Can Influenza Make COVID-19 Deadlier During Flu Season?
Professor Narasaraju Teluguakula and colleagues review evidence that influenza and SARS-CoV-2 together can amplify lung inflammation and worsen illness, although clinical findings remain mixed.
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Health & Medicine
Clinical studies, public health, pharmacology and the biology of disease.
Predicting Rheumatoid Arthritis Outcomes Using Advanced Data Analysis Techniques
Professor Keiichi Yamamoto's team used energy landscape analysis of a rheumatoid arthritis cohort to separate patients heading towards stable remission from those heading towards a treatment dead-end.
Enhanced Bone Regeneration Using Plasma-Treated Materials and Stem Cells
Dr. Maja Miletić's team found that a bone-graft material pretreated with cold plasma and seeded with periodontal ligament stem cells improved bone healing and reduced inflammation in rabbits.
Resilience may be the missing piece in the puzzle of addiction
Dr. Alexandra Rogers and Professor Frances Leslie argue that addiction research should also study why most drug users never become addicted, treating resilience as an active brain process.
Assessing Financial Viability of Full Paying Patient Services in Malaysia
Professor Sharifa Puteh's team sets out a protocol to test whether private-paying patient services in selected Malaysian public hospitals cover their costs, using cost volume profit analysis.
Friend or foe / COVID-19 and STIs: Madrid (Spain) diagnosed fewer cases of Trichomonas vaginalis during pandemics
Dr. Alexandra Ibáñez-Escribano's team found that Trichomonas vaginalis diagnoses fell at a Madrid hospital during the pandemic, most likely because less screening was done rather than fewer infections.
Unlocking Insights for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients with Roche’s cutting-edge cobas EZH2 Mutation test
Peter Schlag's team found that Roche's cobas EZH2 mutation test closely matched next-generation sequencing in detecting EZH2 mutations in samples from people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Individualized human brain function during task performance
Dr. Jie Huang's brain-imaging study found that activity varied markedly from trial to trial and between people doing the same simple task, alongside shared patterns such as those for finger tapping.
Microneedle Patch: A Promising Advancement in the Fight Against Iron Deficiency Anemia
Dr. Marina Rajadurai's team developed a biodegradable microneedle skin patch carrying iron nanoparticles that released iron steadily, with a low initial burst, in laboratory tests on pig skin.
Exploring AXL+ Siglec 6+ Dendritic Cells in HIV transmission and infection
Dr. Najla Nasr's team found that AXL+ SIGLEC-6+ dendritic cells gather in inflamed human genital tissues, capture HIV and pass it to CD4 T cells in two distinct phases.
fNIRS Devices Show Promising Cognitive Enhancement Effects
Professor Matteo Martini and Professor Natalia Arias found that people wearing active fNIRS brain-imaging devices responded faster and more accurately on memory and attention tasks than those wearing inactive ones.
From Pain to Gain: Hyaluronic Acid and PRP’s Synergistic Effect on Patellar Chondropathy
Reviewing the evidence, Dr. Fábio Costa's team concludes that combining hyaluronic acid with platelet-rich plasma is a promising non-surgical option for patellar chondropathy, or runner's knee.