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Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie gives $1 million to Penn medicine research to fight COVID-19

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PHILADELPHIA–Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie today announced a $1 million contribution to Penn Medicine to establish the COVID-19 Immunology Defense Fund, laying the foundation for the world’s foremost experts to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic. The funds will support both an emerging research program to test front-line health care workers for potential immunity to COVID-19,…

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76ers star player, owners partner with Penn Med to fight COVID-19

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As part of a pledge to coronavirus medical relief efforts, NBA All-Star Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers, along with the team’s managing partner, Josh Harris, and co-managing partner, David Blitzer, today announced a combined contribution of $1.3 million to Penn Medicine, establishing a funding campaign for COVID-19 antibody testing of front line health care…

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McGill researchers identify correlation between MBI and Alzheimer’s

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In recent years, scientists have conducted more than 100 clinical trials in the hopes of finding new indicators capable of diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease prior to the manifestation of clinical symptoms such as memory loss. Though MBI, characterized by changes in the normal patterns of behaviour in the elderly, had already been suggested to be an…

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Whether marijuana helps with pain is unclear, study suggests

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Medical marijuana users who say they have high levels of pain are more likely than those with low pain to say they use cannabis three or more times a day, a new study finds. However, daily marijuana users with severe pain also reported their health had become worse in the past year.…

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COVID-19 in humanitarian settings and lessons learned from past epidemics

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April 8, 2020 — “COVID-19 in Humanitarian Settings and Lessons Learned from Past Epidemics” published in Nature Medicine, invokes a global response to protect the most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors make the point that displaced populations, including refugees and migrants, are often the first to be stigmatized and unjustly blamed for the…

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New tool helps gather useful genetic information obtained from blood, skin tissues

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Philadelphia, March 31, 2020 – DNA sequencing is becoming a more commonplace method for detecting diseases and improving precision medicine. Because DNA sequencing does not detect all possible disease-causing mutations, RNA sequencing is often used to address this important gap. However, RNA sequencing is typically performed on clinically-accessible tissues from blood and skin and likely…

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COVID-19 news from Annals of Internal Medicine

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Below please find link(s) of new coronavirus-related content published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. A collection of coronavirus-related content is free to the public at //go.annals.org/coronavirus. Chest Computed Tomography for Detection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Don’t Rush the Science In this Ideas and Opinions piece from the University of California, San…

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Testing asymptomatic individuals to assess COVID-19 spread in Luxembourg

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The Research Luxembourg COVID-19 task force announces the launch of “CON-VINCE “, a study that aims to evaluate the dynamics of the spread of the COVID-19 disease within the Luxembourgish population. The project is one of the several initiatives put in place under the aegis of the task force to help contain the current pandemic.…

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COVID-19: Genetic network analysis provides ‘snapshot’ of pandemic origins

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Researchers from Cambridge, UK, and Germany have reconstructed the early “evolutionary paths” of COVID-19 in humans – as infection spread from Wuhan out to Europe and North America – using genetic network techniques. By analysing the first 160 complete virus genomes to be sequenced from human patients, the scientists have mapped some of the original…

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Early bedtime may help children maintain healthy weight

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Going to bed early and following a consistent bedtime routine may help reduce children’s risk of becoming overweight or obese, according to a new study published in Acta Paediatrica. In the study of 1,258 Indigenous Australian children with an average age of 6 years, children who consistently went to bed late experienced greater weight gain…

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