NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with mavacamten improves cardiac structure and function in patients with obstructive hypertropic cardiomyopathy (HCM), according to echocardiographic findings from…
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HIV Testing Dips During Pandemic Raise Transmission Concerns
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. HIV testing centers across the US showed reductions in testing of…
Exploring the impact of DNA nanoswitches in RNA purification
With the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, research on ribonucleic acid (RNA), the genetic material that makes up the viral genome, has been a…
High stress levels during COVID-19 increase odds of aggressive discipline practices by parents
During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents were most likely to use aggressive discipline on their children when their daily stress levels were highest, usually late in…
FDA Updates TTS Risks, Cautions for Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Updated Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine fact sheets for healthcare professionals…
Wartime Trauma Hits Close to Home for Scholar of Dementia
Oanh Meyer was a postdoctoral fellow studying the experiences of caregivers for those with dementia in 2012 when her research took a very personal turn.…
Brigham and Womens Nurses: Hospital Defying Order on Surgeries
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. As an operating nurse, Trish Powers, RN, has witnessed the backup…
Insomnia in Healthcare Workers Worsened During the Pandemic
Healthcare workers who don’t sleep well are twice as likely to report symptoms of depression than their better-rested colleagues, according to a recent study on…
New prototype enables people with severely impaired motor skills to communicate with others
A research team from the University of Malaga has developed a prototype that combines scalp sensors and a graphical interface to enable people with severely…
AlphaFold AI predicts SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant might not evade antibody neutralization
Scientists from the University of North Carolina have recently conducted computational modeling studies to predict the structure and immune escape ability of spike receptor-binding domain…