by University College London Credit: CC0 Public Domain The first clinical trial of a new dietary treatment for children and adults with severe forms of epilepsy, co-developed by UCL researchers and based on the ketogenic diet, has been successfully completed. For the study, published in Brain Communications, clinicians evaluated the use of K.Vita, (also known as Beta shot),...
(HealthDay)—Guidelines for the treatment of people with or at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have been updated, according to a report published in the July 23 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Kimberly A. Workowski, M.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues updated guidelines...
by Alice McCarthy, Children’s Hospital Boston Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers are observing a new long-term health concern in patients hospitalized with COVID-19—an increase in new-onset hyperglycemia lasting months after infection. An Italian study found that about half of the patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 during the start of the pandemic had new cases...
UNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER IMAGE: UNC LINEBERGER’S WILLIAM KIM, MD, AND COLLEAGUES REPORT THEIR RESEARCH DEMONSTRATED THAT PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED BLADDER CANCERS WHOSE TUMORS HAVE A MUTATED FGFR3 GENE RESPOND TO IMMUNOTHERAPY IN A MANNER THAT IS SIMILAR TO PATIENTS WITHOUT THAT MUTATION. THIS DISCOVERY RUNS COUNTER TO PREVIOUS RESEARCH THAT SUGGESTED FGFR3-MUTATED BLADDER...
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce Fri, July 23, 2021 Nurse practitioner Nicole Monk, 44, receives a coronavirus vaccination at the LA Mission homeless shelter on Skid Row, in Los Angeles, California, on February 10, 2021. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters One in five people that tested positive for COVID-19 in LA County in June were fully vaccinated. Vaccinated people who...
JULY 19TH, 2021 CONN HASTINGS 100Plus, a California MedTech company, created a suite of remote patient monitoring technologies. These include a digital weight scale, blood pressure cuff, thermometer, and blood glucose monitor. The company recently launched Ava, an AI-powered healthcare assistant that is specifically intended for senior patients who may not be tech-savvy or as...
by Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter Dementia is largely a disease of old age, but a new study finds that up to 5% of all cases are among people in the prime of their lives. Looking at 95 international studies, researchers estimated that nearly 4 million people worldwide are living with young-onset dementia—cases that strike between the...
Rebecca Pifer, Reporter Dive Brief: Americans’ medical debt may have reached $140 billion last year, significantly higher than past estimates and outweighing all other types of personal debt in the U.S., according to a new study published in JAMA. Researchers analyzed a tenth of all credit reports from rating agency TransUnion to find nearly one in five Americans...
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE/UW MEDICINE Researchers want sexual assault survivors to know that it’s normal to feel awful right after the assault, but that many will feel better within three months. In a meta-analysis published in Trauma, Violence & Abuse, researchers found that 81% of sexual assault survivors had significant symptoms of post-traumatic...
SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE Every day, people are exposed to a variety of synthetic chemicals through the products they use or the food they eat. For many of these chemicals, the health effects are unknown. Now a new study shows that several hundred common chemicals, including pesticides, ingredients in consumer products, food additives, and drinking water contaminants, could...
