DARIEN, IL – May 21, 2021 – Don’t miss your opportunity to join leading scientists and sleep clinicians from around the globe at the world’s largest meeting for sleep and circadian science. Virtual SLEEP 2021, the 35th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC, is June 10-13, 2021 in an exciting online-only format.…
CLEVELAND – Follow-up data from the landmark SPRINT study of the effect of high blood pressure on cardiovascular disease have confirmed that aggressive blood pressure management — lowering systolic blood pressure to less than 120 mm Hg — dramatically reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, and death from these diseases, as well as death…
Beijing, 19 May 2021: the journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published a new issue, Volume 5 Issue 4. This issue brings together important research from leading cardiologists in US and China in a combination of reviews, original research and case reports. REVIEWS Pei Huang, Yi Zhang, Yi Tang, Qinghua Fu, Zhaofen Zheng,…
The human body is constantly exposed to various environmental actors, from viruses to bacteria to fungi, but most of these microbial organisms provoke little or no response from our skin, which is charged with monitoring and protecting from external dangers. Until now, researchers weren’t quite sure how that happened — and why our skin wasn’t…
HIV prevention services will be combined with access to gender-affirming hormonal therapy and peer health navigation to try to reduce the disproportionate percentage of transgender women who are HIV positive in an innovative study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHeath). “It’s important that we ensure we are…
In response to the growing concerns of clinical trial research and financial conflicts of interest, STEM CELLS Translational Medicine is announcing a special webinar, Stem Cell Research and Pay-to-Participate Trials, to help build a consensus statement and establish balance between clinical research and ethical issues. This webinar will be held virtually on September 22, 2021.…
Business shutdowns reduce COVID-19 deaths, though with rapidly diminishing returns, with study of Italian lockdowns estimating they saved over 9,400 lives in under a month. ### Article Title: Closed for business: The mortality impact of business closures during the Covid-19 pandemic Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. Competing Interests: The authors…
Simon Fraser University researchers have validated a faster, cheaper COVID-19 test that could kickstart the expansion of more widespread rapid testing. Study results have been published in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. “This research offers a cheaper, faster alternative to the most reliable and sensitive test currently used worldwide, without sacrificing sensitivity and reproducibility,” says…
It also had an unusual genetic mutation, a deletion in what is commonly known as the N gene, which codes for an important structural protein. This deletion has not been documented in other canine coronaviruses, Dr. Vlasova said, but similar mutations have appeared in the viruses that cause Covid and SARS. “So what does this…
People in Africa who become critically ill from Covid-19 are more likely to die than patients in other parts of the world, according to a report published on Thursday in the medical journal The Lancet. The report, based on data from 64 hospitals in 10 countries, is the first broad look at what happens to…