Rabies in urban opossums signals health alert in São Paulo
A female White-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) found dead in 2021 in Bosque dos Jequitibás Park in the center of Campinas, one of the largest cities in São Paulo state, Brazil,…
Genetic mechanism shields bacterial communities from viral threats
Like humans struggling to get through the COVID-19 pandemic, bacterial cells need social distancing to thwart viruses.
Risk-reducing mastectomies lower breast cancer incidence and mortality in BRCA variant carriers
A study co-led by Professor Kelly Metcalfe of the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, and researchers at the Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit at Women's College Hospital, finds risk-reducing mastectomies…
Optimizing chemotherapy for older adults with advanced cancer
Standard chemotherapy regimens, which are mostly based on testing in relatively young and healthy patients, may do more harm to older adults with cancer who often struggle with other health…
Evaluating a machine learning tool for predicting hospital-acquired acute kidney injury
Hospital-acquired acute kidney injury (HA-AKI) is a common complication in hospitalized patients that can lead to chronic kidney disease and is associated with longer hospital stays, higher health care costs…
Unlocking the brain’s decision-making secrets for future insights
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found important clues to how people make choices involving obtaining information about the future.
FDA approves omalizumab for food allergy reactions based on NIH research
Today's Food and Drug Administration approval of a supplemental biologics license for the monoclonal antibody omalizumab (Xolair) highlights the vital role of the National Institutes of Health-supported research that underpins…
Lockdown delays in melanoma diagnosis cost Europe £6bn and thousands of lives
Delays in diagnosing melanoma due to Covid-19 lockdown may have contributed to over 100,000 years of life lost across Europe and over £6bn in costs, mainly indirectly due to loss…
Virginia Tech receives grant for improving rural wastewater pathogen detection
Testing wastewater to assess the spread of the COVID-19 virus became common and well-publicized during the pandemic, but it has been focused mostly on urban areas.
Study links finger length ratio to oxygen metabolism efficiency in athletes
The efficiency of oxygen supply to tissues is a factor in the severity of important diseases such as Covid-19 and heart conditions.