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How anonymized data helps fight against disease10h ago ( February 24, 2021 at 4:00 AM ) Data has always been a vital tool in understanding and fighting disease — from Florence Nightingale’s 1800s hand drawn illustrations that showed how poor sanitation contributed to preventable diseases to the first open source repository of datadeveloped in response to the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa. When the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Wuhan, data again became one of the most critical tools to combat the pandemic. A group of researchers, who documented the initial outbreak, qu...Tags: Health, Google, Global, West Africa, University of Oxford, Wuhan, Google.org, Nairobi, Florence Nightingale, Boston Children 's Hospital, Stephen Ratcliffe, Healthmap, Boston Children 's Hospital the Google, Rockefeller Foundation Global, New York São Paulo Munich Kyoto 30 people like this. Like Researchers investigate how CF patients respond to COVID-19February 23, 2021 at 12:51 AM So far, based on clinical data, patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) don't appear to be especially susceptible to COVID-19, and when they do get infected, they don't seem to get sicker. But Ruobing (Ruby) Wang, MD, a physician-scientist in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, cares for patients with CF and thinks there is more to the story.Tags: Health, Boston Children s Hospital, Ruobing Ruby Wang 40 people like this. Like Expert Group: Chemicals In Plastics Damage Babies’ Brains And Must Be Banned ImmediatelyFebruary 22, 2021 at 11:03 AM  Tags: Apple, Health, Babies, Pregnancy, Cnn, United States, Fda, Epa, Environmental Defense Fund, Healthwatch, ACC, American Chemistry Council, Cvs, Federal Register, University Of North Carolina, Boston Children s Hospital 60 people like this. Like Can a fin become a limb?February 4, 2021 at 12:00 AM Researchers at Harvard and Boston Children's Hospital examine what's happening at genetic level to drive patterns in fin skeleton versus limb skeleton and find mutants with modified fins in a more limb-like pattern by adding new bones, complete with muscles and joints. The results reveal the ability to form limb-like structures was present in the common ancestor of tetrapods and teleost fishes and has been retained in a latent state which can be activated by genetic changes.Tags: Science, Harvard, Boston Children s Hospital 14 people like this. Like How we’re helping get vaccines to more peopleJanuary 25, 2021 at 3:00 AM  Tags: Apple, Health, Google, Maps, New York, Texas, California, New York City, Los Angeles, Google Search, Search, United States, North Carolina, Sundar Pichai, San Francisco Bay Area, Boston Children s Hospital 95 people like this. Like Boston Children’s Hospital Employees Announce Engagement While Getting Vaccinated TogetherJanuary 24, 2021 at 7:01 AM cbsoptanon.onScriptsReady(function(cmp){cmp.ot.targetingAllowed(function(a){if(a) AnvatoPlayer("p0").init({"mcp":"cbs","width":"100%","height":"100%","video":"5225133","autoplay":false,"accessKey":"5VD6Eyd6djewbCmNwBFnsJj17YAvGRwl","accessControl":{"preview":false},"pInstance":"p0","plugins":{"heartbeat":{"account":"cbslocal-global-unified","publisherId":"cbslocal","jobId":"sc_va","marketingCloudId":"[email protected]","trackingServer":"cbsdigitalmedia.hb.omtrdc.net","customTrack...Tags: Boston, Massachusetts, Cbs, Olivia, Boston Children s Hospital, Children s Hospital, Around the Nation, Boston Children 's Hospital Employees 17 people like this. Like Researchers develop improved process for large-scale electron microscopy to visualize small structuresJanuary 12, 2021 at 12:49 AM How are networks of neurons connected to make functional circuits? This has been a long-standing question in neuroscience. To answer this fundamental question, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School developed a new way to study these circuits and in the process learn more about the connections between them.Tags: Health, Boston Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School 23 people like this. Like Nanoparticle drug-delivery system developed to treat brain disordersJanuary 1, 2021 at 12:00 AM To facilitate successful delivery of therapeutic agents to the brain, a team of bioengineers, physicians, and collaborators at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital created a nanoparticle platform, which can facilitate therapeutically effective delivery of encapsulated agents in mice with a physically breached or intact BBB. In a mouse model of traumatic brain injury (TBI), they observed that the delivery system showed three times more accumulation in brain than conventiona...Tags: Science, TBI, Boston Children s Hospital, Brigham 23 people like this. Like These are 20 of the 18,000 people who died of COVID-19 in the US this weekDecember 18, 2020 at 7:08 PM Tags: Science, News, Supreme Court, Cdc, Washington, Israel, US, Trends, Features, Rome, North Dakota, Alaska, Washington Dc, House, New York Times, Dolly