In a stunning declaration of authority, Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health and human services, this week barred ...
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AstraZeneca revealed details of its large coronavirus vaccine trials on Saturday, the third in a wave of rare disclosures by ...
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BUSAN, South Korea — The scandal that riveted South Korea’s online busybodies began when Kim Ji-seon checked into a beachside ...
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Lugano, Switzerland, 19 September 2020 - The results of the phase 3 CheckMate 9ER trial have provided a new first-line ...
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Here’s what you need to know:ImageA health care worker handed a test kit to a motorist at a drive-in virus ...
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WASHINGTON — On June 30, as the coronavirus was cresting toward its summer peak, Dr. Paul Alexander, a new science ...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reversed a controversial recommendation suggesting people who have had close contact ...
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Many things will have to work out to end the coronavirus pandemic. Drug companies will have to develop a safe ...
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SAN FRANCISCO — Ian MacDonald, a 14-year-old in Portland, Ore., got a treat from his parents the other day. He ...
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ImageThe Affordable Care Act has survived many attempts to stop it, including the stripping of the individual mandate. Credit...Tim Gruber for ...
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Hospitals across the country are charging private insurance companies 2.5 times what they get from Medicare for the same care, ...
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Here’s what you need to know:ImageTesting at the Wyandotte County Health Department in Kansas last month.Credit...Christopher (KS) Smith for The ...
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I am the mother of four, but addiction is my ever-present extra child. My grandparents died of alcoholism. My father-in-law ...
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Rebecca Sutter, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, received $62,500 from Action in the Community Through Service (ACTS) for: "ACTSPWC - ...
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Toronto (September 18, 2020) - The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (University Health ...
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MISSOULA - The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Montana a five-year, $33.4 million award for the ...
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Researchers know from many previous studies what prevents cash-strapped shoppers in underserved communities from buying more fresh ...
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Despite the important advances in research in recent years, the etiopathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease is still not fully clarified. One ...
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Québec City and Montréal, September 18, 2020 - Institut de la recherche scientifique (INRS) announces that Stéphane Lefrançois, a professor ...
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The ERC will take part in the European Research and Innovation Days, the European Commission's annual flagship event, bringing together ...
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This year's groundbreaking allergy and asthma news will be delivered virtually, and for free. Every year you rely on the ...
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Public health agencies need ethical guidelines for deciding what to do when anonymous student health surveys discover a very high ...
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Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this opinion article the authors Fengyi Zeng, Xiaowen Liang and ...
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Leesburg, VA, September 18, 2020--The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) will convene its 2021 Annual Meeting as an all-virtual event ...
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Exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) to develop tools for improving the monitoring of treatment of rare, progressive, and highly debilitating diseases ...
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A deadly combination of two mosquito-borne viruses may be a trigger for stroke, new research published in the The Lancet ...
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U.S. adults increasingly experienced symptoms associated with acute stress and depression as COVID-19 cases and deaths skyrocketed between mid-March and ...
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In March, researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering-- a shared department in the schools of Dental Medicine, Medicine, and ...
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Scientists have used a new high-speed, in vitro selection method to isolate 9 antibody-like proteins (ALPs) that bind to the ...
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Studies indicate that homemade masks help combat the spread of viruses like COVID-19 when combined with frequent ...
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Irvine, Calif. - Experiencing multiple stressors triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic - such as unemployment - and COVID-19-related media consumption ...
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A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for ...
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Americans are desperate to know when a coronavirus vaccine will be available to finally curb the pandemic that has already ...
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Pregnant women who are infected with the coronavirus and hospitalized are at risk for developing serious complications, and may face ...
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Dr. John S. Najarian, a groundbreaking transplant surgeon who made headlines for taking on difficult cases and who weathered a ...
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The new Apple Watch can be summed up in two words: blood oxygen.The ability to measure your blood’s oxygen saturation ...
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Health care workers may make more mistakes in the days following the switch to daylight saving time in the spring.The ...
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A shorter reproductive life span — the time between menarche and menopause — may be linked to a higher risk ...
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Here’s what you need to know:VideotranscriptBacktranscript‘They Are Our Best Defense’: Redfield Renews Call to Wear MasksDr. Robert R. Redfield, the ...
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The biotech company Moderna released a 135-page document on Thursday that spells out the details of how it is conducting ...
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When researchers in China were analyzing hospital data of patients with Covid-19, they noticed an odd trend: Very few of ...
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As one of 11 siblings, Charity Hoffman is used to spending Christmas with dozens of relatives at her parents’ house ...
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I scan through my patient’s record, four months of life distilled into a series of progress notes, lab values and ...
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The vast majority of Twitter users who vape with JUUL e-cigarettes are not using the devices to stop smoking or ...
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Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University and the VA Portland Health Care System conducted in-depth interviews with patients at ...
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WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Although it may seem counterintuitive, researchers are turning to an animal without a brain to crack ...
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(Philadelphia, PA) - The COVID-19 pandemic has increasing numbers of doctors caring for patients virtually. While critical to protecting patient ...
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Washington, DC - The Endocrine Society will switch its annual meeting, ENDO 2021, to a fully virtual format, the Society ...
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- September 17, 2020 -- For people with chronic insomnia, a good night's sleep is elusive. But what ...
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Consuming high fructose corn syrup appears to be as bad for your health as consuming sugar in the form of ...
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TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 17, 2020 -- The Critical Path Institute (C-Path) today announced the launch of the Critical Path for ...
