As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe in 2020, musicians around the world were desperate for the answers to two pressing questions: Can playing musical instruments transmit COVID-19? And if so, what…
Mount Sinai researchers have received $2.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to study whether a first-of-its-kind brain implant can improve the ability of severely paralyzed patients to communicate. The grant…
A University of Miami Miller School of Medicine research team has launched a Phase 3 multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of mesenchymal stem cells in treating COVID-19 patients with acute…
A Michigan Medicine physician will co-lead a National Institutes of Health study of antibody response to an additional dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in people with autoimmune diseases who did not present a strong…
Black adults are disproportionately affected by cardiovascular disease but underrepresented in cardiovascular disease clinical research trials in the United States. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommends that studies should define goals…
Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 are one of the hottest topics right now. Novel variants of the virus are spreading rapidly in places where the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to have been brought under control…
A new study published in the journal Nature estimates that 103 million Americans, or 31 percent of the U.S. population, had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by the end of 2020. Columbia University Mailman School…
Just like the COVID-19 virus itself, the means of monitoring and testing for it in wastewater have evolved into a new beast more than a year later. In 2020, West Virginia University (WVU) researchers…
SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind today’s global coronavirus pandemic, spreads primarily by inhalation of virus-laden aerosols at both short and long ranges —and a comprehensive new assessment of respiratory viruses finds that many…
COVID-19 vaccines remain effective, but their potency has diminished in recent months, according to a nationwide study at eight sites, including Salt Lake City, Utah. Scientists calculated vaccine effectiveness to be 80%…