Medicine and Health

Six U.S. research institutions are launching the first-ever multicenter network to study diabetic foot ulcers, a common and burdensome complication of diabetes and the leading cause of lower limb amputations in the United States.

A cheap and easy blood test for inflammation may help determine which COVID-19 patients will benefit from getting steroids.

All volunteers in a small clinical trial who were given an experimental vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Oxford made antibodies against a protein the virus uses to break into cells. Those participants also produced immune cells called T cells that are important for long-lived immunity

A small clinical trial from USC suggests that higher doses of omega-3 supplements may be needed in order to prevent or slow cognitive decline from Alzheimer’s disease, because dramatic increases in blood levels of omega-3s are accompanied by far smaller increases within the brain.