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BOSTON - Scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a molecular imaging probe to reveal Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related ...
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Morris Animal Foundation, a leader in advancing animal health, has awarded nearly $1 million in large animal health research grants, ...
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Public fascination with the Vikings runs high these days, with several current television series available for bloody binge-watching. But the ...
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Federal officials outlined details Wednesday of their preparations to administer a future coronavirus vaccine to Americans, saying they would begin ...
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In a new study of 26 college athletes who tested positive for coronavirus, four later showed signs of inflammation in ...
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A single infusion of an experimental drug has markedly reduced blood levels of the coronavirus in newly infected patients and ...
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Turmeric — the main spice in curry — may help ease the pain and stiffness of knee osteoarthritis.Turmeric comes from ...
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Do you want your hair to look better, shine, and be healthier? These simple rituals will enhance hair growth, improve ...
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Mistakes that are forgiven at a younger age can ruin the whole image over time and make you much older ...
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Leesburg, VA, September 16, 2020--According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), ultrasound-guided carpal tunnel release (UGCTR) quickly improves hand ...
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LA JOLLA--(September 16, 2020) The Salk Institute will establish a world-class San Diego Nathan Shock Center (SD-NSC), a consortium with ...
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The São Paulo School of Advanced Science Ecology of Human Sleep and Biological Rhythms will be held August 2-12, 2021 ...
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In the first week of the coronavirus pandemic, people living in the United States underestimated their chances of catching the ...
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The amount of synthetic microfiber we shed into our waterways has been of great concern over the last few years, ...
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WHEN: Competition on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 5 p.m.; winners to be announced on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 5 p.m ...
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An international collaboration between researchers at Queen Mary University of London and the Chinese Academy of Science in Nanjing has ...
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When viruses, parasites and other pathogens spread, humans and other animals tend to hunker down with immediate family and peer ...
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Here’s what you need to know:ImageNew infections have soared in France in recent weeks, but the country’s death rate is ...
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While we anxiously await the development and approval of a safe and effective vaccine against Covid-19, there’s another health-sparing and ...
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PARIS — In the early days of the pandemic, President Emmanuel Macron exhorted the French to wage “war” against the ...
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A Chicago-area rabbi, who formerly owned a nursing home chain at the heart of the biggest default in the history ...
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Here’s what you need to know:ImageSchool districts in New York and Massachusetts have postponed the start of in-person instruction after ...
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As businesses try to recover from the pandemic’s economic blow while ensuring the safety of workers and customers, many have ...
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My wife and I are participating in a clinical trial for a Covid-19 vaccine. We had no antibodies before we ...
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The pain woke the 52-year-old physician from a dead sleep. It was as if all the muscles in his right ...
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Excessive weight gain during pregnancy may be associated with an increased risk for childhood asthma and allergy.Chinese researchers studied 15,145 ...
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In this age of trolls and bots and digital impostors, words like “crank” and “bully” seem impossibly antiquated, like labels ...
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As anxiety and depression rise in the country, primary care clinics, especially in rural areas, are facing increased patient needs ...
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PHILADELPHIA - Our bodies frequently heal wounds, like a cut or a scrape, on their own. However patients with diabetes, ...
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ROCHESTER, Minn. -- What causes some people to develop chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and metabolic syndrome while ...
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September 15, 2020 - Digital phenotyping approaches that collect and analyze Smartphone-user data on locations, activities, and even feelings - ...
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Human white blood cells, known as leukocytes, swim using a newly described mechanism called molecular paddling, researchers report in the ...
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A study on the effectiveness of multiple treatments, including laboratory-made antibodies, at preventing mild COVID-19 from advancing to severe illness ...
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Sept. 15, 2020 -- Initial findings reported by the Arizona COVID-19 Genomics Union (ACGU) suggest that following ...
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WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Medicine today announced Stephen P. Hinshaw is the recipient of the 2020 Rhoda and ...
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WASHINGTON -- For his role as a leader of federal research and policy on infectious diseases and, in particular, for ...
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Roughly 1 in 10 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 needed to return to the hospital within a week of discharge from ...
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On Monday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation released the fourth of its annual Goalkeeper reports, which track the slow ...
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Before the pandemic, it was not unusual for Tiffany Foy and a team of other dental hygienists to visit schools ...
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Nothing about masks and masking has come easily in the United States, it seems. There were mixed and confusing messages ...
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Launching a dual-pronged attack on tumours using a combination of two innovative precision medicines could treat patients with multiple common ...
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PHOENIX and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Sept. 14, 2020 -- A team of researchers led by Mayo Clinic and the Translational ...
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Falls are the leading cause of fatal injuries in older adults, causing more than 800,000 hospitalizations and about 30,000 deaths ...
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Los Angeles (September 14, 2020) -- One of the mysteries about severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus ...
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Botox injections to manage jaw and facial pain do not result in clinically significant changes in jaw bone when used ...
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(Boston)--Since 1976, the Framingham Heart Study (FHS)--the longest running multi-generational epidemiological study in the world--has followed participants for incident dementia ...
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The University of Liverpool is leading a major new international project to improve our understanding of severe coronavirus infection in ...
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NEW YORK (September 14, 2020) -- Neonatal intensive care units (NICU) should balance prevention of Staphylococcus aureus infections in critically ...
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Medical experts have worked for decades to improve the chances that patients will get the scans, routine tests and medicines ...
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