AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS IMAGE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MONITORING FOR HPV (AIM-HPV) DEVICE FOR POINT-OF-CARE HPV TESTING. CREDIT: ISMAIL DEGANI (CENTER FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL) WASHINGTON, March 30, 2021 — Emerging technologies can screen for cervical cancer better than Pap smears and, if widely used, could save lives both in developing nations and parts...
CACTUS COMMUNICATIONS IMAGE: Various treatment options exist for psoriasis, and they differ in terms of potential effects on a patient’s risk of cardiovascular events. A recent review article in the Chinese Medical Journal can help dermatologists and their patients understand those effects. CREDIT: ESTZER MILLER ON PIXABAY Psoriasis is a chronic disease that causes patients...
By Loz Blain; March 29, 2021 The windows of your soul can reveal an extraordinary amount about you, especially when a machine learning algorithm is watching hquality/DepositphotosVIEW 2 IMAGES Eye tracking technology is starting to pop up more and more, keeping track of where you’re looking and how your pupils and irises are reacting for...
by Stanford University Medical Center Lung cancer cells. Credit: National Cancer Institute Analyzing a national cancer database, researchers find a bump in diagnoses at 65, suggesting that many wait for Medicare to kick in before they seek care. A couple of years ago, Joseph Shrager, MD, professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford School of Medicine, noticed...
Earlier studies have shown that supplementary vitamin D seems to provide a certain degree of protection against respiratory infections. A new study involving researchers from Karolinska Institutet has now made the most comprehensive synthesis to date of this connection. The study, which is published in the journal Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, confirms that vitamin D...
by Josh Barney, University of Virginia Dr. Daniel “Trey” Lee, a pediatric oncologist and director of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant and Immunotherapy at UVA Children’s and the UVA Cancer Center. Credit: Dan Addison, University Communications Children and young adults who receive CAR T-cell therapy for the most common childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, suffer remarkably fewer...
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF SLEEP MEDICINE DARIEN, IL – The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recently published an update on the use of telemedicine for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders to reflect lessons learned from the transition to telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic and the benefits of continuing to utilize remote care when appropriate. While the...
ESTONIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL IMAGE: THE PREVALENCE OF THE Y-CHROMOSOMAL HAPLOGROUP R1A1-M458 CARRYING A FIXED R2/R3 INVERSION. (A) GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF HAPLOGROUP R1A1-M458 AND ITS SUB-LINEAGES IN EUROPE. PIE CHARTS INDICATE POPULATIONS, WITH THE BLACK SECTOR SHOWING THE PROPORTION OF R1a1-M458 ACCORDING TO UNDERHILL et al., 2015. CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF TARTU The findings published in eLife show that...
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS IMAGE: ALCOHOL INFLUENCES EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS AFFECTING DIFFERENT BIOMOLECULES’ FUNCTIONING–DRUG DESIGN SEARCHES FOR COMPOUNDS THAT MODULATE EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS. REPRESENTATIONS OF BIOMOLECULES ARE FROM PROTEIN DATA BANK; CODE FOR HISTONES IS 3AFA, DNA representation is from doi.org/105281/zenodo.4012404. CREDIT: DR. F. DAVID RODRIGUEZ Abusive alcohol drinking considerably impacts human health. Alcoholism, better defined as Alcohol...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Nearly one in seven Britons who tested positive for COVID-19 continued to have symptoms for at least 12 weeks, according to a UK study released Thursday. The Office for National Statistics said the study of over 20,000 people who had tested positive from April last year to March this year found...
