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New single-payer bill intensifies Newsom’s political peril

A group of Democratic state lawmakers introduced legislation Friday to create a single-payer health care system to cover all Californians, immediately defining the biggest health policy debate of the year and putting enormous political pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom.

19 Feb 2021

Spurred by pandemic, Little Shell Tribe fast-tracks its health service debut

Linda Watson draped a sweater with the words "Little Shell Chippewa Tribe" over her as she received the newly recognized tribal nation's first dose of covid-19 vaccine.

19 Feb 2021

Study: American values and activities have changed dramatically during COVID-19

American values, attitudes, and activities have changed dramatically during COVID-19, according to a new study of online behavior.

19 Feb 2021

Researchers develop new tool to decipher cellular conversations

An interdisciplinary team of biologists and mathematicians at the University of California, Irvine has developed a new tool to help decipher the language cells use to communicate with one another.

18 Feb 2021

Study shows positive correlation between cardiorespiratory fitness and cognitive health in preschoolers

Researchers report that 4-6-year-old children who walk further than their peers during a timed test - a method used to estimate cardiorespiratory health - also do better on cognitive tests and other measures of brain function.

18 Feb 2021

Bay Area cities go to war over gas stoves in homes and restaurants

San Francisco restaurant owners, already simmering over covid-19 restrictions, are ready to boil over because of a city ban on natural gas stoves in new buildings that takes effect in June.

17 Feb 2021

Drastic population collapse in Central Africa was caused by prolonged disease epidemic, indicates study

A new study published in the journal Science Advances shows that Bantu-speaking communities in the Congo rainforest underwent a major population collapse from 1600 to 1400 years ago, probably due to a prolonged disease epidemic, and that significant resettlement did not restart until around 1000 years ago.

16 Feb 2021

Detection of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant in New York

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have developed a software tool called "Variant Database" that has detected an emerging lineage of severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolates in New York.

16 Feb 2021

Study finds high COVID-19 infection rates in pregnant women

The COVID-19 infection rate among pregnant women was estimated to be 70% higher than in similarly aged adults in Washington state, according to a new study published today in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

16 Feb 2021

Scientists study how a single gene alteration may have separated modern humans from extinct hominins

As a professor of pediatrics and cellular and molecular medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Alysson R. Muotri, PhD, has long studied how the brain develops and what goes wrong in neurological disorders.

15 Feb 2021

Researchers detect signs of depression in Spanish tweets

Researchers of the Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) from UPF and Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) in Barcelona, Spain, have identified behavioural and linguistic changes in tweets in Spanish published by users suffering from depression and who are taking medication to treat this disease.

15 Feb 2021

Akkure Genomics raises €1.2 million to accelerate roll-out of its next-generation clinical trials platform

Akkure Genomics, an Irish digital health scaleup which is developing a disruptive MedTech platform for the global clinical trials industry, has raised just over €1.2 million in a crowdfunding campaign from 318 investors.

13 Feb 2021

Study: Neuron structures are dissimilar between the brain areas in every individual

It was reported that the volume of the brain areas such as the superior temporal gyrus and anterior cingulate cortex reduces in schizophrenia but a precise change of three-dimensional structure of neuron has remained unclear.

11 Feb 2021

Mediterranean diet may have benefits for cognitive functioning in later life

People who eat a Mediterranean-style diet--particularly one rich in green leafy vegetables and low in meat--are more likely to stay mentally sharp in later life, a study shows.

10 Feb 2021

Taking Advantage of Measuring Molecular Collisional Cross-Sections in Pharma

News-Medical talks to Mike Greig, Director of Pharma at Bruker, about why measuring collisional cross-sections is beneficial to developing new drugs.

From Bruker Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry 10 Feb 2021

Researchers summarize underlying mechanisms and applications of sonoporation in cellular regulation

Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this review article the authors Yue Li, Zhiyi Chen and Shuping Ge from First Affiliated Hospital of University of South China, Hengyang, China and Tower Health and Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA summarize current state of the art applications of microbubble-cell interactions and sonoporation effects to cellular functions.

10 Feb 2021

Researchers discuss potential benefits of Chinese plants and their therapeutic efficacy

Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this review article the authors Xiuling Li, Shunung Liang, Chee Hwee Tan, Shuwen Cao, Xiaoding Xu, Phei Er Saw and Wei Tao from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China and Center for Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA discuss the potential benefits of four plants endogenous to China and the enhancement of their therapeutic efficacy by nanotechnology intervention.

10 Feb 2021

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New single-payer bill intensifies Newsom’s political peril

Spurred by pandemic, Little Shell Tribe fast-tracks its health service debut

Study: American values and activities have changed dramatically during COVID-19

Researchers develop new tool to decipher cellular conversations

Study shows positive correlation between cardiorespiratory fitness and cognitive health in preschoolers

Bay Area cities go to war over gas stoves in homes and restaurants

Drastic population collapse in Central Africa was caused by prolonged disease epidemic, indicates study

Detection of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant in New York

Study finds high COVID-19 infection rates in pregnant women

Scientists study how a single gene alteration may have separated modern humans from extinct hominins

Researchers detect signs of depression in Spanish tweets

Akkure Genomics raises €1.2 million to accelerate roll-out of its next-generation clinical trials platform

Study: Neuron structures are dissimilar between the brain areas in every individual

Mediterranean diet may have benefits for cognitive functioning in later life

Taking Advantage of Measuring Molecular Collisional Cross-Sections in Pharma

Researchers summarize underlying mechanisms and applications of sonoporation in cellular regulation

Researchers discuss potential benefits of Chinese plants and their therapeutic efficacy

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