Parton 50 people like this. Like Advancing health research with Google Health StudiesDecember 9, 2020 at 8:00 AM  Tags: Health, Google, Google Play Store, Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children 's Hospital, Google Research, John Brownstein, Jon Morgan Paul Eastham, Google Health Studies 74 people like this. Like Study discusses steep drop off from asthma-related ED visits during spring 2020 COVID-19December 4, 2020 at 1:19 AM A new study published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society discusses a steep drop off from prior years in asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits at Boston Children's Hospital during the spring 2020 COVID-19 surge and lockdown.Tags: Health, Boston Children s Hospital, American Thoracic Society 25 people like this. Like Pediatric ER saw steep drop in asthma visits during spring COVID-19 lockdownDecember 4, 2020 at 12:00 AM A new study published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society discusses a steep drop off from prior years in asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits at Boston Children's Hospital during the spring 2020 COVID-19 surge and lockdown.Tags: Science, Boston Children s Hospital, American Thoracic Society 41 people like this. Like On the eve of Thanksgiving, the US recorded its highest single-day coronavirus death toll since May — and the timing could not be worseNovember 26, 2020 at 2:25 PM Tags: Health, Science, News, Thanksgiving, Cdc, White House, US, America, Trends, Cnn, Getty Images, Donald Trump, Abc News, George Stephanopoulos, Anthony Fauci, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention 69 people like this. Like Tau protein changes in Alzheimer's disease correlate with dementia stageNovember 18, 2020 at 12:00 AM In new research, Judith Steen, Ph.D. and colleagues at Boston Children's Hospital show for the first time that a pathological form of the tau protein involved in the progression of Alzheimer's disease changes over time due to chemical modifications. Observed in brain tissue from Alzheimer's patients, the modified tau forms correlated with stages of dementia. These discoveries likely mean it will take multiple drugs to target the tau protein effectively.Tags: Science, Boston Children s Hospital, Judith Steen 15 people like this. Like 'A stain on our country': ICE efforts to stop COVID-19 spread fail to protect immigrant detainees from the virusNovember 11, 2020 at 6:01 AM  Tags: Usa, News, US, Usa Today, Boston Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School 108 people like this. Like Precision chemo-immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer?November 5, 2020 at 12:00 AM Pancreatic cancer is highly lethal: according to the National Cancer Institute, only about 10 percent of patients remain alive five years after diagnosis. Now, a preclinical study from the lab of Marsha Moses, PhD at Boston Children's Hospital, reports marked and lasting tumor regression in a mouse model, using a highly selective, potent, engineered antibody-drug combination.Tags: Science, Boston Children s Hospital, National Cancer Institute, Marsha Moses 34 people like this. Like Boston Children's Hospital will no longer perform two types of intersex surgery on childrenOctober 22, 2020 at 6:01 AM  Tags: Usa, News, Usa Today, Boston Children s Hospital, Lurie Children s Hospital 94 people like this. Like News coverage contributes to drug shortages in COVID-19October 15, 2020 at 8:48 PM Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital in the U.S. have reported that the recent shortage of medicines used to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) could be due to extensive news media coverage that results in individual hoarding or institutional stockpiling of medicines.Tags: Health, Boston Children s Hospital 39 people like this. Like Diabetes drug boosts survival in patients with type 2 diabetes and COVID-19 pneumoniaSeptember 29, 2020 at 12:00 AM Sitagliptin, a drug to lower blood sugar in type 2 diabetes, also improves survival in diabetic patients hospitalized with COVID-19, suggests a multicenter observational study in Italy. Patients given sitagliptin in addition to insulin had a mortality rate of 18 percent as compared with 37 percent in matched patients receiving only insulin. Led by Paolo Fiorina, MD, PhD, of Boston Children's Hospital, the study involved seven Italian hospitals during the first surge of COVID cases last spring.Tags: Science, Italy, Boston Children s Hospital, Paolo Fiorina 46 people like this. Like A scientific advance in studying early-stage lung cancerSeptember 15, 2020 at 12:00 AM Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in the US. It is often missed in its earlier stages, and while recent imaging advances have enabled earlier detection, there are still no targeted treatments for early-stage lung cancers. New research from Boston Children's Hospital, in collaboration with Boston University and UCLA, provides an accelerated platform for identifying and testing potential treatments: 