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Autopsy Study of Patients With/Without COVID-19

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
What The Study Did: This autopsy study examines differences in skeletal muscle and myocardial inflammation in patients who died with COVID-19 versus other diseases.
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Promising ovarian cancer treatment proves effective and efficient

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
Preclinical trials of a new radiopharmaceutical to treat ovarian cancer have produced successful results, dramatically limiting tumor growth and decreasing tumor mass. Designed specifically for ovarian cancers that are resistant to traditional therapies, the new radiopharmaceutical can be produced in 25 minutes at low cost, which leads to better efficiency compared with alternative methods. This research was presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2021 Annual Meeting.
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Factors Associated With Self-reported Symptoms of Depression Among Adults With/Without Previous COVID-19

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
What The Study Did: This survey study compared features of major depression in people with or without prior COVID-19 illness.
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Association of Medicare Advantage star ratings with disparities in quality of care

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
Researchers examined the associations between Medicare Advantage star ratings, which are created using data from all enrollees in a plan, and disparities in care for racial/ethnic minorities and enrollees with lower income and less education.
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An omega-3 that's poison for tumors

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
3D tumors that disintegrate within a few days thanks to the action of a well-known omega-3 (DHA, found mainly in fish) -- this is the exceptional discovery by University of Louvain researchers.Hungry for fatty acids, tumor cells in acidosis gorge themselves on DHA but are unable to store it correctly and literally poison themselves. The result? They die.
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Comparing symptoms, RNA levels in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
What The Study Did: Researchers compared the association between symptoms and SARS-CoV-2 RNA levels in children and adults.
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Anticoagulation in patients hospitalized with COVID-19

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
What The Study Did: This study of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 examines the association of anticoagulation treatment with mortality rates.
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Study finds brain areas involved in seeking information about bad possibilities

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the brain regions involved in choosing whether to find out if a bad event is about to happen.
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International analysis of electronic health records of children, youth hospitalized with COVID-19 in 6 countries

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
What The Study Did: Researchers describe international hospitalization trends and key epidemiological and clinical features of children and youth with COVID-19.
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International medical graduate physician deaths from COVID-19 in US

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
What The Study Did: International medical graduates often practice as physicians in locations and specialties less preferred by U.S. medical graduates. This study reports on physician mortality from COVID-19, and on the mortality of international medical graduates in particular.
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AI predicts how patients with viral infections, including COVID-19, will fare

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers discovered gene expression patterns associated with pandemic viral infections, providing a map to help define patients' immune responses, measure disease severity, predict outcomes and test therapies -- for current and future pandemics.
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Star's death will play a mean pinball with rhythmic planets

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
Four planets locked in a perfect rhythm around a nearby star are destined to be pinballed around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, according to a study led by the University of Warwick that peers into its future.
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Scientists call for improved management of a weedy tree to protect owl habitat

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
New research by Monash University scientists from the School of Biological Sciences published today in Ecological Solutions and Evidence shows that the richness and abundance of birds is much reduced in areas with dense Pittosporum canopies.
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Novel fast-beam-switching transceiver takes 5G to the next level

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and NEC Corporation jointly develop a 28-GHz phased-array transceiver that supports efficient and reliable 5G communications. The proposed transceiver outperforms previous designs in various regards by adapting fast beam switching and leakage cancellation mechanism.
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Oncotarget: Prostate cancer and a possible link with schizophrenia

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
The importance of complex networks of heterotypic interactions between multiple distinct cell types (both malignant and normal) and regulatory circuits has now become widely recognized.
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Astronomers spot a 'blinking giant' near the centre of the Galaxy

Eurekalert - Jun 11 2021 - 00:06
Astronomers have spotted a giant 'blinking' star towards the centre of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away.
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NUS engineers devise novel approach to wirelessly power wearable devices

Eurekalert - Jun 10 2021 - 00:06
Researchers from NUS have come up with a way to use one single device - such as a mobile phone or smart watch - to wirelessly power up to 10 wearables on a user. This novel method uses the human body as a medium for transmitting power. Their system can also harvest unused energy from electronics in a typical home or office environment to power the wearables.
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Olfactory virtual realities show promise for mental health practices and integrative care

Eurekalert - Jun 10 2021 - 00:06
Study shows that scent-enhanced virtual reality technologies, or OVR, can be a safe and effective integrative approach to target anxiety, stress, and pain when combined with standard inpatient psychiatric care.
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Breakthrough in brain imaging may offer future alternative to functional MRI

Eurekalert - Jun 10 2021 - 00:06
Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), with the help of patients recovering from traumatic brain injury, have now demonstrated an alternative way to produce highly detailed images of the human brain. Their work, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, yielded the first pictures of human brain function ever produced using functional photoacoustic computerized tomography (fPACT) - a landmark in the history of functional brain imaging.
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Anomalous weak values via a single photon detection

Eurekalert - Jun 10 2021 - 00:06
Nowadays, weak values are one of the most intriguing and controversial quantum measurement paradigms: their 'anomalous' nature, as well as their 'quantumness,' has been largely debated. In this work, we address this debate by presenting the first experiment measuring anomalous weak values with just a single click, without any statistical averaging. Beyond clarifying the meaning of weak values, demonstrating their single-particle nature, this result shows unprecedented measurement capability, representing a breakthrough in quantum measurement foundations.
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