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Canada Invests in Long COVID Research, Clinical Guidelines

Editor’s note: Find the latest long COVID news and guidance in Medscape’s Long COVID Resource Center. The Canadian government is investing nearly $30 million in an effort to understand and address the long-lasting effects that can follow SARS-CoV-2 infection, which are commonly referred to as long COVID or post COVID-19 condition (PCC). As part of […]

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Losing a key type of pancreatic cell may contribute to diabetes

Multiple types of beta cells produce insulin in the pancreas, helping to balance blood sugar levels. Losing a particularly productive type of beta cell may contribute to the development of diabetes, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. In the study, published March 16 in Nature Cell Biology, Dr. James Lo, associate […]

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Age, cancer type affect COVID-19 vaccine uptake in cancer patients

For patients with cancer, age, cancer type, and comorbidity are associated with differential COVID-19 vaccine uptake rates, according to a study published online March 15 in Cancer. Dax Kurbegov, M.D., from the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues examined the time to vaccine uptake from Jan. 1, 2021, and factors associated with […]

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Preterm babies do not habituate to repeated pain, shows study

Preterm infants do not get used to repeated pain in the way that full-term infants, children and adults do habituate to pain, finds a study led by UCL (University College London) researchers. The authors of the new Current Biology paper say that if preterm infants have not yet developed the mechanism that enables people to […]

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Effectiveness of SPARK Resilience program during COVID-19 pandemic

Resilience and well-being in difficult times can be developed via online interventions in the workplace. An international team of researchers from France, the UK and Russia (with the participation of researchers from the HSE International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation) studied the effectiveness of SPARK Resilience, a programme for developing resilience, at […]