The ATS Research Program today announced two new grant opportunities made possible by the American Lung Association/ATS/CHEST Foundation Respiratory Health Equity Research Award. Each grant provides $100,000 in funding per year for two years.
Increasing genetic diversity protects against total crop failure
The sometimes-violent antigovernment demonstrations that erupted during 2020 and 2021 were fueled in part by the spread of extremist ideologies, conspiratorial thinking, and a criminal-justice system that disproportionately targets racial minorities. New research published in the journal Psychological Science also puts some of the blame for civil unrest and political violence on the psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Expanding upon its nearly 170-year history of innovation and discovery, the Mount Sinai Health System has launched a bold capital campaign to raise $2 billion by 2025 that will power the organization into a forward-looking era of advanced patient care, research, and education.
Team of NAU paleoclimatologists contribute to major report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, forming scientific underpinnings for negotiations to limit carbon emissions worldwide
Emergency department physicians who saw patients with a pulmonary embolism–a blood clot in the lung–were about 15% likelier over the next 10 days to test subsequent patients for the same thing.
A research team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital has found that delivering acute care at home for non-COVID patients freed up substantial inpatient capacity during the COVID-19 surge last spring.
Not all jobs are ‘good jobs’, and new research from the Universities of East Anglia (UEA) and Birmingham finds such work can have a negative impact on wellbeing.
A licensed drug normally used to treat abnormal levels of fatty substances in the blood could reduce infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus by up to 70 per cent, reveals a study in the laboratory by an international collaboration of researchers.
The risk that both tobacco and electronic cigarettes can pose to regular smokers’ health has been well documented, but a new UCLA study illustrates just how quickly vaping can affect the cells of even healthy younger nonsmokers.