'organoids' created from lung cells.Tags: Science, US, Ucla, Boston University, Boston Children s Hospital 16 people like this. Like Boston Children's Hospital: Doctor ToonSeptember 1, 2020 at 2:36 AM  Tags: Advertising, Toon, Boston Children s Hospital 85 people like this. Like A targeted treatment for emphysema?August 4, 2020 at 12:00 AM Emphysema is a progressive, debilitating lung disease in which the lung's breathing sacs, or alveoli, enlarge, get thinner, and eventually are destroyed as the cells die off. It can be fatal, and there is currently no cure. New research at Boston Children's Hospital, using lung cells and mouse models of emphysema, offers hope in the form of a small, engineered peptide molecule called PR1P.Tags: Science, Boston Children s Hospital 40 people like this. Like Researchers launch randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of pulmozyme in COVID-19 patientsJuly 29, 2020 at 1:22 AM Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital have launched a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of dornase alfa (Pulmozyme) in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia and respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation.Tags: Health, Boston Children s Hospital, Brigham 27 people like this. Like Monitoring for breast cancer after childhood chest radiation: When and how?July 8, 2020 at 12:00 AM Girls who receive chest radiation for cancer are at risk for future breast cancers. What's the best approach to monitoring for breast cancer, and at what age should screening start? Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber/Boston Children's used simulation and modeling to compare different options.Tags: Science, Boston, Boston Children s Hospital, Dana Farber 13 people like this. Like Rare syndrome affecting young people weeks after Covid-19 infection, study findsJune 29, 2020 at 7:47 PM  Tags: New York, News, US, Spain, United States, New England, Imperial College London, Kawasaki, Boston Children s Hospital, Levin, Michael Levin, Britain France Italy, COVID 99 people like this. Like Review highlights why and to what extent a large hip protects from type 2 diabetes and CVDJune 18, 2020 at 10:25 PM In a Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology review article Norbert Stefan from the German Center for Diabetes Research, the University Hospital of Tübingen and the Boston Children's Hospital, highlights why and to what extent a large hip circumference, an estimate of increased fat mass in the lower part of the body, protects from type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.Tags: Health, Boston Children s Hospital, Lancet Diabetes Endocrinology, Norbert Stefan 22 people like this. Like Why and to what extent a large hip protects from type 2 diabetes and CVDJune 18, 2020 at 12:00 AM In a Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology review article Norbert Stefan from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), the University Hospital of Tübingen and the Boston Children's Hospital, highlights why and to what extent a large hip circumference, an estimate of increased fat mass in the lower part of the body, protects from type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVD).Tags: Science, Boston Children s Hospital, Lancet Diabetes Endocrinology, Norbert Stefan 47 people like this. Like New technique opens the door to treating genetic forms of hearing lossJune 3, 2020 at 10:10 PM Using a new genetic engineering technique, known as base editing, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, have restored hearing in mice with a known recessive genetic mutation.Tags: Health, Harvard, Boston Children s Hospital, Broad Institute of MIT 10 people like this. Like Gene therapy with a new base editing technique restores hearing in miceJune 3, 2020 at 12:00 AM Using a base editing technique, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and the Broad Institute, have restored hearing in mice with a known recessive genetic mutation. Researchers repaired one single error in the Tmc1 gene known to cause a hereditary form of deafness. The one-time repair involved switching one incorrect DNA base in the gene with the correct version. This is the first time base editing has been used for a genetic sensory disorder.Tags: Science, Boston Children s Hospital, Broad Institute 32 people like this. Like Accurate mapping of human travel patterns with global smartphone dataMay 18, 2020 at 12:00 AM Understanding people's short- and long-distance travel patterns can inform economic development, urban planning, and responses to natural disasters, wars and conflicts, disease outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. A new global mapping method, developed by scientists from Boston Children's Hospital and the University of Oxford, captured the movements of 300 million mobile phone users from almost all countries of the world, providing estimates of human mobility at much greater resolutio...Tags: Science, University of Oxford, Boston Children s Hospital 35 people like this. Like |
