Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Moderna said Wednesday that tainted batches of its COVID-19 vaccine sent to Japan were contaminated with stainless steel particles, but the company did not expect it posed “an undue risk to patient safety.” The US biotech firm is facing major setbacks in Japan, with hundreds of thousands of doses suspended following...
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy” Aristotle Important note: the purpose of the following article is to introduce and explain some concepts related to depression. It should NOT be treated as a diagnosis nor...
by Will Doss, Northwestern University Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD, the Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine, was senior author of the study published in JAMA Cardiology. Credit: Northwestern University Postmortem genetic testing, or genomic autopsy, of young individuals who experienced sudden death revealed many had known genetic variants that are associated with cardiomyopathy, according to a...
by Ian M. MacKay, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Scientists in South Africa have discovered a new viral variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It’s not a single virus but a clustering of genetically similar viruses, known as C.1.2. The researchers, in a pre-print study released last week but yet to be peer reviewed, found this cluster has picked up...
by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center A new Cedars-Sinai study suggests that genes are more likely to cause high blood pressure in women than in men. Credit: Cedars-Sinai. Researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute suggest that, contrary to common belief, the risk of developing high blood pressure has more to do with genetics in women than in men....
by Adam Harringa Credit: Sasha Wolff/Wikipedia Evidence that opioids provide pain relief for migraine headaches is low or insufficient, a large Mayo Clinic meta-analysis published recently in JAMA has found. However, some newer therapies, along with established migraine treatments, were associated with moderate to high evidence of pain relief. The meta-analysis – which combined results from multiple scientific studies...
A pilot study conducted by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine combined wearable technology and patient-reported outcomes to assess the efficacy of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment in osteoarthritis (OA). The results, published in the journal Regenerative Medicine, showed that a single injection of leukocyte-rich/PRP in the knee joint significantly improved functional mobility, pain and quality of...
IMAGE: THE FILAMENT COILS AROUND A MEMBRANE TUBE AND, UNDER GTP HYDROLYSIS, FORMS ACTIVE CROSS-BRIDGES THAT COLLECTIVELY CONSTRICT THE MEMBRANE. CREDIT: KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY Cells in the human body constantly receive substances from the outside via a process called endocytosis. One important endocytosis pathway involves the formation of a protrusion within the cell membrane, pointing to...
by University of Würzburg Liver tissue with innate lymphoid cells (ILCs), visualised here as red dots. Credit: Ye Ouyang / University of Wuerzburg When pathogens invade the human body, a rapid response is required. At the forefront of the immune response are special immune cells. They reside in various tissues such as the lungs, liver, skin...
by Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Metoprolol, a drug widely used to treat cardiovascular disease, is beneficial when administered to COVID-19 patients. This is the finding of a study by investigators at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), published today in the Journal of the American College of...
