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Jillian K Tarani, RN, PMHCNS Clinical Nurse Specialist - Psych/Mental Health, Child & Adolescent Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 119 Russell St, Littleton, MA 01460 Phone: 978-679-1200

Katherine Marie Davis, RN,CNS Clinical Nurse Specialist - Psych/Mental Health Medicare: Medicare Enrolled Practice Location: 119 Russell St, Suite 30, Littleton, MA 01460 Phone: 978-679-1200    Fax: 978-486-4037

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Scientists discover factors that reduce breast screening effectiveness

Scientists have found evidence that the reduced effectiveness of breast screening in women in their 40s is mainly due to their tumours being harder to detect, rather than because they grow faster.Previous research has suggested that breast screening is less effective in women in their 40s than in older women.Two reasons have been identified for this - firstly, that younger women tend to have denser breast tissue which makes it harder to detect tumours on a mammogram; and secondly, because younger women's tumours tend to grow more quickly.

Only two states in U.S. require HPV vaccination

An examination of state vaccination requirements for adolescents finds that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is currently required in only two states, many fewer than another vaccine associated with sexual transmission (hepatitis B) and another primarily recommended for adolescents (meningococcal conjugate), according to a study in the July 14 issue of JAMA.

Vaccine against cervical cancer and genital warts looks hopeful

More than two thirds of sexually active women will become infected with human papillomavirus (HPV) during their lifetime. HPV causes around 470 000 cases of cervical cancer each year and even though most cases of cervical cancer occur in the developing world, where cervical screening programmes are in the main non-existent, in Europe and the US 35000 women die from the disease every year.

Phosphorylation of SARS-CoV-2 N protein affects its function

Now, a new study by researchers at the University of California San Francisco and published on the preprint server bioRxiv* in June 2020 shows the effect of phosphorylation on the state and function of the N protein.

McGill researcher develops speedier technique for predicting protein folding pathways

Protein folding has nothing to do with laundry. It is, in fact, one of the central questions in biochemistry. Protein folding is the continual and universal process whereby the long, coiled strings of amino acids that make up proteins in all living things fold into more complex three-dimensional structures.

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