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Pediatric dietary mobile game improved children’s short-term food choices

Rates of overweight and obesity in children are rising around the world, with serious long-term consequences for health and health care costs. In prior research, video and mobile games have helped children eat healthier and exercise more.

11 Feb 2021

Innovative collaboration applies state-of-the-art computation to medical care

An innovative partnership at The University of Texas at Austin takes aim at medicine down to the individual level by applying state-of-the-art computation to medical care.

10 Feb 2021

Virtual reality app can help reduce fear of heights

Researchers from the University of Basel have developed a virtual reality app for smartphones to reduce fear of heights.

10 Feb 2021

Novel tool guides evaluation of patients who develop COVID-19 symptoms

When patients arrive in emergency departments and hospitals with symptoms consistent with COVID-19, it's critical to isolate them to avoid the potential spread of infection, but keeping patients isolated longer than needed could delay patient care, take up hospital beds needed for other patients, and unnecessarily use up personal protective equipment.

10 Feb 2021

Lung ultrasound helps predict clinical progression of severe COVID-19 patients

Lung ultrasound, considered a simple method for diagnosing lung disease, can also help predict the clinical progression of severe COVID-19 patients, according to a study conducted at the University of São Paulo's Medical School in São Paulo City, Brazil.

10 Feb 2021

A person's breath holds the key to monitoring fat metabolization

Your breath holds the key to monitoring fat burning, and now a research group from Tohoku University has created a compact and low-cost device that can measure how our body metabolizes fat.

10 Feb 2021

Some COVID-19 patients experience persistent chronic fatigue six months after infection, finds study

Scientists from Germany recently revealed that almost 50% of patients present with moderate to severe chronic fatigue syndrome six months after SARS-CoV-2 infection.

10 Feb 2021

Scientists are exploring new possibilities to make more effective COVID-19 vaccines

Advances in the fields of biomaterials and nanotechnology could lead to big breakthroughs in the fight against dangerous viruses like the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

10 Feb 2021

UCI Health creates new system to deliver monoclonal antibodies in COVID-19 patients

Monoclonal antibodies are showing promise for improving outcomes for COVID-19 patients, but when a hospital is already beyond capacity, administering them can be a challenge.

10 Feb 2021

Smartphones could help manage chronic cardiopulmonary disease, predict next pandemic

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a simple optical technique used to detect volumetric changes in peripheral blood circulation. It's used in smart watches, for example, to monitor pulse and heart rate, but PPG biosensors are also found in millions of smartphones, but without any current clinical applications.

10 Feb 2021

Metal-containing radiopharmaceuticals could improve access to diagnostic imaging of AD

A team of researchers from the Laboratory of Biophysics at NUST MISIS, Lomonosov Moscow State University and D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia has summarized metal-containing diagnostic agents for positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

9 Feb 2021

Researchers develop self-assembling nanoparticle SARS-CoV-2 vaccines

Researchers in China have developed three SARS-CoV-2 nanoparticle vaccines, containing receptor-binding domain (RBD) trimer, S1 trimer, and ectodomain (ECD) trimer, respectively. To do this, they have used Ferritin nanoparticle self-assembly technology.

9 Feb 2021

$Skeletal age calculator aims to better identify individuals at risk of bone fractures$

Skeletal age calculator aims to better identify individuals at risk of bone fractures

Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have developed a computational model to calculate 'skeletal age', a personalized estimate of an individual's risk of bone fracture and premature death.

9 Feb 2021

Tiny nanoparticles furnished with dyes could be used for new imaging techniques

Tiny nanoparticles can be furnished with dyes and could be used for new imaging techniques, as chemists and physicists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) show in a recent study.

9 Feb 2021

Simple blood test can detect a wide range of diseases

In diagnostic medicine, biopsies, where a sample of tissue is extracted for analysis, is a common tool for the detection of many conditions. But this approach has several drawbacks - it can be painful, doesn't always extract the diseased tissue, and can only be used in a sufficiently advanced disease stage, making it, in some cases, too late for intervention.

9 Feb 2021

New machine-learning algorithm estimates number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.

World health experts have long suspected that the incidence of COVID-19 has been higher than reported. Now, a machine-learning algorithm developed at UT Southwestern estimates that the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. since the pandemic began is nearly three times that of confirmed cases.

8 Feb 2021

Wearable devices can identify COVID-19 cases earlier than traditional diagnostic methods

Wearable devices can identify COVID-19 cases earlier than traditional diagnostic methods and can help track and improve management of the disease, Mount Sinai researchers report in one of the first studies on the topic. The findings were published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research on January 29.

8 Feb 2021

Type of aspirating system significantly affects SARS-CoV-2 incidence among dental specialists

High-volume aspirators are recommended in dental clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the study "SARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity Among Dental Staff and the Role of Aspirating Systems" published in the JDR Clinical & Translational Research (JDR CTR), shows that the type of aspirating system significantly affects the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among dental specialists.

8 Feb 2021

New platform could help advance genomic medicine research, drug discovery

A Cleveland Clinic-led team of researchers has developed a personalized genomic medicine platform that will help advance accelerate genomic medicine research and genome-informed drug discovery, according to new study results published recently in Genome Biology.

8 Feb 2021

Real-time tool can rapidly predict mortality for patients facing transfer between hospitals

With the aid of sophisticated machine learning, researchers at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine demonstrated that a tool they developed can rapidly predict mortality for patients facing transfer between hospitals in order to access higher-acuity care.

8 Feb 2021

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Pediatric dietary mobile game improved children’s short-term food choices

Innovative collaboration applies state-of-the-art computation to medical care

Virtual reality app can help reduce fear of heights

Novel tool guides evaluation of patients who develop COVID-19 symptoms

Lung ultrasound helps predict clinical progression of severe COVID-19 patients

A person's breath holds the key to monitoring fat metabolization

Some COVID-19 patients experience persistent chronic fatigue six months after infection, finds study

Scientists are exploring new possibilities to make more effective COVID-19 vaccines

UCI Health creates new system to deliver monoclonal antibodies in COVID-19 patients

Smartphones could help manage chronic cardiopulmonary disease, predict next pandemic

Metal-containing radiopharmaceuticals could improve access to diagnostic imaging of AD

Researchers develop self-assembling nanoparticle SARS-CoV-2 vaccines

Skeletal age calculator aims to better identify individuals at risk of bone fractures

Tiny nanoparticles furnished with dyes could be used for new imaging techniques

Simple blood test can detect a wide range of diseases

New machine-learning algorithm estimates number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.

Wearable devices can identify COVID-19 cases earlier than traditional diagnostic methods

Type of aspirating system significantly affects SARS-CoV-2 incidence among dental specialists

New platform could help advance genomic medicine research, drug discovery

Real-time tool can rapidly predict mortality for patients facing transfer between hospitals

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