Study shows one more step could help during pandemic
Brynn Rawlings, Guest Writer
DEVILS LAKE – A study published in Translational Behavioral Medicine shows that some measures to promote safety during the pandemic could be bolstered by one more step. The lack of physical activity, the world’s fourth leading cause of death, may be intensified by physical distancing measures during the pandemic.
“While physical distancing is important to reduce the spread of COVID-19, physical activity also must be used as a public health strategy during the pandemic and beyond. This would help people cope during the global crisis, and maintain healthy behaviors post pandemic,” said Dr. Stefanie Meyer, lead author of the study titled Physical Distancing ≠ Physical Inactivity. Meyer is assistant professor of practice in Public Health at North Dakota State University and a faculty fellow at the Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth.
Published: Jan 26, 2021
New pre-clinical histology data show that Vaxart’s oral vaccine protected against lung inflammation in hamster models
An article published in Nature Medicine reports data from a collaboration with Stanford University researchers on in vitro activity of Vaxart’s COVID-19 vaccine
Data from Vaxart’s Phase I COVID-19 trial expected to be released next week
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Vaxart Inc., (NASDAQ: VXRT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing oral vaccines that are administered by tablet rather than by injection, announced today additional results from its SARS-CoV-2 Hamster Challenge Study, as well as a peer-reviewed publication in Nature Medicine resulting from a collaboration with prominent Stanford University scientists on COVID-19 vaccine candidates.
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New estimates reveal extent of the health burden of armed conflict affecting at least 630 million women and children worldwide in 2017, and contributing to more than 10 million deaths among children under 5 years of age over 20 years.
Changing nature of war is a growing threat to humanitarian access and the provision of essential health services for women and children, but responses in countries like Syria, Pakistan, and Colombia may provide context-specific innovative ways forward.
Armed conflicts are becoming increasingly complex and protracted and a growing threat to humanitarian access and the delivery of essential health services, affecting at least 630 million women and children over 8% of the world s population in 2017, according to a new four-paper Series exposing the far-reaching effects of modern warfare on women s and children s health, published today in
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Researchers observe decision making in brain – and influence outcomes
A team of neuroscientists and engineers have developed a system that can show the neural process of decision making in real time, including the mental process of flipping between options before expressing a final choice. By Taylor Kubota
In the course of deciding whether to keep reading this article, you may change your mind several times. While your final choice will be obvious to an observer – you’ll continue to scroll and read, or you’ll click on another article – any internal deliberations you had along the way will most likely be inscrutable to anyone but you. That clandestine hesitation is the focus of research, published Jan. 20 in Nature, by Stanford University researchers who study how cognitive deliberations are reflected in neural activity.
People who start learning an instrument at a young age have super connected brains compared to people who aren t musicians, according to a new study.
Experts from Stanford University School of Medicine compared the brains of 153 volunteers - including professional musicians, non-musicians and those with absolute pitch - the ability to recognise a tone without a reference.
They found that those that began training at a younger age - such as Mozart - have stronger brain connections than those who picked up their instrument later in life.
The discovery, published in the journal JNeurosci, shows just one of the ways in which people s experiences can shape the brain, the team explained.