by National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, causing widespread inflammation and damage in the affected organs. It can affect the joints, skin, brain, lungs, kidneys, and blood vessels. Asian...
by Matthew Perrone and Lauran Neergaard In this Sept. 14, 2021, file photo, a health worker administers a dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pa. An influential federal advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday, Sept. 17, to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to...
by Morgan Henderson, Morgane Mouslim, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Health researchers have long argued that the key to reining in surging health care costs is to tackle the high prices of services, and one potential way to do this is to provide patients with price transparency. That is, if people know how much a procedure such as a...
by Patrick Jackson, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Even with three highly effective vaccines available in abundance throughout the country, the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 continues to cause a large number of new infections, particularly in states where vaccination rates remain low. What’s more, as schools and businesses reopen and the holiday season approaches, another rise in infections may...
by University of Sydney Credit: Pin Adventure Map/Unsplash Women with some cardiac conditions receive less evidence-based treatment than their male counterparts, research published today by the Medical Journal of Australia has confirmed. Researchers from the University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital and Concord Repatriation General Hospital, assessed differences in the evidence-based treatment received by men and women with non-ST-elevation acute...
by Electron Microscope Image Is Of A Mucin Network Composed Of Muc5Ac and Muc5B (Credit: Ehre Lab), University of North Carolina School of Medicine Electron microscope image is of a mucin network composed of MUC5AC and MUC5B. Credit: Ehre Lab Mucus is an essential protective layer of gel-like liquid composed largely of proteins called mucins throughout...
by Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The biological clock/circadian rhythm is the mechanism that ensures that a certain physiological process takes place at a specific time of the day or night. It is coordinated by the brain at a general level, but each organ or tissue is also subjected to specific regulation....
The scientific community is very broad, and there are many groups within that community whose members intermittently produce studies that are either poorly designed, poorly conducted, or poorly presented and explained. Or all three, for all of the usual reasons. Constraints of time and funding, institutional pressure to publish, the involvement of external interests, and...
by American Heart Association A blood clot forming in the carotid artery. Credit: copyright American Heart Association A naturally occurring protein that blocks an inflammatory immune response was associated with better stroke recovery in a study conducted in mice, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Heart Association’s Vascular Discovery: From Genes to...
by Doug Donovan, Johns Hopkins University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It’s shaping up to be a big week for news on two eagerly awaited developments involving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine: Booster shots and progress toward its first doses for children as young as five. The Food and Drug Administration is set to decide whether to accept its...
