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Disability-Focused Entrepreneurs Achieve Amazon Kindle Best Seller Status In Eight Categories
Mai Ling Chan, speech-language pathologist, and 13 successful disability-related entrepreneurs achieved Amazon Kindle Best Seller status on the first day of availability in ei...Full Article
Chemistry Innovator Widening, Quickening Uses Of Spectrometry
The clock is ticking when a neurosurgeon is trying to remove a brain tumor but also determining its malignancy and type. Instead of sending samples to a lab where the necessar...Full Article
Does 'Mommy Brain' Last? Study Shows Motherhood Does Not Diminish Attention
“Mommy brain” is a long-held perception that mothers are more forgetful and less attentive. “In most studies, however, attention and memory tests are given to mothers very ea...Full Article
Ohio State Conducts First Gene Therapy Clinical Trial For Huntington’s Disease
In a worldwide first, surgeons at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center have treated two patients with Huntington’s disease using a novel gene therapy treatment as p...Full Article
States Slow to Implement Stay-at-Home Orders Saw Higher Rates of COVID-19 Deaths
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the United States, governments at the state and local levels issued emergency declarations and shut down schools. With no treatment and ...Full Article
The Future of Colorectal Cancer Care is Precision Medicine
Doctors and researchers are abuzz about the field of precision medicine as it alters the landscape of cancer care. Precision medicine—and knowledge about tumor changes known a...Full Article
Survey: 87% of COVID Tests for Nursing Home Residents & Staff Taking Multiple Days or More to Process
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) conducted a survey of 1,385 members from June 25-29, 2020 on COVID-19 testing of staff at l...Full Article
Health Care Organizations Issue Joint Framework to Increase Utilization of Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support
Seven leading diabetes organizations issued a consensus report today highlighting the value of diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) services as part of compr...Full Article
American Nurses Association Joins Letter Urging Public to Wear Masks to Stop the Spread of COVID-19
The American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Association (AMA) and ANA issued an open-call-to-action urging the public to take the steps that we know to stop ...Full Article
ASCP to Collaborate with ASCLS and ASM in Choosing Wisely Campaign
By request from the ABIM Foundation, ASCP has collaborated in working with the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) and the American Society for Microbiolo...
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Study Indicates that Medicaid Expansion Has Led to Earlier Cancer Detection Among Individuals with Low Income
New research found that the likelihood of being diagnosed with advanced cancer decreased among individuals with low income after expansion of Medicaid coverage. The findings a...Full Article
Giant leap in diagnosing liver disease - Stool microbes make a challenging diagnosis easier
Chronic liver disease represents a major global public health problem affecting an estimated 844 million people, according to the World Health Organization. It is among the to...Full Article
MD Anderson and Philips collaborate to facilitate personalized oncology treatments and clinical trial matching based on genomic markers
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Royal Philips announced a collaboration to provide oncologists with evidence-based therapy and clinical trial guidance th...Full Article
Abnormal proteins in the gut could contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s Disease
A new study published in The Journal of Physiology has shown that misfolded protein build-up in the gut could contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s-like symptoms in mic...Full Article
Study finds PFAS exposure may cause early menopause in women
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposure may cause menopause to occur two years earlier in women, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journ...
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Win a VACUSAFE Aspiration System from INTEGRA
INTEGRA Biosciences is giving you the chance to win a VACUSAFE Aspiration System for your lab. This compact, all-in-one laboratory vacuum pump enables safe and efficient colle...
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Get Covid Compliant with COVID SAFE
VideoForU, a professional full-service video production company, announced the launch of: COVID SAFE, a four minute training video that carefully explains the safety measures ...Full Article
New Munters Whitepaper Explores How Humidity Affects Viral Infectivity and Longevity
There is a demonstratable link between humidity and the infectivity and longevity of a variety of viruses, such as influenza and coronaviruses, according to a new whitepaper b...Full Article
26 Health Care Groups Sign On To “Return To Procedures” Guidance
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), and the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced 26 addi...Full Article
NIH Researchers Identify Key Genomic Features That Could Differentiate SARS-CoV-2 From Other Coronaviruses That Cause Less Severe Disease
A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, identified genomic features of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...Full Article
Diabetic ketoacidosis threatens hospitalized patients with COVID-19
Diabetic ketoacidosis is a common and potentially fatal complication in hospitalized patients with COVID-19, according to a new clinical perspective published in the Endocrine...
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LiMSforum.com Publishes New eBook: COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory
Amidst the rapidly-changing and conflicting messages surrounding testing in the current pandemic, LabLynx, Inc. has published a free online book of carefully researched and fu...Full Article
How cells solve their identity crisis
Cancer is often the result of DNA mutations or problems with how cells divide, which can lead to cells “forgetting” what type of cell they are or how to function properly. Now...Full Article
Survey: U.S. Voters Strongly Support More Funding For Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Communities In Response To Coronavirus Pandemic
According to a new national survey, a vast majority of U.S. voters believe long term care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living communities, need more suppor...Full Article
Digital Well-Being Guidelines for Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this unprecedented time, technology has become part of the social fabric in a deeper, more intimate way than ever before—for those of us able to access it, technology has b...Full Article
