Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says Australia has secured access to Ronapreve and Pfizer's oral antiviral drug PF-07321332. Here's what we know about these drugs and how they work. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Public health interventions, more hospitals associated with reduction in COVID-19 case-fatality rates
Counties that banned in-person religious gatherings and those with a greater number of hospitals per capita were associated with a decreased case-fatality rate of COVID-19 during the pandemic’s first wave, according to a new University of Michigan ... [Continue Reading]
Study finds a downward trend in buprenorphine misuse among U.S. adults with opioid use disorder
Data from a nationally representative survey indicate that in 2019, nearly three-fourths of U.S. adults reporting buprenorphine use did not misuse the medication in the past 12 months. SOURCE: The Medical News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Identifying the risks of babies being born small
Rosie Stoke describes her work looking to identify the full range of risk factors for small babies and how care can be directed to reduce the chances of babies being born small. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Plant-eating lizards on the cusp of tooth evolution
Researchers found that complex teeth, a hallmark of mammals, also evolved several times in reptiles, prompting the evolutionary success of plant-eating lizards. However, contrary to mammals their tooth evolution was not unidirectional. SOURCE: ... [Continue Reading]
Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regions
In the early solar system, a 'protoplanetary disk' of dust and gas rotated around the sun and eventually coalesced into the planets we know today. A new study suggests that a mysterious gap existed within this disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and ... [Continue Reading]
Misinformation on stem cell treatments for COVID-19 linked to overhyped science, researchers argue
The global race to develop new stem cell-based COVID-19 treatments during the pandemic was filled with violations of government regulations, inflated medical claims and distorted public communication, say the authors of a new perspective published ... [Continue Reading]
Skin stem cells get moving for enhanced skin regeneration
Although sometimes hard to accept, with aging, many things in our bodies change. One of these is the ability of the skin to regenerate. Old skin is just not as good as young skin at healing wounds. However, the molecular and cellular mechanisms ... [Continue Reading]
Laser treatment shows potential to transform glaucoma management in Africa
Laser treatment has the potential to transform the management of glaucoma in Africa, and to prevent more people from going irreversibly blind, particularly in regions with high disease prevalence and incidence, suggests new research published in ... [Continue Reading]
WHO blames pandemic as tuberculosis deaths rise for first time in years
Fewer people got tested and treated for the disease because resources were diverted to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO has said. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
How highly processed foods harm memory in the aging brain
Four weeks on a diet of highly processed food led to a strong inflammatory response in the brains of aging rats that was accompanied by behavioral signs of memory loss, a new study has found. Researchers also found that supplementing the processed ... [Continue Reading]
The dinosaur extinction led to lots of new mammals and birds — and snakes to eat them
After the dinosaurs disappeared, the world saw an explosion of birds and mammals. But a study suggests a burst of new snakes appeared, too, with diets to match the newly expanding array of animals. SOURCE: Research News : NPR - Read entire story ... [Continue Reading]
Mito warriors: Scientists discover how T cell assassins reload their weapons to kill and kill again
Cambridge researchers have discovered how T cells—an important component of our immune system—are able keep on killing as they hunt down and kill cancer cells, repeatedly reloading their toxic weapons. SOURCE: Medical Research News - Health ... [Continue Reading]
MR-guided focused ultrasound can safely deliver antibody therapy to Her2-positive brain metastases
In a first-in-world clinical trial, researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, have demonstrated that magnetic resonance (MR)-guided focused ultrasound can be used to safely deliver antibody therapy to breast cancer that has ... [Continue Reading]
Smoke from nuclear war would devastate ozone layer, alter climate
The massive columns of smoke generated by a nuclear war would alter the world's climate for years and devastate the ozone layer, endangering both human health and food supplies, new research shows. The international study draws on newly developed ... [Continue Reading]
A study of COVID vaccine boosters suggests Moderna or Pfizer works best
Should people who get a COVID booster get a different vaccine from their original shot? The results of a highly anticipated study suggest that in some cases the answer may be yes.(Image credit: Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images) SOURCE: ... [Continue Reading]
Stem cell transplant: How skin-derived T cells can damage other organs
More than 40,000 allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants are carried out worldwide every year, mostly for patients suffering from leukemia or other diseases of the hematopoietic system. Very often, the so-called graft-versus-host reaction ... [Continue Reading]
Unique sound from wind farms may cause more sleep disruption than other noise sources
Residents who live within 10 km of a wind farm report more sleep issues from other sources, such as insomnia, stress and snoring spouses, than the nearby wind farms, a Flinders University study has found. SOURCE: The Medical News - Read entire story ... [Continue Reading]
‘Selective promiscuity,’ chaperones and the secrets of cellular health
A team of researchers has announced a major new advance in understanding how our genetic information eventually translates into functional proteins -- one of the building blocks of human life. The research elucidates how chaperones display 'selective ... [Continue Reading]
Zebrafish could shed light into the mysteries of the human spinal cord and its influence on our body
University of Ottawa researchers believe zebrafish may provide clues to understanding how the human nervous system develops since this fish experiences new movements similarly to how babies do after birth. SOURCE: Medical Research News - Health ... [Continue Reading]
A Nobel Prize for a revolution in economics
David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens win a Nobel Prize for revolutionizing how economics is done.(Image credit: CLAUDIO BRESCIANI/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Ima) SOURCE: Research News : NPR - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Research reveals components of Sinbis virus ribonucleoproteins
To address this gap in research regarding the understanding of post-replicative alphavirus RNPs, scientists have created a novel proteome-wide approach known as viral RNA interactome capture (vRIC). This study is available in the bioRxiv* preprint ... [Continue Reading]
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