Medical
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Biden Will Keep Dr Francis Collins as National Institutes of Health Director: Statement
US President-elect Joe Biden will keep Dr Francis Collins as head of the National Institutes of Health, his transition team said in a press release...
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Brazil Airlifts Emergency Oxygen In, Sick Babies Out of Pandemic-Battered Manaus
Brazil's Air Force delivered emergency supplies of oxygen on Friday to the jungle state of Amazonas, and premature babies were to be airlifted to...
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Type of Alzheimer's With Intact Memory Offers New Research Paths
Patients with primary progressive aphasia-associated Alzheimer's seem to be more resilient to effects of neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, a...
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California Urges Stop to 300K COVID-19 Vaccines After Some Fall Ill
California's state epidemiologist is urging a halt to more than 300,000 coronavirus vaccinations using a Moderna vaccine version because some...
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Repeated Ketamine Infusions Linked to Rapid Relief of PTSD
In what investigators call the first randomized controlled trial of repeated ketamine infusion for chronic PTSD, the treatment was associated with...
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TRILUMINATE in Print: TriClip's Promise Awaits Further Validation
Single-center results look promising, but observers say randomized data are needed to firmly establish transcatheter tricuspid repair and to...
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Imagio Opto-Acoustic Imaging for Breast Lesions FDA Approved
Seno Medical, a San Antonio, Texas firm, has won FDA approval to introduce its Imagio device that utilizes opto-acoustic imaging to help...
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Medical Gadgets at This Year’s CES 2021
CES 2021 took place this past week, but due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the annual electronics megashow show was completely...
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New coronavirus strain found in more than one-third of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles
A new strain of the coronavirus has been found in more than one-third of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles and may be contributing to the acceleration...
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Compulsory DNA collection is unethical and has a detrimental effect on genetics research
The compulsory collection of DNA being undertaken in some parts of the world is not just unethical, but risks affecting people's willingness to...
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Cell Free Nucleic Acid Extraction
The cfPure® Cell Free DNA Extraction Kit from AMSBIO is a magnetic bead-based DNA extraction kit designed to isolate circulating cell free DNA...
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Magnetic nanoparticles guide neurite growth in dopaminergic cells
Magnetic nanoparticles raise hopes of treatments for Parkinson’s.
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RECoVERY: New open-source software developed for analyzing SARS-CoV-2 genomes
Researchers report an open-source platform-independent tool for building SARS-CoV-2 genomes from raw sequencing reads. The tool can be used without...
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Gene-cutting system may play second role as a genetic dimmer switch
In a series of experiments with laboratory-cultured bacteria, Johns Hopkins scientists have found evidence that there is a second role for the...
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Kruppel-like factor 2 may be a major determinant of acute respiratory distress syndrome in COVID-19 patients
A study conducted at the University of Chicago, USA, has recently revealed that downregulation of an endothelial transcription factor, Kruppel-like...
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Lower CD4 T cell reactivity to seasonal coronaviruses found in healthcare workers with COVID-19
A new study by US-based researchers describes the results of a study on the immune response among healthcare workers, in particular, their T cell...
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Large study finds SARS-CoV-2 viral load is lowest in children
A new study by researchers in the Netherlands confirms the hypothesis that for SARS-CoV-2 infection, higher age is associated with increased viral...
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Are antibiotic regimens for critical COVID-19 patients with bacterial superinfection unnecessarily high?
A new study by researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA, shows that antibiotic regimens for critically ill COVID-19...
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STAT+: After Moderna’s medical miracle, some investors step back
Moderna performed a miracle last year: The Cambridge biotech company, which hadn’t put a product on the market since it was founded in...
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STAT+: STAT+ Conversations: What to watch in a Biden White House and a new Congress
Editor’s note: A livestream of th e conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. E very week, STAT+ subscribers get access...
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: U.S. health officials seek more use of Covid-19 antibody drugs; Pfizer to reduce vaccine supplies to Europe
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was somehow relaxing and invigorating, despite the...
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Small biotech launches human trials of a potential ‘backstop’ for Covid-19 vaccines
A small biotechnology firm said that it will start human testing of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine it hopes can target potential strains of the...
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What we now know — and don’t know — about the coronavirus variants
The coronavirus variants are, in a word, confusing. By now, you have likely heard about different variants that first raised trouble in the...
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Covid-19 vaccine guidance for those who are lactating is based on faulty assumptions, experts say
Maggie Anthony didn’t have much time to deliberate before getting her Covid-19 vaccine. A labor and delivery nurse at Cambridge Hospital...
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STAT+: Family medicine residents don’t interact with pharma as much as they once did
Amid concerns about pharmaceutical industry influence on physicians, a new survey finds fewer family medicine residents are interacting with drug...