In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors in Wuhan noticed something surprising. Many of the elderly patients who
Month: August 2021
Cuba approves two more locally made COVID vaccines
Cuba on Friday approved two more domestic COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use, the island nation’s medication regulatory body said. The
A model to predict non-small cell lung cancer patient outcomes to immunotherapy
Immunotherapy agents that inhibit the molecules PD1, PD-L1 or CTLA-4 have become widely used in clinical practice to treat non-small
Mindfulness may improve cognition in older adults
Mindfulness may provide modest benefits to cognition, particularly among older adults, finds a new review of evidence led by UCL
Distress signal from fat cells prompts heart to shore up defenses against consequences of obesity
A stress signal received by the heart from fat could help protect against cardiac damage induced by obesity, a new
Symptoms, like pain and fatigue, often cluster in newly diagnosed multiple sclerosis
A recent Michigan Medicine study found that people newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis experience a myriad of significant symptoms that
Antibody protects against broad range of COVID-19 virus variants
The virus that causes COVID-19 today is not the same as the one that first sickened people way back in
Genomic markers of aggressive childhood leukemias identified
New research published today in JAMA Oncology reports how two separate DNA changes appear to predict aggressive childhood leukemias when they occur
Understanding the variability in responses to COVID-19 illness in older adults
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2019, more than 200 million people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2,
Current focus on preventing youth vaping could hinder adults’ efforts to stop smoking
Considerable evidence suggests that e-cigarettes are an effective smoking-cessation tool for adults in the United States, where hundreds of thousands
