Day September 3, 2024

Summary of study design. This figure summarizes the study design, interventions, study-related visits and key study procedures. Participants could enter the study at any time point during pregnancy or postpartum (up to 12 months). As such, each individual participant could…

Metabolic and endocrine stress activation. The endocrine stress axis, which can be triggered by various factors such as psychological stress, physical exhaustion, or metabolic diseases, plays a pivotal role in the body’s response mechanisms. When the endocrine stress axis is…

Credit: Cell Stem Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Michigan and collaborating institutions have discovered that inflammation in the gut leaves long-term marks on intestinal stem cells (ISCs) that reduce their ability to…

Cultured p53 null OPC over-expressing PDGF-BB are highly proliferative and tend to aggregate in low-adhesion conditions. Credit: Neoplasia (2024). DOI: 10.1016 A new study from researchers with the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) sheds…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Researchers have discovered an antibody able to neutralize all known variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as distantly related SARS-like coronaviruses that infect other animals. As part…

A new study has found that Medicaid ACOs in Massachusetts were associated with increases in prenatal and postpartum office visits, postpartum depression screenings, and timely postpartum care. Despite recent declines in nationwide maternal mortality, the United States continues to experience…

Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Over the past decade the number of NHS general practices in England has shrunk by 20%, but patient list sizes have expanded by 40% to just under 10,000, on average, finds an analysis of three…

Women, people of Black ethnicity and those from low income households in England are less likely to be offered heart surgery than men, white people, and those who are affluent, finds research published online in the journal Heart. And when…

Credit: Marcus Aurelius from Pexels The ability to cope well with, and adapt to, challenging life circumstances and events in older age is linked to a lower risk of death, suggests a large nationally representative study, published in the open…