Wildfire smoke may greatly increase susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to new research from the Center for Genomic Medicine at the Desert Research Institute (DRI), Washoe County Health District (WCHD), and Renown Health (Renown) in Reno,…
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Research provides insights into why COVID-19 patients develop severe blood clots
Scientists have identified how and why some Covid-19 patients can develop life-threatening clots, which could lead to targeted therapies that prevent this from happening. The work, led by researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, is published in…
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Children of well-educated parents survive more often than others
Every day, around 15000 children under the age of five die from causes that could have been prevented. But the children of highly educated parents survive more often than others. This statistic applies worldwide, according to a newly published sweeping…
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Innovative platform enhances surgical team experience during a trauma simulation
Simulators have long been used for training surgeons and surgical teams, but traditional simulator platforms typically have a built-in limitation: they often simulate one or a limited number of conditions that require performance of isolated tasks, such as placing an…
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VirtaMed appoints Andy Weymann, MD, MBA, to Board of Directors
June 1, 2021, Zurich, Switzerland: VirtaMed, the world leader in medical simulation training, has added Andy Weymann to its board of directors. With more than 25 years of experience working in the medical device and biotech/pharma industry and as an…
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Philly CEAL team receives NIH grant to extend COVID-19 outreach
José A. Bauermeister, PhD, and Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, are leading one of 10 new research teams from across the country that received National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants totaling $14 million to extend the reach of the NIH's Community…
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Protein intake is more important than protein source to gain muscle strength and mass
Protein intake is more important than protein source if the goal is to gain muscle strength and mass. This is the key finding of a study that compared the effects of strength training in volunteers with a vegan or omnivorous…
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Screen time entertainment adversely affects the eating habits of children, adolescents
The time children and adolescents spend on screen time entertainment -computers, mobile phones, television and video games- adversely affects their eating habits. This is the main conclusion drawn from a research carried out by EpiPHAAN (Epidemiology, Physical Activity, Accelerometry and…
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Higher education levels linked to greater well-being for Australian women, survey shows
Higher education levels are linked to higher levels of well-being for Australian women, according to a study published March 24, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Dai Binh Tran and colleagues from Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam. There’s conflicting evidence…
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Virtual reality experiences can be used to train professionals in organ donation and transplants
The Donation and Transplantation Institute (DTI) and Immersium Studio, a UOC spin-off, have developed virtual reality experiences that can be used to train health professionals in the area of organ and tissue donation and transplantation. The contents include interviews with…
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