People with dementia receiving home health care visits are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital when there is consistency in nursing staff, according to a new study by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. The findings are published in the journal Medical Care, a journal of the American Public Health Association.…
IMAGE: Publishes original articles and timely reviews that reflect the rapidly advancing changes in our understanding of thyroid physiology and pathology, from the molecular biology of the cell to clinical management… view more Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 24, 2021—The American Thyroid Association, the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, the European…
IMAGE: Linda Tropp, professor of social psychology at UMass Amherst, led the multinational study in the U.S. view more Credit: UMass Amherst What does it take for people to commit to take action to promote social equality? And how might this differ for people from advantaged and disadvantaged groups? An international team, including Linda Tropp at…
A new study by UC Davis researchers confirms the low likelihood that SARS-CoV-2 contamination on hospital surfaces is infectious. The study, published June 24 in PLOS ONE, is the original report on recovering near-complete SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences directly from surface swabs. “Our team was the first to demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 virus sequences could be identified…
IMAGE: CD40 receptor clustering driven by CD40 ligand or anti-CD40 antibody, 341G2 with the human IgG2 (h2) isotype. Jurkat cells expressing full length hCD40-green fluorescent protein (GFP), were treated with 10… view more Credit: University of Southampton Scientists from within the Antibody and Vaccine Group at the University of Southampton have gained novel insights into how…
IMAGE: The mycobacterial ESX-5 secretion system is located in the bacterial inner membrane and consists of six units, which assemble into a symmetrical structure with a pore at the centre. view more Credit: Isabel Romero Calvo/EMBL Tuberculosis is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, infecting about one-quarter of the world’s population. Although it…
IMAGE: Microscope image of human astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells that play a substantial role in neurological disorders. view more Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/Nature Communications FINDINGS A UCLA-led study comparing brain cells known as astrocytes in humans and mice found that mouse astrocytes are more resilient to oxidative stress, a damaging imbalance that is…
An early intervention developed for caregivers of patients with serious illnesses or injuries will be tested by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). “In the case of serious injury, chronic illness, or diagnoses that impact patients’ abilities to live and function independently, a loved one often takes on the…
A study from UCLA neurologists challenges the idea that the brain recruits existing neurons to take over for those that are lost from stroke. It shows that in mice, undamaged neurons do not change their function after a stroke to compensate for damaged ones. A stroke occurs when the blood supply to a certain part…
CHAPEL HILL, NC – Developing a viable vaccine against dengue virus has proved difficult because the pathogen is actually four different virus types, or serotypes. Unless a vaccine protects against all four, a vaccine can wind up doing more harm than good. To help vaccine developers overcome this hurdle, the UNC School of Medicine lab…