by Sharita Forrest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Artificial sweeteners such as sucralose provide the seductive taste of sweetness without the calories contained in sugar—a seeming win-win for people who need to control their blood sugar and insulin levels or weight. However, simply tasting or consuming sucralosemay affect blood glucose and insulin levels on glucose...
On a frosty January morning in a Minneapolis suburb, Abigail Hansmeyer leaves her car engine running and takes out a brown paper bag carrying needles and a vial, handing it over to its recipient in an anonymous shopping center parking lot. The exchange is technically illegal, but these aren’t illicit drugs. Instead, the vial contains...
MEDGADGET EDITORS | INFORMATICS, MEDICINE, PEDIATRICS The FDA has cleared the CapMedic device that helps to make sure that metered dose inhalers (MDIs) are properly used, even by young patients. MDIs are most commonly employed to deliver asthma medications deep into the lungs, but to work effectively they have to be used correctly and on...
by McGill University There remains a controversy in scientific circles today regarding the value of lithium therapy in treating Alzheimer’s disease. Much of this stems from the fact that because the information gathered to date has been obtained using a multitude of differential approaches, conditions, formulations, timing and dosages of treatment, results are difficult to...
by Case Western Reserve University A new drug that could make it easier for doctors to diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) in its earlier stages has been approved for its first human trials by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Created by Case Western Reserve researchers, the drug known as Myeliviz will be tested in...
When we cut our skin, groups of cells rush en masse to the site to heal the wound. But the complicated mechanics of this collective cell movement — which are facilitated by rearrangements between each cell and its neighbors — have made it challenging for researchers to decipher what’s actually driving it. “If we can...
Millions of people in the United States and around the world experience some degree of smell loss or dysfunction of their sense of smell. This can have a severe impact on individuals’ well-being, as a new study demonstrates. People whose sense of smell becomes compromised experience difficulties in various aspects of their lives, new research...
Project is the first to test green algae on symptoms related to human digestion UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO A widespread, fast-growing plant called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is famous in scientific laboratories due to its position as the world’s most exhaustively studied algae. For decades, the green, single-celled organism, which primarily grows in wet soil,...
by Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca The entire set of our emotions is topographically represented in a small region of the brain, a 3-centimeter area of the cortex, report scientists in a study conducted at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy. The discovery of this “map” of emotions comes from work conducted by...
by Megan Schumann, Rutgers University Rutgers researchers have found that a test widely used to diagnose whether children have autism is less reliable than previously assumed. The study is published in the journal Neural Computation. The standardized test, known as the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), assesses communication skills, social interactionand play for children who...
