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Medications to treat high blood pressure did not affect outcomes among patients hospitalized with COVID-19. The study is the first randomized controlled trial to show there is no risk for patients continuing these medications while hospitalized for COVID-19. Source: Commonly used blood pressure medications safe for COVID-19 patients, study finds
Continue Reading →In a large-scale study of electronic health records investigators determined the prevalence of functional seizures and characterized comorbidities associated with them. Functional seizures are sudden attacks or spasms that look like epileptic seizures but do not have the aberrant brain electrical patterns of epilepsy. The research team confirmed associations between functional seizures and psychiatric disorders […]
Continue Reading →Emotional appeals in advertisements may not always help improve consumers’ immediate recall of a product, says a new article. Source: Emotionally appealing ads may not always help consumer memory
Continue Reading →Surgical smoke poses a health risk to everyone in the operating room. Perioperative teams exposed to surgical smoke report twice as many respiratory health issues as the general public. The smoke can even contain viruses. Researchers suggest that policies and laws mandating the evacuation of surgical smoke from operating rooms are the best way to […]
Continue Reading →Improving imaging processes will lead to more successful treatments and help reduce morbidity in men with the disease. Source: MRI frequently underestimates tumor size in prostate cancer
Continue Reading →People taking immunosuppressive drugs to prevent organ transplant rejection or to treat inflammatory or autoimmune diseases do not fare worse than others on average when they are hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a new study. Source: COVID-19 outcomes for patients on immunosuppressive drugs on par with non-immunosuppressed patients, study finds
Continue Reading →Impaired intelligence, movement disorders and developmental delays are typical for a group of rare diseases that belong to GPI anchor deficiencies. Researchers now used genetic engineering methods to create a mouse that mimics these patients very well. Studies in this animal model suggest that in GPI anchor deficiencies, a gene mutation impairs the transmission of […]
Continue Reading →Researchers published promising findings on preventing a common complication to lifesaving blood stem cell transplantation in leukemia. Source: Reducing treatment-related complication for blood cancer patients
Continue Reading →What feels like up may actually be some other direction depending on how our brains process our orientation, according to psychology researchers. Researchers found that an individual’s interpretation of the direction of gravity can be altered by how their brain responds to visual information. Source: What happens when your brain can't tell which way is […]
Continue Reading →In a money-saving revelation for organizations inclined to invest in specialized information technology to support the process of idea generation, new research suggests that even non-specialized, everyday organizational IT can encourage employees’ creativity. Source: For the right employees, even standard information technology can spur creativity
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