Posted Today Doctors may soon be able to more accurately diagnose concussions by measuring the number of certain molecules in a person’s saliva, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. The results of a recent clinical study confirmed that a patient’s spit may be used to aid concussion diagnosis in a non-invasive, non-biased fashion. Researchers analyzed the...
By Nick Lavars November 25, 2020 Facebook Twitter Flipboard LinkedIn An impression of Mycobacterium tuberculosis,the bacteria that causes tuberculosisiLexx/DepositphotosVIEW 1 IMAGES While drugs are available to treat tuberculosis, like so many other bacterial infections the disease is becoming more and more resistant to the best medications currently on offer. Scientists at Canada’s University of Guelph have...
by Doug Dollemore, University of Utah Health Sciences Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Every 11 minutes, an American dies by suicide. That’s 132 people a day or more than 48,000 annually. For those left behind, the haunting question is why. One emerging factor is family history. Perhaps the most famous example is Ernest Hemingway’s family. In addition to...
Posted Today A new method for analysing the structure of skin using a type of radiation known as T-rays could help improve the diagnosis and treatment of skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis and skin cancer. A demonstration of how the T-ray equipment can be used to scan an individual’s skin. Image credit: University of Warwick...
Technology Org Science and technology news Posted Today In a new study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have studied CYP2C19 and CYP2D6 genes impact on treatment with antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs. The study shows that control of the patient’s genotype can be used to individualize the drug treatment and lead to...
Thought LeadersDr. Nirmal RobinsonDr. Vincenzo DesiderioDr. Antonio Barbieri News-Medical spoke to researchers Dr. Nirmal Robinson, Dr. Vincenzo Desiderio, and Dr. Antonio Barbieri about their latest research into beta-blockers, and how they could potentially be used to treat COVID-19. What provoked your research into the current COVID-19 pandemic? We have been working on adrenergic receptors for...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the causative pathogen of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – has infected over 61.1 million people worldwide and caused over 1.43 million deaths. As scientists continue to probe for effective pharmaceutical interventions against SARS-CoV-2, a new study reports a very promising monoclonal antibody, HB27, that appears to have...
Drug to reduce bleeding could treat COVID-19 A recent study has shown that aprotinin, a drug that reduces the risk of bleeding during surgery, can stop the novel coronavirus from entering host cells. The drug could serve to prevent severe cases of COVID-19, the authors say. Share on PinterestImage credit: MirageC / Getty Images. With...
by Örebro Universitet Atherosclerosis is a condition affecting the cardiovascular system. If atherosclerosis occurs in the coronary arteries (which supply the heart) the result may be angina pectoris, or in worse cases a heart attack. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY 3.0 The protein CARD8 regulates several inflammatory proteins in people with atherosclerosis. This is shown in a...
Posted Today New research has identified and described a cellular process that, despite what textbooks say, has remained elusive to scientists until now – precisely how the copying of genetic material that, once started, is properly turned off. The finding concerns a key process essential to life: the transcription phase of gene expression, which enables cells...
