UCLA Health will receive a $4.8 million grant from The National Institutes of Health to develop methods that will improve genetic risk estimates – polygenic risk scores – for specific diseases in people from diverse populations and mixed ancestries. The NIH funding comes from grants provided by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and
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COVID-19 vaccines have been tested, validated and administered to millions of people around the world. But in some countries, the vaccines have yet to arrive in great enough numbers. One significant hurdle is that the vaccines must be stored between 36 and 46 degrees Fahrenheit to retain their full efficacy, according to the Centers for
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing has received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to fund a much-needed expansion of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training and certification in West Tennessee. SANE programs are designed to train nurses
South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize receives the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination at the Khayelitsha Hospital near Cape Town, South Africa, February 17, 2021. Gianluigi Guercia | Pool | Reuters Some countries are seeing an increasingly worrying rise in Covid cases in Africa that World Health Organization officials said Wednesday don’t represent
Dr. Leora Horwitz treats fewer and fewer Covid patients at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. Still, she thinks there are too many. And they almost all have something in common. “I’ve only had one patient who was vaccinated, and he was being treated for cancer with chemotherapy,” she said, reflecting recent research
A mobile Covid-19 vaccination centre outside Bolton Town Hall, Bolton, where case numbers of the Delta variant first identified in India have been relatively high. Peter Byrne | PA Images | Getty Images The delta Covid variant first detected in India has now spread to more than 80 countries, and it continues to mutate as
In this article BIIB The exterior of the headquarters of biotechnology company Biogen in Cambridge, MA is pictured on March 21, 2019. John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty Images A 70-year-old man from Rhode Island on Wednesday was the first to receive an infusion of Biogen‘s newly approved Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, outside of a
WASHINGTON — The shortage of school nurses, high prescription drug prices, mask mandates, and youth suicide were among the topics Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra encountered at a House Education and Labor Committee hearing Wednesday on the HHS budget request for fiscal year 2022. “We have a police officer in every school;
A quarter of the UK population screens positive for a potential injection phobia, raising concerns over COVID-19 vaccine uptake, study reveals In a new large scale study that surveyed just over 15,000 UK adults, a quarter of them presented as likely to experience injection phobia. The same group was twice as likely to report COVID-19
In this article TRIP A close-up of a man using an Apple iPad Mini tablet computer to research holiday destinations, January 17, 2013. Will Ireland | Future Publishing | Future | Getty Images Tripadvisor announced Wednesday the launch of Tripadvisor Plus, a travel subscription service that will provide U.S. customers with access to travel savings
In this article PFE Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla addresses a press conference after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the factory of U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Puurs, Belgium April 23, 2021. John Thys | Pool | Reuters Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC on Wednesday he expects life
The best treatment strategy for COVID-linked multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) remains unclear after dueling observational studies came to disparate conclusions. Starting treatment off with both IV immunoglobulin (IVIG) and glucocorticoids was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular dysfunction on or after day 2 compared with initial IVIG alone (17% vs 31%; risk
Comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors fared no better on targeted temperature management (TTM) than standard care for avoiding fever in the ICU, according to the TTM2 trial. There was no significant difference between the 50% incidence of all-cause death at 6 months among patients randomized to targeted hypothermia at 33°C (91.4°F) and the 48%
Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia who were treated with tofacitinib (Xeljanz) had a significantly lower incidence of death or respiratory failure than those treated with placebo, a randomized trial in Brazil found. Cumulative incidence of death or respiratory failure through day 28 was significantly lower in the tofacitinib group than in controls (18.1% vs 29.0%,
The use of artificial intelligence in creating radiation treatment plans for prostate cancer appeared to be a success, according to a blinded, head-to-head study. Overall, radiation oncologists considered the vast majority — 89 of 100 — of machine learning (ML)-generated plans clinically acceptable for treatment, reported Thomas Purdie, PhD, and colleagues at Princess Margaret Cancer
Secukinumab (Cosentyx), an interleukin-17A inhibitor, is effective and reasonably well tolerated for treatment of enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) and juvenile psoriatic arthritis (JPsA) in children and adolescents, according to a phase 3 trial presented at a late breaking abstracts session of the annual European Congress of Rheumatology. On the primary outcome of time to flare, the
Several different causes of aging have been discovered, but the question remains whether there are common underlying mechanisms that determine aging and lifespan. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging and the CECAD Cluster of Excellence in Aging research at the University Cologne have now come across folate metabolism in their search
Many cancer patients use alternative or complementary therapies in conjunction with their main course of treatment, but a new survey shows that many oncologists underestimate how many of their patients are using these types of therapies. It also appears that oncologists and patients disagree about how effective each type of alternative therapy may be. Complementary
People with “metabolically healthy obesity” are actually not healthy, since they are at increased risk for several adverse cardiometabolic outcomes, compared with people without obesity and or adverse metabolic profiles, new research suggests. The latest data on this controversial subject come from an analysis of nearly 400,000 people in the U.K. Biobank. Although the data also
Teen and adolescent mental health needs are at crisis levels in the wake of COVID-19, but more screening to prevent suicides won’t help without places to refer patients who seek help in emergency departments (EDs), experts told the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates on Monday. Pediatric emergency physician Samantha Rosman, MD, MPH, delegate
A self-administered Pap test may be a lifesaver for women in countries where there’s no alternative, but it’s a rarity in wealthy countries such as the United States. Unless you’re Black, it seems. “I’ve literally been in doctor’s offices where I’m there for a Pap smear and they wouldn’t even touch me,” a participant at
Even as the number of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop, the United States reached the 4-million mark for infected children, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. The total number of children with COVID-19 was 4,008,572 as of June 10 after just under 14,500 new cases
Credit: Southampton Clinical Trials Unit The first participants have taken part in a new research trial that aims to save lives by detecting lung cancer at an earlier stage when it is more treatable. People attending the NHS Targeted Lung Health Checks in Southampton are being invited to take part in the iDx Lung trial,
Bowel cancer cells under a microscope. People who have previously been treated for a type of bowel cancer that has spread to other parts of their body will now have another treatment option in England, following the approval of the combined use of nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) for these patients. The National Institute of
June 16, 2021 Audience: Consumer What safety concern is FDA announcing? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that symptoms such as headache, nausea, and dizziness can occur after applying alcohol-based hand sanitizers to the skin. These symptoms are likely to have occurred because of vapors from the hand sanitizer, potentially from exposure
To better understand the physiological processes that take place while infants sleep, a group of researchers from the University of Iowa studied the twitching movements of infants during REM sleep. More specifically, the researchers were interested in evaluating how these twitches contribute to the babies’ ability to coordinate their bodily movements. Sleeping Baby. Image Credit:
Talking about a virus is all a lot of us seem to be doing at the moment. We’re happy enough chatting away about COVID-19 and other common viruses like the cold or flu, so why is there so little conversation about HPV? You may have heard about HPV, human papillomavirus, as the virus linked to
Spring has sprung, and there is a sense of relief in the air. After one year of lockdowns and social distancing, more than 171 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the U.S. and about 19.4% of the population is fully vaccinated. But there is something else in the air: ominous SARS-CoV-2 variants. I
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