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Eating Mediterranean Diet May Help Reduce Effects of Stress
A new study, performed by scientists from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, finds that eating a Mediterranean diet may help reduce the physiological effects of stress and promote healthy aging. A team of researchers studied the effect of the diet on 38 middle-age...
Scientists Created Model to Reveal COVID-19 Superspreader Venues
Computer scientists and medical researchers from Stanford University and Northwestern University, USA, developed a new model that uses anonymized location data from cell phone networks to identify high-risk venues. It also may help to test alternative paths out of...
New Test Identifies Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Just One Hour
In recent research, scientists from Brigham Young University, UK, found a new way to complete the whole blood sampling and analysis process for the identification of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the blood that takes just 1 hour (instead of 24 hours of the...
Promising COVID-19 Vaccine Was 90% Effective in Phase 3 Trial
A new COVID-19 vaccine called BNT162b2, developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, was 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 infections in the final stage, Phase 3 trials, which are still going on. Phase 3 began in late July and included 43,538 participants of various ethnic...
Mouthwashes May Help Reduce Coronavirus Transmission
In a new study, published in the Journal of Medical Virology, scientists from the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, USA, found that several oral rinses and mouthwashes may cut the risk of coronavirus transmission from infected individuals. For the study, the...
Green Spaces May Lower Deaths from Heart Disease
Research, recently presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2020, finds that more green spaces such as trees, shrubs, and grasses, may improve air quality and reduce the number of deaths from heart disease. In the study, the scientists used...
Hard Physical Work Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia
A new study, led by scientists from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, finds that those men who once had a job involving tough physical work have a 1.5 times higher risk to develop dementia than those whose work was mostly sedentary. For the study, a team of...
Convalescent T Cells Could Protect People with Compromised Immunity
A new study, conducted by a team of researchers from Children’s National, suggests that an infusion of T cells, or immune cells, from people who have recovered from COVID-19, may protect people with compromised immune systems from the infection. The scientists...
Scientists Created Cough Detector Able to Identify COVID-19 Cases
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, have developed a cough detector model able to identify 97% of COVID-19 cases even in people without symptoms. The new device based on artificial intelligence technology can spot differences in coughing...
High-Sugar Diet May Damage the Gut and Increase Risk of Colitis
A new study, conducted by researchers from the UT Southwestern Medical Center, finds that a high-sugar diet can damage the gut and increase the risk of developing colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease. To examine the sugar effect on the gut, a team of...
Three Existing Drugs May Be Effective in Treating COVID-19
In a recent study, published in the journal ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, a team of scientists identified 3 previously available drugs that may be effective in treating COVID-19. In the study, the researchers used a ligand-based virtual screening...
Study Shows How A Virus May Trigger Diabetes
Recent research, published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, with the help of a mouse model has shown how coxsackievirus B type 4, a virus transmitted through the gastrointestinal system, can trigger diabetes in people. In this study, the researchers aimed to...
