A new platform for detecting substandard and counterfeit medicines using microfluidics has been recognized with a grant from Saving Lives at Birth's "Grand Challenge through Development." Dubbed PharmaCheck, the technology ...
Jul 26, 2012
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The World Health Organization criticized China's "very narrow" definition of COVID deaths on Wednesday, warning that official statistics were not showing the true impact of the outbreak.
Jan 4, 2023
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The ERA-EDTA has created a European database that collects granular individual data of dialysis patients and transplanted patients with COVID-19. "End stage renal disease patients are generally assumed to be at very high ...
Apr 9, 2020
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In this week's PLoS Medicine, Walter Bouwmeester of the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands and colleagues investigate the reporting and methods of prediction studies in 2008 in six top international general ...
May 22, 2012
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Italy began conducting antibody tests in the northern region of Lombardy on Thursday, seeking information about coronavirus immunity to help guide authorities as they reopen the long locked-down country.
Apr 23, 2020
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Americans nationwide now have a chance to help government officials decide when to ease social-distancing policies by completing a survey on a new website that compiles information about if and when their counties implemented ...
Apr 13, 2020
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Uptake of national guidelines for the treatment of children hospitalized with COVID-19 fell well below what would typically be expected, report researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and elsewhere ...
Nov 16, 2022
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The time between when antenatal corticosteroids are administered and a woman gives birth can improve certain preterm birth outcomes for her baby, a systematic review led by Burnet Institute has found.
May 2, 2023
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As high school athletes return to practice and games for a variety of sports, the threat of concussions remains. A new study from researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) used head impact sensors in four ...
Mar 17, 2021
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Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic must consider the complex interplay between socio-economic status and health disparities, according to a recent analysis led by a team of University of Toronto researchers.
Jun 24, 2020
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