NIH/NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE IMAGE: STUDY AUTHOR LINGQIU JIN TESTS THE ROBOTIC CANE. CREDIT: IMAGE COURTESY OF CANG YE, VCU Equipped with a color 3D camera, an inertial measurement sensor, and its own on-board computer, a newly improved robotic cane could offer blind and visually impaired users a new way to navigate indoors. When paired with...
(HealthDay)—The use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to complement clinician-reported outcomes (CROs) may yield important information for assessing disease severity and guiding treatment of psoriasis, according to a research letter published online Sept. 8 in JAMA Dermatology. John S. Barbieri, M.D., and Joel M. Gelfand, M.D., both from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine...
The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at people taking immunosuppressive medications to treat chronic inflammatory diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Since a minimum level of antibodies needed for protection hasn’t been established, it has been difficult to say whether the levels achieved by people on immune suppressing drugs are...
MONASH UNIVERSITY IMAGE: LEAD AUTHOR, PROFESSOR YUMING GUO CREDIT: MONASH UNIVERSITY The first study into the global impact of wildfire-related pollution and deaths comprehensively links short term exposure to wildfire-related fine particulate matters (PM2.5) in the air and all-cause, respiratory and cardiovascular mortalities across cities and regions around the globe. The landmark study, published today...
by McKenzie Ridings, Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: DOI: 10.1542/peds.2021-050405 Childhood obesity is a growing problem, with especially high rates in Hispanic and Black children and in families with low income. In a recent randomized clinical trial in a largely Hispanic, low-income population, children who participated in a pediatric weight management program delivered at community health centers significantly improved...
by Kristin Samuelson, Northwestern University Credit: DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4945 Certain racial and ethnic minorities develop type 2 diabetes at a younger age than white Americans, meaning current diabetes screening and prevention practices for them may be inadequate and inequitable, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. American adults are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at an average age of 50...
By Grant Currin on August 27, 2021 YouTube’s new strategy aims to elevate credible health information. Credit: Getty Images When someone searches YouTube for a health-related term such as “COVID-19,” most results will now prominently feature content from government agencies and health care organizations that the platform trusts to provide reliable information. The World Health Organization, the Mayo Clinic,...
by University of Oslo Credit: CC0 Public Domain Protein in the blood did not have the function researchers believed in the interaction between two of the body’s defense systems. Professor Tom Eirik Mollnes and colleagues thereby changed an established truth. An established truth in the research literature means that most researchers agree that a research finding...
(HealthDay)—Sleep disorders seem to be highly prevalent among children with migraine and are associated with higher headache severity, according to a study published online Aug. 14 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. Alessandra Voci, from the Tor Vergata University of Rome, and colleagues examined the correlation between headache features and sleep in pediatric migraine. Parents of children and...
by Lund University A montage of three images of single striatal neurons transfected with a disease-associated version of huntingtin, the protein that causes Huntington’s disease. Nuclei of untransfected neurons are seen in the background (blue). The neuron in the center (yellow) contains an abnormal intracellular accumulation of huntingtin called an inclusion body (orange). Credit: Wikipedia/ Creative...
