New possibilities to prevent sudden cardiac death
An assistant professor of biomedical sciences has developed a better understanding of the pathological characteristics…
Month: February 2021
Pregnancy tied to estimated 70% higher COVID-19 rate – CIDRAP
Pregnancy tied to estimated 70% higher COVID-19 rate CIDRAP Where The Recommendation Stands For Pregnant Women…
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NIH funds study to evaluate remdesivir for COVID-19 in pregnancy – National Institutes of Health
NIH funds study to evaluate remdesivir for COVID-19 in pregnancy National Institutes of Health Read Original…
The Bleak Reality of Having a Juvenile Record
The post The Bleak Reality of Having a Juvenile Record appeared first on and belongs…
News in Brief 17 February 2021
UNICEF chief calls for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for most vulnerable COVID infections register…
Wolves, dogs and dingoes, oh my
Dogs are generally considered the first domesticated animal, while its ancestor is generally considered to…
Identifying ‘ugly ducklings’ to catch skin cancer earlier
A deep learning-based system enables dermatologist-level identification of suspicious skin lesions from smartphone photos, allowing…
Complementary And Alternative Medicine Market Size Worth $404.66 Billion By 2028: Grand View Research, Inc. – PRNewswire
Complementary And Alternative Medicine Market Size Worth $404.66 Billion By 2028: Grand View Research, Inc. PRNewswire…
In lab experiment, Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine less potent against coronavirus variant
The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine loses some potency against the coronavirus variant that first appeared in…
Biden to nominate Brooks-LaSure to oversee CMS
WASHINGTON — President Biden plans to nominate Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, a health policy consultant and veteran…
Strengthen ‘One Health approach’ to prevent future pandemics – WHO chief
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates “intimate” linkages between the health of humans, animals and ecosystems, as…
New highly radioactive particles found in Fukushima
The 10 year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident occurs in March. Recent work…
How the ‘noise’ in our brain influences our behavior
The brain’s neural activity is irregular, changing from one moment to the next. To date,…
New tech aims to tackle ‘disseminated intravascular coagulation’ blood disorder
Researchers have developed a new tool for addressing disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) – a blood…
Scientists develop blood test to predict environmental harms to children
Scientists have developed a method using a DNA biomarker to easily screen pregnant women for…
Genotoxic E. coli ‘caught in the act’
Researchers reveal transformation of colon organoids in vitro. Escherichia coli bacteria are constitutive members of…
Unintended consequences of state, opioid policies
Study reveals the unintended and negative consequences of policies designed to reduce the supply of…
Researchers uncover altered brain connectivity after prolonged anesthesia
A body of evidence supports the association between prolonged anesthesia and cognitive impairment, but a…
Study links prolonged sedentary time to distractibility in adults with obesity, overweight
Scientists used accelerometers to track daily activity levels for a week in 89 adults with…
COVID-19 vaccination ‘wildly uneven and unfair’: UN Secretary-General
International partners working to achieve equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines appealed on Wednesday for the…
‘Triple threat’ adds to long-standing crises menacing food security in Somalia – FAO
Poor rainfall, flooding and desert locusts are contributing to extreme food insecurity in Somalia, threating…
On the quest for other Earths
An international research team has developed a new method for directly imaging smaller planets in…
Climate change and fire suppression
The unprecedented and deadly blazes that engulfed the American West in 2020 attest to the…
One in five has a mutation that provides superior resilience to cold
Almost one in five people lacks the protein alpha-actinin-3 in their muscle fiber. Researchers now…
Why herd immunity may be impossible without vaccinating children against COVID-19
It may be summer before children under 16 can be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the…
World’s oldest DNA reveals how mammoths evolved
An international team has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains that are up to 1.2…
Covid-19: Self-isolation is the weakest link in stopping transmission
At last the weakest link in the chain of covid-19 transmission—self-isolation—is getting the attention it…
Opinion: Listen: The inaugural First Opinion Podcast: Jay Baruch on writing about medicine
It’s now official. We’ve launched “The First Opinion Podcast.” In the inaugural episode, I talk…
Opinion: Listen: Lauren Powell on the intersection of Covid-19 and racism
In the second episode of STAT’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I spoke with Lauren Powell, the…
Lewis Wolpert: developmental biologist who raised the public profile of mental illness
bmj;372/feb17_12/n441/FAF1faPhoto credit: ShutterstockThe developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert was a polymath with forthright views on everything…
COVID infections drop 16% worldwide in one week: WHO
In its latest update on the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that although the number of gobal infections have fallen by 16 per cent in a week – 500,000 fewer cases – regions, including Europe, are still in…
Crocodile evolution rebooted by Ice Age glaciations
Crocodiles are resilient animals from a lineage that has survived for over 200 million years….
STAT+: Pharmalittle: First Covid-19 human challenge study to begin; vaccine firm executives profit from insider stock sales
Top of the morning to you. Another busy day is unfolding here on the Pharmalot…
Bruises in art work detail abuse directed at healthcare staff
bmj;372/feb17_10/n451/FAF1faArtist Nathan Wyburn (pictured) has used examples of verbal abuse directed at NHS staff to…
Doctors reȷect claim that US “no longer has a prescription opioid driven epidemic”
A group of US doctors that advocates for more cautious opioid prescribing has rebutted the…
Urology surgeon faces GMC charges of inappropriate treatments for financial gain
A consultant surgeon faces accusations by the General Medical Council (GMC) of administering inappropriate cancer…
STAT+: Cancer cases place Bluebird Bio’s gene therapy business at a crossroads, and might drag the entire field along
Bluebird Bio’s disclosure Tuesday that two additional patients being treated with its gene therapy for…
Covid-19: Scotland failed to apply measures identified in pre-pandemic exercises, says report
The health service in Scotland should have been better prepared to respond to some of…
Covid-19: Extra 1.7 million people in England are asked to shield
An extra 1.7 million people in England will be added to the list of those…
Every UK hospital should have a respiratory support unit, say doctors
Doctors from the British Thoracic Society are calling for the NHS to officially recognise, roll…
David Oliver: Lack of PPE betrays NHS clinical staff
The failure to provide adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to health and social care workers…
Beware of the bleeding nodule
This is a lesion of the post-auricular area in a man in his 50s (fig…
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Covid-19: NHS trusts deny restricting PPE during pandemic
NHS trusts have denied issuing instructions to staff to restrict their use of personal protective…
Partha Kar: Losing one’s faith in leaders
It’s awkward—really awkward—to look back at something you’ve written and realise it hasn’t aged well….
Opinion: Ultra-rare but not forgotten: New drug development paradigms to treat the rarest of diseases
In addition to the most visible effects of Covid-19 — tragic deaths, lingering illness, economic…
Opinion: What cancer survivorship can teach us about Covid-19
Take it from this cancer survivor: We need to start focusing on Covid-19 survivorship now….
The new leader of 500 Women Scientists on finding community and supporting women of color in STEMM
In the spring of 2019, Lauren Edwards was a graduate student studying neuroscience at Emory…
STAT+: Backed by big hospitals, a former Microsoft executive wades into the messy business of selling patient data
He was once dubbed “the most important man at Microsoft,” a prodigiously talented software engineer…
The myth of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Covid vaccines: Why false perceptions overlook facts, and could breed resentment
Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization’s health emergencies director, had a conversation recently with his…
Novartis and the Gates Foundation aim to create a more practical gene therapy for sickle cell patients around the world
Novartis and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are joining forces to discover and develop…