. Yet researchers routinely exclude those demographics from analyses of non-medicinal ...
Jul 29, 2022
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Vaccination
In second breakthrough, Moderna's Covid vaccine 'highly effective'
US biotech firm Moderna on Monday announced its experimental vaccine against COVID-19 was almost 95 percent effective, marking a second major breakthrough in the quest to end the pandemic.
Nov 16, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Playfulness can be trained—here's why you should do it
Simple exercises can help to make people more playful and consequently feel more satisfied with their lives. This has been revealed in a new study by psychologists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in the ...
Aug 27, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study find progesterone therapy may improve COVID-19 outcomes for men
COVID-19 disproportionately affects men compared with women, raising the possibility that a hormone like progesterone may improve clinical outcomes for certain hospitalized men with the disease. New research from Cedars-Sinai ...
Mar 18, 2021
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Diabetes
Study identifies receptor's role in regulating obesity, type 2 diabetes
A recent study led by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) demonstrates that the A2b-type adenosine receptor, A2bAR, plays a significant role in the regulation of high fat, high cholesterol diet-induced symptoms of ...
Jul 26, 2012
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Addiction
Alcohol-related deaths have increased in the United States
An analysis of death certificates suggests that the number of alcohol-related deaths doubled in the United States between 1999-2017.
Jan 8, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Ebola drug testing sparks ethics debate
Health officials are scrambling to begin human testing of a handful of experimental drugs for Ebola. But the effort has sparked an ethical debate over how to study unproven medicines amid an outbreak that has killed nearly ...
Nov 12, 2014
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Health
One way to reduce medical errors? Connect doctors with other doctors
We trust our doctors with our lives, but the sad and scary fact is that doctors can get things wrong. Approximately 100,000 Americans die each year due to medical errors and recent studies have found that 10 to 15% of all ...
Jul 24, 2023
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