Authors Thomas Valley, Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Michael Sjoding, Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School Susan Dorr Goold, Professor of Internal Medicine and Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan Medical School Disclosure statement Thomas Valley receives funding from the National...
Sarah Scoles January 21, 2020 Some of the hearing loss we’ve blamed on age might be due to how many fire trucks we’ve stood next to. But there are still ways to diagnose—and protect—against that environmental damage.Anthony Gerace Tucked inside the air traffic control tower in Portland, Maine, Samantha Bassett was busy making sure planes didn’t...
BY VICTOR TANGERMANN / A DAY AGO According to UK researchers, the fast spreading B117 variant of the coronavirus may be responsible for increasing the death rate by 30 to 40 percent, The Guardian reports. In a publicly filed document, the UK’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) announced that “preliminary analyses” showed “that there may...
by Judy George, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today January 20, 2021 The migraine prevention drug erenumab (Aimovig) was associated with elevated blood pressure (BP), an FDA analysis of postmarketing case reports suggested. Of 61 erenumab-linked hypertension cases submitted to the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), 41 were associated with a serious outcome according to regulatory criteria,...
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study suggests that a lot of people might be going through life with symptoms that resemble concussion – a finding supporting researchers’ argument that athletes recovering from a brain injury should be assessed and treated on a highly individualized basis. In the national study, between 11% and...
by Duke University School of Nursing Long, thin, well-defined muscle fibers (top left) are in shambles after prolonged inflammation (top right), but maintain their structure (bottom left) and strength (bottom right) when exercised during the inflammation. Credit: Zhaowei Chen, Duke University Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated that human muscle has an innate ability to...
By Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. Reviewed by Sophia Coveney, B.Sc. The early diagnosis of most types of skin cancer is directly related to improved survival rates. The DermaSensor device is a revolutionary, non-invasive and spectroscopy-based tool that can assist clinicians in early skin cancer diagnosis. An overview of skin cancer As the most common type of cancer to affect individuals...
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Loneliness in adults aged 50 and over during the COVID-19 lockdown was linked to worsening depressive and other mental health symptoms, according to a large-scale online study. Loneliness emerged as a key factor linked to worsening symptoms of depression and anxiety in a study of more than 3,000 people aged 50 or...
AMERICAN ROENTGEN RAY SOCIETY IMAGE: A and B, True-positive assessments in 58-year-old woman (A) and 52-year-old man (B) with high-risk NAFLD and associated NASH. CT images show hepatic enlargement, heterogeneously low-attenuation hepatic parenchyma, and surrounding ascites. Readers correctly identified NASH according to these imaging features. Readers also correctly identified fibrosis stage F3. C and D,...
by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Killer T cells surround a cancer cell. Credit: NIH The year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of a fundamental discovery that’s taught in every biochemistry textbook. In 1921, German physician Otto Warburg observed that cancer cells harvest energy from glucose sugar in a strangely inefficient manner: rather than “burn” it...
