Pediatrics

New insight into protecting newborns with low blood sugars

Newborns at risk of brain damage from low blood sugar levels are increasingly safe, as research at the University of Auckland's Liggins Institute continues to break new ground, with two papers published in the same edition ...

HIV & AIDS

Uncontrolled HIV could be behind COVID-19 variants in Africa

Failure to get COVID-19 vaccines to countries with high rates of uncontrolled advanced HIV could lead to the emergence of new variants, write Nokukhanya Msomi, Richard Lessells and colleagues in a Comment in this week's Nature. ...

Medical research

Improving patient experiences in cancer clinical trials

Cancer clinical trials (CCTs) provide patients an opportunity to receive experimental drugs, tests, and/or procedures that can lead to remissions. For some, a CCT may seem like their only option. Yet little is known about ...

Medical research

COVID-19: Persistent symptoms in one third of cases

Since its appearance in early 2020, COVID-19 has been unpredictable for both physicians and affected individuals given the variety and duration of its symptoms. Notably, it appears to have the potential to cause an unusually ...

Neuroscience

Researchers discover how the brain 're-wires' after disease

Trinity researchers are studying how the brain re-wires itself in neurological disease. The team is building treatments for today's more common global conditions like motor neurone disease (MND/ALS) and spinal muscular ...

Medical research

Safe resumption of research is important, feasible

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, just as public institutions and businesses closed, research programs performing human participant research (HPR) also largely ceased operations. Now, universities and healthcare organizations ...

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