by Max Witynski, University of Chicago Some individuals with aphantasia—a recently-characterized condition that causes a lack of visual memory—have reported that they don’t understand what it means to ‘count sheep’ before going to bed, because they cannot visualize sheep without seeing them. Credit: Tanner Yould on Unsplash If you were asked to draw a picture of...
by Marilynn Marchione This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases – Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. According to two new studies released on Tuesday, Dec....
Max Gelman Associate Editor Christmas has come early for Urovant Sciences as the former Vivek Ramaswamy outfit scored an FDA approval for its lead program. James Robinson The biotech’s overactive bladder candidate vibegron will be the newest drug to hit the market, the agency said Wednesday, giving Urovant its first approved product. Vibegron, a beta-3...
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL Boston — As colleges and universities consider strategies for the spring semester to keep COVID-19 cases down, a study conducted by experts in epidemic modeling may help shed light on what mitigation strategies may be most effective, both in terms of infections prevented and cost. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital,...
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Doctors can better help patients with mental health concerns by adopting a different questioning style around self-harm and suicide, experts have said. New research warns patients may find it difficult to disclose thoughts of self-harm because of the way in which GPs ask about them. Academics who examined consultations found that GPs...
by Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone In this July 27, 2020, file photo, a nurse prepares a shot as a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway in Binghamton, N.Y. The U.S. is poised to give the green light as early as Friday, Dec....
by University of Exeter Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Robust evidence from a large international study confirms that a difference in blood pressure readings between arms is linked to greater risk of heart attack, stroke and death. Led by the University of Exeter, the global INTERPRESS-IPD Collaboration conducted a meta-analysis of all the available research, then merged...
by John Hewitt , Medical Xpress Credit: Wikipedia Autoinflammatory syndromes are often the result of genetic mutations that ultimately compromise neutrophils, macrophages and other cells of the innate immune system. Rather than showering sufferers with broad immunosuppressives, a more satisfactory response can frequently be obtained using select anti-inflammatory drugs like anti-TNF or anti-IL-1β. A similar...
By JOE PINKSTONE FOR MAILONLINE Chemotherapy could be up to 34 per cent more effective thanks to a new technique which combines the treatment with magnetic particles that fry cancerous cells. Researchers at University College London found the combination of heat and chemo drugs makes the process more effective. Tiny magnetic nanoparticles attach themselves to the cancerous cells...
Medical dialogue systems may converse with patients and make a diagnosis automatically. Conventional dialogue generation models cannot be directly applied to such scenarios because of the lack of medical knowledge. A recent study addresses the lack of suitable models in this domain and introduces an end-to-end dialogue system for the medical dialogue generation. Image credit: pxfuel.com,...
