IMAGE: SEVEN DAYS AFTER MTBI, THE BLOOD VESSELS (STAINED IN RED) IN THE TISSUES AROUND THE BRAIN ARE NOT COMPLETELY REPAIRED. A MARKER FOR INTACT VESSELS WAS USED (LABELED IN GREEN) TO DISTINGUISH FULLY FUNCTIONAL BLOOD VESSELS (YELLOW) FROM ONES THAT ARE STILL DAMAGED (RED). CREDIT: MCGAVERN LAB, NINDS Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other...
A Cross-sectional Study Humberto Yévenes-Briones, MS1; Francisco Félix Caballero, PhD1; Ellen A. Struijk, PhD1; et al Jorge Rey-Martinez, MD, PhD2; Lourdes Montes-Jovellar, MD, PhD3; Auxiliadora Graciani, MD, PhD1,4; Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo, MD, PhD1,4; Esther Lopez-Garcia, PhD1,4Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. Published online September 23, 2021. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2021.2399Key Points Question Is hearing loss associated with impaired physical function, frailty, and disability in older adults? Findings In this cross-sectional study of 1644 older adults from the Seniors-ENRICA-2 cohort study, hearing loss...
By Isabella Cueto Sept. 23, 2021 (STAT) Reprints JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES Nearly 100 doctors and scientists issued a consensus statement Thursday warning of possible links between the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and developmental problems in children, including neurological and reproductive issues that start in the womb. In a paper published by Nature Reviews Endocrinology, the...
By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 05:46 Vials of the Israeli drug Codivir(photo credit: Courtesy)A team of Israeli scientists say that a drug previously used in an uncontrolled fashion to treat HIV has a direct antiviral effect against coronavirus, sending patients home virus-free within only a few days. Code Pharma, which is headquartered in the Netherlands but...
By Ben Coxworth September 22, 2021 One of the “micro-robotic-swimmers,” groups of which may someday be used for targeted drug delivery Cornell University Although many scientists have been working on microscopic “robots” that could deliver drugs to specific locations within the body, one challenge remains – powering the things without the use of bulky onboard...
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY IMAGE: THIS MICRONEEDLE PATCH COULD SOMEDAY REPLACE A NEEDLE FOR DELIVERING COVID-19 VACCINES. CREDIT: ADAPTED FROM ACS NANO 2021, DOI: 10.1021/ACSNANO.1C03252 More than 2 billion people worldwide are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. However, many who live in resource-limited countries haven’t been able to get vaccines, partly because these areas lack temperature-controlled shipping...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: A SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE IMAGE SHOWS A CELL-SIZE ROBOTIC SWIMMER THAT CAN BE POWERED AND STEERED BY ULTRASOUND WAVES. CREDIT: CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA, N.Y. — Scientists at Cornell University have created cell-size robots that can be powered and steered by ultrasound waves. Despite their tiny size, these micro-robotic swimmers – whose movements were...
ANN & ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO A surprising discovery may offer a promising new direction in the study of multiple sclerosis and other diseases of hypomyelination – when axons of neurons are not covered sufficiently in fatty sheaths (myelin), which disrupts communication between nerve cells. While investigating potential mechanisms of brain tumor...
PENN STATE HERSHEY, Pa. — Can specific dietary guidelines help people living with bipolar disorders better manage their health? Maybe someday, according to a new study by Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Clinical trial results showed that a diet designed to alter levels of specific fatty acids consumed by participants may help patients have less variability...
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH CARE CHAPEL HILL, NC – A newly developed immunotherapy that simultaneously uses modified immune-fighting cells to home in on and attack two antigens, or foreign substances, on cancer cells was highly effective in mice implanted with human neuroblastoma tissue, report researchers from the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UNC School...
