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The NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative announced today that it has issued contract awards totaling $77.7 million to develop and
/PRNewswire/ -- BioFluidica, a privately held biotechnology company in conjunction with the University of Kansas, today announced they have been awarded a...
UOG seeks Pacific Islanders for COVID-19 study Pacific Daily News View Comments Pacific Islander volunteers are being sought for a University of Guam–led study seeking to learn more about their knowledge and understanding of COVID-19 and COVID-19 testing. Pacific Islanders — defined as the indigenous people of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Tonga, Hawaii and Palau — collectively have among the highest morbidity and mortality rates associated with COVID-19 in the United States, according to a UOG news release....
Go to Brief Summary: The pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in substantial global morbidity and mortality including in Oklahoma and caused unprecedented interruptions in nearly all aspects of our lives. The population of the state of Oklahoma is at particular risk to SARS-CoV-2 due to its large rural population, strained healthcare system, and poor overall health. The Community-Engaged Approaches to Testing in Community and Healthcare Settings for Underserved Populations (CATCH-UP) program will involve both practice-based and community-based approaches to maxi...
Wearable devices offer new insights into the progression of Type 2 diabetes in Latino adults In one of the first studies of its kind, medical and engineering researchers have shown wearable devices that continuously monitor blood sugar provide new insights into the progression of Type 2 diabetes among at-risk Hispanic/Latino adults. The findings by researchers from Sansum Diabetes Research Institute (SDRI) and Rice University are available online this week in EClinicalMedicine, an open-access clinical journal published by The Lancet. "The fresh look at the glucose data sheds new light on dis...