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How a Brain Tumor Helped Cyclist Chris Baccash Change His Life
Being a professional cyclist with an optimistic disposition and an adventurous spirit comes in handy when, after having a seizure at work and waking up in a hospital, you even...
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Monoclonal Antibody Reduces Asthma Attacks in Urban Youth
A monoclonal antibody, mepolizumab, decreased asthma attacks by 27% in Black and Hispanic children and adolescents who have a form of severe asthma, are prone to asthma attack...Full Article
UCI Study Examines Distorted Time Perception During Pandemic
The passage of time was altered for many people during the COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from difficulty in keeping track of days of the week to feeling that the hours themselves...
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Clinical Trial Evaluating Monkeypox Vaccine Begins
A clinical trial evaluating alternative strategies for administering the JYNNEOS monkeypox vaccine to increase the number of available doses has begun enrolling adult voluntee...Full Article
Arterial Stiffness Raises Blood Pressure In Adolescents Via Insulin Resistance
In the young population, arterial stiffness, an emerging risk factor for hypertension, indirectly raises blood pressure via an increase in insulin resistance but not via an in...Full Article
Pregnant Women With Obesity And Diabetes May Be More Likely To Have A Child With ADHD
Children of women with gestational diabetes and obesity may be twice as likely to develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to those whose mothers did n...Full Article
SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Levels Linked To Patient Outcomes
The amount of SARS-CoV-2 antigen measured in the blood of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is associated with illness severity and other clinical outcomes, according to a n...Full Article
Precision Health Perspectives: How Artificial Intelligence Can Revolutionize Medical Care
In February, UCI launched the Institute for Precision Health, a campus-wide, interdisciplinary endeavor that merges UCI’s powerhouse health sciences, engineering, machine lear...Full Article
Discovery Advances The Potential Of Gene Therapy To Restore Hearing Loss
Scientists from the Salk Institute and the University of Sheffield co-led a study that shows promise for the development of gene therapies to repair hearing loss. In developed...Full Article
Academic Decline Could be a Sign of Hearing Loss
As children across the U.S. prepare to get back to school, the American Academy of Audiology recommends that parents and teachers pay close attention to children’s hearing abi...
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Back to School: Key Facts for Families New to Speech and Language Services
As children across the country return to classrooms, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is offering families information about speech and language service...
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People with Severe COVID-19 Face Increased Risk of Life-Threatening Blood Clots
Individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 were more likely to develop venous thromboembolism – a potentially life-threatening condition – than those hospitalized with influenza, ...Full Article
Vaccine-Induced Immune Response to Omicron Wanes Substantially Over Time
Although COVID-19 booster vaccinations in adults elicit high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, antibody levels decrease substantiall...
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Enabling Addiction - 7 Behaviors That Suggest You’re An Enabler
When your loved one struggles with drug addiction, it’s important to provide support. However, there’s a difference between supporting someone and enabling them. Enabling me...Full Article
Largest International Effort to Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing of Health Professionals and Patient Safety
Magnet4Europe, a 4 million Euro project funded by the European Commission, is the largest international implementation science project ever attempted to fundamentally change h...Full Article
Caring For Loved Ones With Dementia Is Stressful. Rice Researchers Aim To Help
Providing care for people with dementia is a physically demanding and emotionally taxing job that often falls upon loved ones, whose own health can suffer as a result. A new,...Full Article
Hypertension Elevates Risk for More Severe COVID-19 Illness
Hypertension more than doubles the risk of hospitalization related to Omicron infection, even in people who are fully vaccinated and boosted, according to a new study led by i...Full Article
‘A Window Into The Body’ Researchers at UCI Salivary Bioscience Institute are Championing the Use of Spit in Diagnostics
The so-called “diagnostic fluid of the future,” saliva is loaded with DNA, enzymes, hormones, immune system markers and other substances that make it a minimally invasive alte...Full Article
Take These 7 Healthy Habits On Your Summer Road Trip
You've spent the past couple of years staying fit and healthy despite the unusual circumstances of mostly staying home. Now you're packing the car for a well-deserved summer ...Full Article
Penn Study: Text Messaging Shows Promise in Reaching Unvaccinated Patients
Automated text messaging was as effective as direct phone calls in getting unvaccinated patients to seek out a COVID-19 shot, according to a new study from the Perelman School...
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Cedars-Sinai Experts Lift a 'Sinking' Brain
Russell Secker, now 67, was in Lake Tahoe in 2016 to run a series of ultra-distance races with his wife, Claire. The two had completed hundreds of marathons and races totaling...
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MU Study Finds Health Benefits Of ‘Aging In Place’
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) found the majority of older adults want to stay in their own home as they age. However, given the natural decline in health ...Full Article
Covid-19 Was Third Leading Cause Of Death In The United States In Both 2020 And 2021
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States between March 2020 and October 2021, according to an analysis of national death certificate data by research...Full Article
Make Summer a Season for Safe Listening, Says ASHA
With the unofficial kickoff to summer on Memorial Day Weekend, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is urging the public to remember to use hearing protecti...
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Cedars-Sinai Leader in Maternal-Fetal Medicine Honored for Dedication to Women’s Healthcare
Kimberly Gregory, MD, MPH, director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and vice chair of Women's Healthcare Quality and Performance Improvement in the Department of Obstetrics and Gy...Full Article
