Will Your Smartphone Be the Next Doctor’s Office?
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(Oona Tempest/KHN) The same devices used to take selfies and type out tweets are being repurposed and commercialized for quick access to information needed for monitoring a patient’s health. A fingertip pressed against a phone’s camera lens can measure a heart rate. The microphone, kep…
Research Provides a Comprehensive Structural Framework to Design Safer Pain-Relieving Drugs
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In the continuing effort to improve upon opioid pain relievers, American and Chinese scientists used cryoEM technology to solve the detailed structures of the entire family of opioid receptors bound to their naturally occurring peptides. Subsequent structure-guided biochemical studies…
Research Review Suggests Long COVID May Last Indefinitely For Some People & Mimic Other Ailments
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Developing Mucosal Vaccines for Respiratory Viruses
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Media AdvisoryWednesday, January 11, 2023Developing mucosal vaccines for respiratory viruses NIH experts offer perspective on next-generation approaches. What Vaccines that provide long-lasting protection against influenza, coronaviruses and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have proved …
A Unique Window Into "Original Antigenic Sin" - News
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A legendary virologist coined the term Original Antigenic Sin to reflect his frustration with the body’s bias against the first flu strain it encounters (iStock). Our immune systems react most strongly to the viral strains we encountered in our childhoods. Scientists call this original antig…
Is It Bad to Drink Coffee on an Empty Stomach?
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Outside of the gut, the caffeine from coffee is well known to increase heart rate and blood pressure. And if you drink it too close to bedtime, it can disrupt your sleep. But these changes are temporary, Dr. Cryer said.Will increased stomach acid cause any issues?Drinking coffee on an empty stomach…
New Research Identifies a Potential Treatment Target for Hepatoblastoma, The Most Common Liver Cancer in Children
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Newswise — Philadelphia, January 16, 2023 – Although rare compared to adult liver cancers, hepatoblastoma is the most common pediatric liver malignancy, and its incidence is increasing. In this novel study appearing in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, investigators studyin…
Nanotechnology May Improve Gene Therapy for Blindness
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Oregon Health & Science University’s Casey Eye Institute clinicians provide Luxturna, an FDA-approved gene therapy to correct blindness-causing mutations to the RPE65 gene, during a Sept. 17, 2018, surgery. Today, OHSU and Oregon State University researchers are developing a new approach to g…
Durable SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Bind to Two Viral Targets at Once
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LA JOLLA, CA—A new study led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) shows how ideal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 hit their marks. That’s right: marks. Instead of targeting a single binding site on the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein, these powerful antibodies bind to two of thes…
Quality of Treatment for Lung Cancer Varies Widely Across the U.S.
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Visit the News Hub Quality of treatment for lung cancer varies widely across US Researchers identify measures to improve treatment quality, health outcomes Tim Parker A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that the quality of care for lung canc…