The coronavirus can cause insomnia and long-term changes in our nervous systems. But sleep could also be a key to ending the pandemic.By James Hamblin Peter Cade / GettyDECEMBER 21, 2020SHARE The newly discovered coronavirus had killed only a few dozen people when Feixiong Cheng started looking for a treatment. He knew time was of the...
By Rich Haridy September 20, 2021 Using principles of exposure therapy, an app allows users to encounter virtual spiders to help overcome their fearsUniversity of Basel, MCNVIEW 1 IMAGES A new smartphone app developed by researchers at the University of Basel is using augmented reality to help reduce a person’s fear of spiders. In a...
First Ever Telehealth Awareness Week Is September 19 through 25 Merck Manuals, a comprehensive online medical reference, has updated its section on “Making the Most of a Healthcare Visit” with a timely discussion about using telemedicine in advance of the first annual Telehealth Awareness Week. A recurring point made in the expanded essay is that with all healthcare visits,...
by University of Birmingham Credit: CC0 Public Domain Humans read by ‘pre-processing’ written words to create a pipeline of meaning, according to new research at the University of Birmingham. A study, published in Nature Communications, shows that each pre-processing judgment can take place extremely rapidly—within just 100ms after the eye lands on the previous word. The neuronal activity...
by Karen Schmidt, American Heart Association Credit: CC0 Public Domain A year of exercise training helped to preserve or increase the youthful elasticity of the heart muscle among people showing early signs of heart failure, a small study shows. The new research, published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, bolsters the idea that “exercise is medicine,”...
by The Endocrine Society scientificanimations.com, CC BY-SA 4.0 The most common hormone disorder affecting women of reproductive age—polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)—cost an estimated $8 billion to diagnose and treat nationwide in 2020, according to a new economic analysis published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. PCOS is a common disorder characterized by irregular menstrual periods, disruption of normal...
by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute A common antibiotic has been found to reduce low birth weight and premature births, if taken during pregnancy, in countries where malaria is endemic, according to a research review. Credit: Atharva Whaval A common antibiotic has been found to reduce low birth weight and premature births, if taken during pregnancy, in...
by Georgetown University Medical Center Micrograph showing cortical pseudolaminar necrosis, a finding seen in strokes on medical imaging and at autopsy. H&E-LFB stain. Credit: Nephron/Wikipedia A phase II, randomized clinical trial found that the optimal period for intensive rehabilitation of arm and hand use after a stroke should begin 60 to 90 days after the event. The study,...
by Dennis Thompson Healthday Reporter Millions of U.S. sleep apnea patients are scrambling to find ways to protect their nightly slumber, following a voluntary recall from one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of CPAP breathing machines. Philips Respironics agreed to a voluntary recall of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines in late June, over concerns that noise-dampening...
By PROF. KARIM FIZAZI, MEDICAL ONCOLOGIST, INSTITUTE GUSTAVE ROUSSY AND PROFESSOR IN ONCOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS-SACLAY, VILLEJUIF, FRANCE CREDIT: ESMO Lugano, Switzerland, 19 September 2021 – A novel combination of well-known drugs prolongs survival in patients with hormone/castration-sensitive prostate cancer, according to late breaking research presented at the ESMO Congress 2021. (1,2) The PEACE-1 and STAMPEDE studies found that the addition of abiraterone acetate plus prednisolone (AAP) to standard therapy lengthened survival compared...
