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Released: 7-Apr-2021 11:00 AM EDT
Story Tips from Johns Hopkins Experts on COVID-19
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Coping with childhood anxiety amid returning to the classroom; new global tracker measures pandemic's impact on education worldwide; Covid-19 drives innovation and evolution in patient care...

Released: 7-Apr-2021 9:00 AM EDT
Michigan Medicine Helps Lead National Study on How Highly Allergic People React to Covid 19 Vaccine
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Researchers at Michigan Medicine are helping lead the first national study of how highly allergic people react to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The trial, co-led by a U-M immunologist, will cover over 3,000 participants receiving the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines at up to 35 academic allergy research centers across the United States.

Released: 7-Apr-2021 9:00 AM EDT
Caught in the act: New data about COVID-19 virus’s functions could aid in treatment designs
Argonne National Laboratory

For the first time, a team of researchers has captured X-ray images of a critical enzyme of the COVID-19 virus performing its function. This discovery could improve design of new treatments against the disease.

   
5-Apr-2021 12:55 PM EDT
Study Examines Antibody Response to COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients with Kidney Failure
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

• Most patients with kidney failure who were undergoing hemodialysis developed a positive antibody response after being vaccinated for COVID-19, but their response was lower than that of individuals without kidney disease.

Released: 6-Apr-2021 8:55 AM EDT
Chula Successfully Trains the First “Sniffer Dogs to Find People Infected with COVID-19” in Thailand
Chulalongkorn University

Chulalongkorn Veterinary Science (CUVET) unveils its latest effort in training a pack of sniffer dogs to detect people with COVID–19. The project first six reached 95% accuracy, and are ready for duty at airports in support of the normal screening process.

   
Released: 6-Apr-2021 8:00 AM EDT
COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights the Urgent Global Need to Control Air Pollution
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

A new commentary published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society provides an exhaustive examination of published research that discusses whether air pollution may be linked to worse COVID-19 outcomes. The studies that the authors examined look at several potential disease mechanisms, and also at the relationship between pollution, respiratory viruses and health disparities.

Released: 6-Apr-2021 8:00 AM EDT
Winners announced in second round of theKidneyX COVID-19 Kidney Care Challenge
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

Today, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) announced seven winners in Round 2 of the KidneyX COVID-19 Kidney Care Challenge. From December to January, healthcare providers, dialysis centers, nonprofit health systems, and other entrants submitted solutions that could reduce the transmission of coronavirus among people with kidney disease and/or reduce the risk of kidney damage among people who contract the virus.

Released: 5-Apr-2021 4:40 PM EDT
Rutgers Begins COVID-19 Prevalence Study in Newark
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers will help determine the prevalence of the coronavirus in Newark, one of the cities hardest hit by the pandemic, as part of the National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) response to the deadly global outbreak.

   
Released: 5-Apr-2021 4:05 PM EDT
RADx diversifies COVID-19 test portfolio with four new contracts, including one to detect variants
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

NIH has awarded four additional contracts for the development and scaled-up manufacturing of new COVID-19 diagnostic testing technologies through its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Tech (RADx) initiative. The awards total $29.3 million and will help increase testing capacity for COVID-19.

   
31-Mar-2021 2:45 PM EDT
Health Policy Researchers Propose Filling Health Care Coverage Gap to Help ‘Near Poor’
Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh

“Near-poor” Americans – people just above the federal poverty level but still well below the average U.S. income – who rely on Medicare for health insurance face high medical bills and may forgo essential health care, according to new research.

Released: 5-Apr-2021 3:35 PM EDT
Like Asbestos, Do Carbon Nanotubes Have Potential Health Risks?
Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO)

A new study examines the recent literature on carbon nanotubes toxicity highlighting their strong inflammatory potential for the respiratory system.

Released: 5-Apr-2021 3:05 PM EDT
EMS workers 3 times more likely to experience mental health issues
Syracuse University

Emergency medical service (EMS) workers face triple the risk for significant mental health problems such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder compared to the general population, according to a recently published study by researchers from Syracuse University.

   
Released: 5-Apr-2021 2:45 PM EDT
Public trust in the CDC falls during coronavirus pandemic
RAND Corporation

Public trust in the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fallen during the coronavirus pandemic, with the decline bringing overall population-level trust in the agency to the same lower level of trust long held by Black Americans about the agency, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

   
5-Apr-2021 9:00 AM EDT
Mount Sinai Health System Launches COVID-19 Saliva Testing Program to Protect Public Health as Business and Leisure Activities Reopen
Mount Sinai Health System

Program, an official partner of the New York State Excelsior Pass program, offers fast and accurate testing

Released: 2-Apr-2021 3:15 PM EDT
Atlantic Health System introduces rapid test for COVID-19 variants
Atlantic Health System

Atlantic Health System is among the first hospitals in the region to be able to rapidly screen for key viral variants, a key advance for public health amid the pandemic.

Released: 2-Apr-2021 2:30 PM EDT
Tip Sheet: New COVID-19 transmission study, returning to school, video of biorepositories — and a new weight loss study
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

SEATTLE —  April 2, 2021 — Below are summaries of recent Fred Hutch research findings and other news. April is National Minority Health Month, with a focus on the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color. See more details below on related Fred Hutch programming.Save the date for our monthly public science event, “Science Says” on Tuesday, April 27.

Released: 2-Apr-2021 12:50 PM EDT
Experimental Therapy for Parasitic Heart Disease May Also Help Stop COVID-19
UC San Diego Health

UC San Diego researchers found that the chemical inhibitor K777 reduces the coronavirus’ ability to infect cell lines by blocking human enzyme cathepsin L; clinical trials are underway.

Released: 2-Apr-2021 10:25 AM EDT
Criteria for selecting COVID-19 patients for lung transplantation
Medical University of Vienna (MedUni Wien)

In May 2020, a team led by thoracic surgeon Konrad Hoetzenecker of the Department of Surgery of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital performed a lung transplant on a 44-year-old patient who had been seriously ill with Covid-19, making her the first patient in Europe to receive a lung transplant for this indication.

Released: 1-Apr-2021 8:05 PM EDT
COVID-19 Survivors Might Need Just One Dose of Two-Part Vaccine
Cedars-Sinai

A single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for individuals who previously had COVID-19 generates an immunologic response similar to that of individuals receiving the two-dose recommended sequence, according to a Cedars-Sinai study published today by the journal Nature Medicine.



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