U.S. Life Expectancy Dropped Nearly 2 Years in 2020
It’s clear that 2020 was a terrible year for health in the U.S., but just how terrible is now coming into focus. New mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics finds that life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years in 2020 compared to 2019, and more than 528,800 more U.S. residents died in 2020 than in 2019. It is the largest single-year increase in annual mortality since 1933, when data for the entire country first became available.
COVID-19 is the primary reason for this shift. The virus was the cause of 10.4% of all deaths last year and became the third-most common cause of death in the country. Howeve...
Source: TIME: Health - December 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
UTSA hit record as research spending tops $130M
The University of Texas at San Antonio set a new record in research spending, reaching $140 million for fiscal year 2021
It’s a big milestone on UTSA's stated quest to secure National Research University Fund eligibility and recognition as a Carnegie Research I institution, a designation that indicates world-class research, academic excellence and an exceptional student body.
Soon after his arrival in San Anto nio in 2017, UTSA President Taylor Eighmy pointed to National Research University… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: W. Scott Bailey Source Type: news
People with schizophrenia are four times as likely to die of COVID-19 as those without the condition
Researchers from the University of Texas found that people who suffer from psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia were at a severely increased risk of dying from COVID-19. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UT Health to break ground on $50M medical building at UTSA
UT Health San Antonio plans to build a nearly 100,000-square-foot medical building on the University of Texas at San Antonio ’s Park West campus.
The building will cost $50 million and house new medical office space and an ambulatory surgery center, according to information filed with the State of Texas. Work on the building could begin as soon as next month.
UT Health San Antonio originally planned to develop a major medical presence at UTSA’s main campus. The scope of that planned project,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - November 11, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: W. Scott Bailey Source Type: news
Needle-free COVID-19 vaccine shows promise
A needle-free COVID-19 vaccination could be possible, with University of Queensland scientists successfully protecting mice from the virus by administering a US-developed vaccine candidate with a ‘patch’.
The University of Texas Hexapro vaccine candidate - delivered via the UQ-developed and Vaxxas-commercialised high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) - provided protection against COVID-19 disease with a single, pain-free 'click' from a pocket-sized applicator. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - October 29, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Cancer patients who recently received treatment are 75% more likely to die of Covid
Researchers from the University of Texas found that receiving treatment may be the biggest indicator as to the COVID-19 outcome of a cancer patient, though not all studies agree. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Leos are most likely to get vaccinated, say Utah officials. Is it written in the stars?
Health authorities compared vaccination rates with Zodiac signs, but the results may require further investigationExciting news for people who believe in science enough to want mass vaccination, but not enough to think horoscopes are made up: Utah ’s Salt Lake county health department says there’s a big difference in vaccination rates depending on your Zodiac sign.At least, that ’s what officials found when they analysed anonymised data on 1.2million residents, providing a table of the least and most vaccinated star signs.How many people of each Zodiac sign are vaccinated: Salt Lake county did this using anonymized s...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 24, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Poppy Noor Tags: Life and style US news Science Coronavirus Vaccines and immunisation Health Society Source Type: news
Bringing WISDOM to Breast Cancer Care
Dr. Laura Esserman answers the door of her bright yellow Victorian home in San Francisco’s Ashbury neighborhood with a phone at her ear. She’s wrapping up one of several meetings that day with her research team at University of California, San Francisco, where she heads the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. She motions me in and reseats herself at a makeshift home office desk in her living room, sandwiched between a grand piano and set of enormous windows overlooking her front yard’s flower garden. It’s her remote base of operations when she’s not seeing patients or operating at the hospita...
Source: TIME: Health - October 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
UT Health San Antonio spinoff company advancing brain injury drug
Research launched at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio over a decade ago is nearing a landmark moment.
Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals, a UT Health San Antonio spinoff company founded on technology owned by the University of Texas System Board of Regents, has scored a $3 million award from the Medica l Technology Enterprise Consortium, or MTEC, to fund a Phase I clinical safety study in humans for a drug to treat a variety of brain injuries, including concussion and stroke.
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - October 14, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: W. Scott Bailey Source Type: news
Pregnant women with symptomatic COVID-19 have an increased risk of emergency deliveries
A new study from the University of Texas Medical Brand, Galveston, Texas, found expectant mothers who had Covid symptoms were more likely to have emergency deliveries. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Concussions and kids: Project co-led by UCLA gets $10 million grant from NIH
A research project co-led by theUCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Programaimed at improving the assessment and treatment of concussions in school-aged children has been awarded $10 million by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health.The grant to the Four Corners Youth Consortium, agroup of academic medical centers studying pediatric concussions, will supportConcussion Assessment, Research and Education for Kids, or CARE4Kids, a multisite study that will enroll more than 1,300 children and teens nationwide, including an estimated 240 in Southern California.CARE4Kids re...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 7, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
New Opdivo/Yervoy Mesothelioma Clinical Trial Begins Soon
A novel clinical trial involving the immunotherapy combination of Opdivo and Yervoy will open soon in Chicago. The goal is to study the drugs’ efficacy when added to surgery for patients with peritoneal mesothelioma cancer.
The single-center, phase II clinical trial follows a recent report detailing the impressive three-year effectiveness of the drug combination when used for unresectable pleural mesothelioma.
Bristol Myers Squibb manufactures Opdivo and Yervoy, known generically as nivolumab and ipilimumab. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the combination for pleural mesothelioma in 2020, making it t...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - October 7, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Source Type: news
UTSA gets nearly $13M for brain cancer research
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $12.5 million to researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio to advance new methods for studying genetic brain disorders.
UTSA will assist in the five-year study into the treatment of multiple neurological diseases, including epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
Bernard Arulanandam, vice president for research, economic development and knowledge enterprise at UTSA, said the NIH grant is one of the largest research awards th e university has ever received… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - October 6, 2021 Category: Biotechnology Authors: W. Scott Bailey Source Type: news
UTHealth gets nearly $4M from CPRIT to train cancer-prevention scientists, researchers
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has awarded nearly $4 million funding to a program led by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston with the goal of increasing the number of cancer-prevention scientists.
The UTHealth-CPRIT Innovation in Cancer Prevention Research Training Program works to produce skilled cancer scientists and researchers by teaching career skills, team science, interdisciplinary communication skills and more. The program is headed up by Maria… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Mathews Source Type: news
Dr. Kevin Dalby One of Six UT Austin Faculty Members to Receive a...
Dr. Kevin Dalby is one of the six faculty members at the University of Texas set to receive a grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute. The nearly $4 million grant will support his work...(PRWeb October 05, 2021)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/dr_kevin_dalby_one_of_six_ut_austin_faculty_members_to_receive_a_grant_for_cancer_research/prweb18241331.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - October 5, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
