CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER IMAGE: THE ENTRANCE TO CEDARS-SINAI’S RUTH AND HARRY ROMAN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT.v LOS ANGELES (Oct. 12, 2020) — A new study shows that the vast majority of patients who visited the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai with suspected COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) symptoms, and who were treated and sent home to recuperate, recovered within...
“OUR FINDINGS SIGNAL THAT A PREVIOUS INFECTION MAY NOT NECESSARILY PROTECT AGAINST FUTURE INFECTION.” BY DAN ROBITZSKI A new case report of a Nevada man catching COVID-19 a second time, after he had already recovered, highlights how little we understand about resistance and immunity to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The 25-year-old man first caught...
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL BOSTON – An early resiliency intervention program for survivors of acute brain injury and their caregivers has shown clinically significant improvement in emotional distress, according to a study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Published in JAMA Network Open, the study found that the program, known as Recovering Together, achieved measurable reductions in depression, anxiety...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES IMAGE: JAMIE FEUSNER FINDINGS UCLA scientists and colleagues studying the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) discovered an abnormality in the brains of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that may help to predict who is most likely to respond to CBT. Researchers used functional MRI scans...
A new crystal form of insecticide is much more effective at fighting mosquitoes and malaria, researchers report. Using a simple process of heating and cooling, the researchers created a new crystal form of deltamethrin—a common insecticide used to control malaria—that is up to 12 times more effective against mosquitoes than the existing form. The findings...
by NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre A pharmacist-led, new digital intervention that improves patient safety when prescribing medication in general practice reduced rates of hazardous prescribing by more than 40 percent, 12 months after it had been introduced to 43 GP practices in Salford, finds a new study. Due to its success, plans are underway to...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, Nankai University and the University of California, Berkeley, has found that the cellular substrates that underlie two types of thirst could be identified using a certain kind of cell-type mapping. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group...
by Alzheimers Research UK Research published in the journal Neurology suggests those who lack interest in the world around them are at an increased risk of developing dementia. The research team looked to see whether developing dementia was linked to apathy. People with apathy often have a lack of interest in the world around them, with signs...
by Walt Mills, Pennsylvania State University Convergence of machine learning and dynamic laser speckle imaging to monitor bacterial motion enables rapid and accurate identification of antibiotic resistance and the minimum drug dosage needed to inhibit bacterial growth. A rapid and simple method for testing the efficacy of antibacterial drugs on infectious microbes has been developed and...
ELEVATED SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS LA JOLLA, Calif. (October 15, 2020) — Cannabidiol (CBD) is a chemical found in hemp or marijuana plants that does not make users high. Despite CBD only being approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat rare forms of childhood epilepsy, CBD has been widely marketed as a cure-all under the auspices of...
