Elderly patients with neurological conditions are significantly more likely to develop delirium shortly after they are hospitalised. A new study has discovered that a delayed transfer to a hospital floor is associated with greater short-term risk of delirium among patients aged 65 and over, and for those who arrive to the Emergency Department (ED) on…
IMAGE: Fran Lund view more Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – There are many reasons that an intranasal vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus would be helpful in the fight against COVID-19 infections, University of Alabama at Birmingham immunologists Fran Lund, Ph.D., and Troy Randall, Ph.D., write in a viewpoint article in the journal Science. That route of…
July 23, 2021 – Last year, the American Cancer Society (ACS) issued an updated set of guidelines for cervical cancer screening – emphasizing the shift toward screening with primary human papillomavirus (HPV) testing. While the ACS recommendation accounts for a transition period to implement primary HPV screening, additional factors should be considered to operationalize these…
Yale Receives $15 Million for Health Education Collaboration with the University of Liberia College of Health Sciences and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health Yale University has received a $15 million, five-year U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) award to advance research utilization in Liberia’s health sector. This award will fund the continuation of Yale’s strong…
IMAGE: The Locus Coeruleus is deep in the brain but projects circuits throughout the organ. view more Credit: Sur Lab/ MIT Picower Institute Small and seemingly specialized, the brain’s locus coeruleus (LC) region has been stereotyped for its outsized export of the arousal-stimulating neuromodulator norepinephrine. In a new paper and with a new grant from the…
IMAGE: Dr. Abhishek Jain and his team at Texas A&M are collaborating with researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University to develop and test their new microdevice, the ovarian… view more Credit: Texas A&M Engineering In the evolving field of cancer biology and treatment, innovations in organ-on-a-chip microdevices allow researchers to discover more about…
IMAGE: Participants in the study carried backpacks containing air-sampling equipment and a silicone wristband attached to it to analyze exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The research team found that the… view more Credit: Itza Mendoza-Sanchez A study by researchers at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health shows that inexpensive and convenient devices such…
At a glance: Researchers studied cells collected by nasal swabs at the moment of diagnosis for both mild and severe COVID-19 patients Cells taken from patients who went on to develop severe disease had a muted antiviral response compared to those who went on to develop mild disease This suggests that it may be possible…
A University of Arizona Health Sciences study of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and immunity among frontline workers has received a $15 million award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue the current research for another year and expand to include children and focus on underserved populations. “This phase of the AZ…
IMAGE: Co-corresponding authors Jinghui Zhang, Ph.D., St. Jude Department of Computational Biology chair, demonstrated that comprehensive genomic sequencing of all pediatric cancer patients is feasible and essential to capitalize on the… view more Credit: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators have demonstrated that comprehensive genomic sequencing of all pediatric cancer patients…