Clinical Trials & Research

Study design This is a secondary analysis of a cross-sectional pilot study that examined the impact of social networks on college student nutrition, physical activity, and weight outcomes67. Participants were recruited from three residence halls across one urban campus. Once eligible students were enrolled in the primary study (n = 221), they were given the opportunity to

The continuous evolution of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in the emergence of several variants, such as the Alpha, Beta, Delta, Iota, and Omicron variants. At present, SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants are dominantly circulating in most countries throughout the world.  Study: Awareness of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Infection Among Adults With Recent COVID-19

Estimates indicate that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has been diagnosed in over 170,000 pregnant people in the United States between January 2020 and February 2022. During this same time period, over 29,000 pregnant people were hospitalized due to this disease.

Wang FG, Yan WM, Yan M, Song MM. Outcomes of Mini vs Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a meta-analysis and systematic review. Int J Surg. 2018;56:7–14. PubMed  Article  Google Scholar  Buchwald H, Avidor Y, Braunwald E, Jensen MD, Pories W, Fahrbach K, et al. Bariatric surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Jama. 2004;292:1724–37. CAS  PubMed  Article  Google

A study finds that blood tests taken the day of a traumatic brain injury can predict which patients are likely to die or survive with severe disability, allowing clinicians to make decisions earlier on possible treatment of TBI. Researchers from Michigan Medicine, the University of California San Francisco and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed day-of-injury

Manners PJ, Bower C. Worldwide prevalence of juvenile arthritis why does it vary so much? J Rheumatol. 2002;29:1520–30. e-pub ahead of print 2002/07/26 PubMed  Google Scholar  Tugal-Tutkun I, Quartier P, Bodaghi B. Disease of the year: juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis-classification and diagnostic approach. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2014;22:56–63. https://doi.org/10.3109/09273948.2013.871565. e-pub ahead of print 2014/01/15 Article  PubMed 

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have identified in mice the cell of origin of combined liver/biliary duct carcinomas, a rare type of cancer of the liver. The pro-inflammatory immune messenger interleukin 6 (IL-6) was found to be the driver of carcinogenesis. Blocking of IL-6

Soriano JB, Kendrick PJ, Paulson KR, Gupta V, Abrams EM, Adedoyin RA, et al. Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet Respiratory Med. 2020;8:585–96. Article  Google Scholar  Lynch DA, Sverzellati N, Travis WD, Brown KK, Colby TV, Galvin JR, et

In a recent study published in the JAMA Network journal, researchers assessed the association of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and influenza with thrombotic events among patients. Study: Association of COVID-19 vs Influenza With Risk of Arterial and Venous Thrombotic Events Among Hospitalized Patients. Image Credit: Victor Josan/Shutterstock Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Clark, J. M. The epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in adults. J. Clin. Gastroenterol. 40(Suppl 1), S5–S10 (2006). PubMed  Google Scholar  Targher, G. & Arcaro, G. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Atherosclerosis 191, 235–240 (2007). CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Noureddin, M., Mato, J. M. & Lu, S. C. Nonalcoholic

Located in southern Africa, Zambia is a considerable distance from a place like Japan. The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Zambia, which was founded in 1983 with funding from the Japanese government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA), is a premier institution for training researchers in infectious diseases in Zambia, a country with a diverse

Bone health requires a balanced activity of various bone cell types including bone-forming osteoblasts and bone-resorbing osteoclasts. Osteoporosis occurs when osteoclasts dominate without adequate bone formation to compensate. In new research published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, elevated blood levels of a certain chemokine, or small signaling protein, that promotes osteoclast formation

Healthy foods are green foods An analysis of 57,000 foods reveals which have the best and worst environmental impacts. A team of researchers used an algorithm to estimate how much of each ingredient was in thousands of products sold in major UK supermarket chains. The scientists then gave food items an environmental-impact score out of

A team of scientists from Israel and the USA has recently conducted a study to understand the association between magnitudes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine-induced antibodies and the level of protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The study is currently available on the Research Square* preprint server. Study: Correlates of

Target population Recruitment was conducted by placing posters within the university campus and posting an application form on the Toho University School of Medicine website. The participants of the study were healthy adults aged between 20 and 64 years, who reported no taste abnormalities. All participants who enrolled in the study were given a written explanation

The University of Tennessee, College of Nursing has been awarded a $3.7M grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to provide quality mental health care services to rural communities with underrepresented and minority residents, seeing both insured and uninsured patients, through nurse practitioner-led mobile health units and telehealth equipment. The project titled Mobile

Researchers have created a mathematical model to predict genetic resistance to antimalarial drugs in Africa to manage one of the biggest threats to global malarial control. Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites and spread to humans through infected mosquitos. It is preventable and curable, yet resistance to current antimalarial drugs is causing avoidable

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. World Drug Report 2021; Booklet 1; Executive summary Policy implications https://www.unodc.org/res/wdr2021/field/WDR21_Booklet_1.pdf (2021). Mahboub, N., Rizk, R., Karavetian, M. & de Vries, N. Nutritional status and eating habits of people who use drugs and/or are undergoing treatment for recovery: a narrative review. Nutr. Rev. 79, 627–635 (2020). Article  Google

Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients’ billsPlay Barbara Robinson was just trying to help her mother’s friend sign up for Medicaid and move into the Monroe County nursing home in Rochester, New York. But because Robinson signed the admissions form, the nursing home considered her financially responsible for the woman’s

Goldstein, R. F. et al. Gestational weight gain across continents and ethnicity: Systematic review and meta-analysis of maternal and infant outcomes in more than one million women. BMC Med. 16, 153 (2018). Article  Google Scholar  Henriksson, P. et al. Body mass index and gestational weight gain in migrant women by birth regions compared with Swedish-born

In a recent study posted to bioRxiv*, researchers determined the cryo-electron microscopic (cryo-EM) structures of engineered angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor traps. Study: Computational pipeline provides mechanistic understanding of Omicron variant of concern neutralizing engineered ACE2 receptor traps. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has acquired multiple mutations throughout the

Main components of the four C. militaris fermentation products Table 1 showed that the content of polysaccharides in the EPS group was the highest, and was significantly higher than those in the FB, MY and FBMY groups (p < 0.05). There were significant differences in the contents of cordycepin and adenosine in the four C. militaris fermentation products