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Month: May 2020
News in Brief 4 May 2020
None of us is safe until we all are, says UN chief at EU push…
COVID-19 has unmasked significant health disparities in the U.S.
The COVID-19 pandemic has unmasked longstanding racial and ethnic health-related disparities, according to a new…
Increasing Fiber Intake is a Highly Ignored Therapy to Lower LDL Naturally
In the world of ever-increasing numbers of sophisticated, expensive cholesterol-lowering treatments, there’s one highly effective,…
Why Do Some People Experience Depression During the Holidays?
The holidays can be a time of emotional highs, but also lows. It’s not uncommon…
Surprising Cocoa Benefits May Include Heart Health and Prediabetes Improvement
In our post Chocolate Benefits for Your Brain, you learned about the phytochemicals in dark…
What Is Leptin? It May Be the Key to Unlocking Fat Loss
Officially discovered in 1994, leptin is a hormone that has quickly become known as a…
Is Krill Oil Better than Fish Oil for Lowering Triglycerides?
The omega-3 fatty acids found in fish and seafood lower triglyceride levels and offer a…
Multiple flooding sources threaten Honolulu’s infrastructure
Researchers found in the next few decades, sea level rise will likely cause large and…
Engineers demonstrate next-generation solar cells can take the heat, maintain efficiency
Engineers have developed a next-generation solar cell that takes advantage of the promising elctro-optical properties…
New insight on maternal infections and neurodevelopmental disorders
The immune responses of a female mouse before pregnancy can predict how likely her offspring…
Exoplanets: How we’ll search for signs of life
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has provided a framework called a ‘detectability index’ to help…
UN health agency hails 7.4 billion Euro pledge for COVID-19 treatments
World leaders on Monday pledged 7.4 billion Euros to support research and development for medicines…
How many jobs do robots really replace?
In many parts of the U.S., robots have been replacing workers over the last few…
STAT Plus: Orphan drugs improve health — but aren’t priced cost-effectively, study finds
As regulators approve a growing number of orphan drugs, prices for these medicines, which treat small…
Dawn of good, fast and cheap human genome assembly
Researchers are driving advances in human genome assembly to make the process better, faster, and…
Press freedom critical to countering COVID-19 ‘pandemic of misinformation’: UN chief
Journalists are key to countering the “dangerous outbreak of misinformation” accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic, the…
Climate change increases risk of fisheries conflict
A team of experts examined how climate change is affecting the ocean environment and found…
Viruses from feces can help combat obesity and diabetes
Fecal transplants are currently used to treat certain types of antibiotic-resistant diarrhea and has also…
Chronic illness in childhood linked to higher rates of mental illness
Children with long-term health conditions may be more likely to experience mental illness in early…
Predators help prey adapt to an uncertain future
What effect does extinction of species have on the evolution of surviving species? Evolutionary biologists…
Foraging Drosophila flies are open for new microbial partners
Scientists have found that vinegar flies do not necessarily prefer yeasts from their natural environments,…
How to put neurons into cages
Football-shaped microscale cages have been created using special laser technologies. Using sound waves as tweezers,…
Biomaterial immune control discoveries could reduce implant rejection
Scientists have discovered how the materials used in medical implants like artificial joints can be…
When natural disasters strike locally, urban networks spread the damage globally
Disasters that occur in one place can trigger costs in cities across the world due…
Arctic ‘shorefast’ sea ice threatened by climate change
A new study shows that coastal sea ice used by Arctic residents for hunting and…
Smart use of genomic data needed in species conservation
A ‘step-change’ in conservation is needed in order to help save species from extinction in…
Malaria risk is highest in early evening
Wide-scale use of insecticide-treated bed nets has led to substantial declines in global incidences of…
Covid-19: Doctors face shortages of vital drugs, gases, and therapeutics, survey finds
Shortages of items such as antibiotics, anaesthetic drugs, and painkillers have forced doctors to offer…
None of us is safe until we all are, says UN chief at EU push to end COVID-19 pandemic
The “most massive public health effort in history” is needed to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Last supper: Fish use sharp barbs and spines to fight off hungry seals
Research reveals the steep price some marine mammals are willing to pay for food, after…
Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18
For the first time, labs around the world can 3D print their own precision microscopes,…
Pacific oysters may not contain as many microplastics as previously thought
Researchers have discovered that the abundance of tiny microplastic contaminants in Pacific oysters from the…
Magnetic pulses alter salmon’s orientation, suggesting navigation via magnetite in tissue
Researchers have taken a step closer to solving one of nature’s most remarkable mysteries: How…
Breakthrough in molecular machines
Molecular machines have the potential to revolutionize the future — if we can find a…
Developing a vaccine for covid-19
The rapidly developing covid-19 epidemic has stimulated an enormous effort to develop vaccines against the…
Covid-19: skin damage with prolonged wear of FFP3 masks
Sayburn refers to Public Health England guidance recommending the use of FFP3 masks when performing…
Opinion: Collateral damage occurs when doctors and patients wear ‘Covid-19 blinders’
My friend Mina had a stroke at home while an infectious disease pandemic raged around…
Covid-19: NHS bosses told to assess risk to ethnic minority staff who may be at greater risk
NHS leaders in England have been told to “risk-assess” and make “appropriate arrangements” to protect…
STAT Plus: With coronavirus pandemic, venture capitalists are taking extra precautions
Venture capital firms have billions of bucks in their bank accounts. In just the past…
Sixty seconds on . . . the contact tracing app
Another NHS app?I know it seems like we’re hearing about a new one every week…
Women’s heart attack symptoms are not all that different
The top three heart attack symptoms in both women and men are chest pain, sweating,…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Roche wins emergency use nod for coronavirus antibody test; blood pressure drugs don’t raise infection risk
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite —…
Scientists take a step closer to heat-tolerant wheat
Researchers working on molecular-level responses in crops have taken a step closer to their goal…
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Covid-19: UK needs flexible local plans to come out of lockdown, say public health experts
Local plans tailored to different parts of the UK rather than a centralised and one-size-fits-all…
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Covid-19: Deprived areas have the highest death rates in England and Wales
The UK’s Office for National Statistics has published new figures showing deaths involving covid-19 by…
Covid-19: Confidentiality agreements allow antibody test manufacturers to withhold evaluation results
Commercial agreements between the UK government and manufacturers of covid-19 antibody tests are allowing the…
The positive effects of covid-19
Doctors and researchers are noticing some curious and unexpectedly positive side effects of the abrupt…
Preventing psychological injury during the covid-19 pandemic
Greenberg and colleagues rightly state that the development of psychological injury is “influenced by the…
Covid-19: Coroners needn’t investigate PPE policy failures in deaths of NHS staff, new guidance says
Coroners have been issued with new guidance on covid-19 deaths steering them away from investigating…