Knowledge and perceptions of COVID-19 among the general public in the US, UK

Below please find links to new coronavirus-related content published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. All coronavirus-related content published in Annals of Internal Medicine is free to the public. A complete collection is available at https://annals.org/aim/pages/coronavirus-content. Also new in this issue: Knowledge and perceptions of coronavirus disease 2019 among the general public in the United…

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Lin studying gene transcription in blood of patients treated for opioid use disorder

MingKuan Lin, Research Assistant Professor, INOVA Neuroscience, School of Systems Biology, is working to measure gene expression levels in blood from patients undergoing treatment with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder. Transcription is the process in which a segment of DNA is transcripted into RNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase. As part of this project, Lin…

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Tel Aviv University joins volunteer initiative to improve coronavirus testing in Israel

Israeli hospitals and universities, including Tel Aviv University, have joined forces to build an enormous student volunteer base to expand and improve the detection of people infected with novel coronavirus all over Israel. In addition, TAU, together with the Weizmann Institute of Science and other institutes in Israel, has recruited over 600 doctoral students to…

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Autism rates declining among wealthy whites, while escalating among poor, minorities

Wealthy, white California counties–once considered the nation’s hotbeds for autism spectrum disorder (ASD)–have seen prevalence flatten or fall in the last two decades, while rates among poor whites and minorities keep ticking up, new CU Boulder research has found. The study, published March 19 in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, raises the possibility…

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Supporting clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic

Below please find link(s) to new coronavirus-related content published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. All coronavirus-related content published in Annals of Internal Medicine is free to the public. A complete collection is available at https://annals.org/aim/pages/coronavirus-content. Supporting Clinicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic Charlene Dewey, MD, Med; Susan Hingle, MD; Elizabeth Goelz, MD; Mark Linzer, MD …

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AI may help predict responses to non-small cell lung cancer systemic therapies

Bottom Line: Using standard-of-care computed tomography (CT) scans in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), researchers utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to train algorithms to predict tumor sensitivity to three systemic cancer therapies. Journal in Which the Study was Published: Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research Author: Laurent…

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