Posted Today Children with severe epilepsy also experienced improvements in their quality of life after taking low doses of the medicinal cannabis oil, according to research published in Frontiers in Neurology. The study tested the effects of medicinal cannabis oil with 95 per cent CBD, a chemical which does not create a high, and five percent THC,...
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There Are Two Kinds of AI, and the Difference is Important
Most of today’s AI is designed to solve specific problems. Popular Science|Dan Baum Today’s artificial intelligence is certainly formidable. It can beat world champions at intricate games like chess and Go, or dominate at Jeopardy!. It can interpret heaps of data for us, guide driver less cars, respond to spoken commands, and track down the answers to your internet search...
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Protect your heart in the heat
by Suzanne Grant, American Heart Association Credit: CC0 Public Domain With much of the nation facing a heat advisory this weekend, the American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, is urging people to take precautions to protect their hearts. Hot temperatures and high humidity can cause a dangerous heat...
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New method helping to find deletions and duplications in the human genome
by Sam Sholtis, Pennsylvania State University A new machine-learning method accurately identifies regions of the human genome that have been duplicated or deleted—known as copy number variants—that are often associated with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The new method, developed by researchers at Penn State, integrates data from several algorithms that attempt to identify copy number variants from exome-sequencing data—high-throughput DNA sequencing of only the...
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SPR Therapeutics’ neuromodulation system treats phantom-limb pain
by Joe Carlson Medical device company SPR Therapeutics makes a neuromodulation system in Minnesota that can treat pain in a person’s limbs—even limbs that were amputated long ago. Treating phantom-limb pain is just one of the applications for the Sprint peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) system, a medical device that has been shown to create long-lasting...
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Metabolic reprogramming of branched-chain amino acid facilitates drug resistance in lung cancer
by Chinese Academy of Sciences Despite the remarkable success of molecular targeted therapy in recent years, the rapid increase of drug resistance is a major obstacle to effective treatment of lung cancer. How do lung cancer cells adapt to targeted therapy? What is the molecular basis of such adaptive behavior? Can this adaptive response be memorized by cancer cells? If so,...
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Adults with cerebral palsy at higher risk for osteoporosis
Neil E. O’Connell, Ph.D., from Brunel University London, and colleagues used data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (1987 to 2015) to identify 1,705 adults with CP and 5,115 controls matched for age, sex, and general practice. The researchers found that adults with CP had an increased risk for osteoporosis in both unadjusted (hazard ratio, 3.67) and adjusted...
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D-mine Pump for Continuous Delivery of Parkinson’s Meds
JULY 9TH, 2019 MEDGADGET EDITORS MEDICINE, NEUROLOGY EVER Pharma, based in Austria, won CE Mark approval and is releasing its D-mine Pump in Europe. Designed to deliver apomorphine hydrochloride, a dopamine agonist medication used to treat Parkinson’s, it has a few features that are tailored for the patients that it is intended to treat. Apomorphine hydrochloride helps many...
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Gravity of dialysis treatment appears to elude many patients
New research suggests that people who undergo dialysis treatment for end-stage kidney disease tend to be overly optimistic about their life expectancy, relative to national mortality data for that patient population. This optimism might limit the benefit of planning for a late-stage illness and fuel the aggressive end-of-life care that these patients often receive, the authors said. JAMA Internal Medicine...
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Pain signalling in humans more rapid than previously known
Pain signals can travel as fast as touch signals, according to a new study led by researchers from Linköping University. The discovery of a rapid pain-signalling system challenges our current understanding of pain. The study has been published in the scientific journal Science Advances. It has until now been believed that nerve signals for pain are always conducted more slowly than those for touch. The latter...