by American Chemical Society Higher numbers of microplastics of various shapes, such as sheets (left) and fibers (right) were found in the feces of people with IBD than in healthy controls. Credit: Adapted from Environmental Science & Technology 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c03924 Microplastics—tiny pieces of plastic less than 5 mm in length –– are everywhere, from bottled...
by Northwestern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine visiting the doctor, answering a few basic questions and getting an on-the-spot estimate of whether you’ll experience heart failure in the next 30 years. Such a model now exists, thanks to a new Northwestern Medicine study, which derived and validated the first set of risk prediction models for lifetime risk of heart...
by Princeton University Princeton University researchers discovered that microbes living in the human digestive tract can inactivate the antidiabetic drug acarbose, which may affect the drug’s efficacy in patients and impact on the microbiome. By tracing the mechanism, the team identified a new microbiome-encoded enzyme, called Mak1, that modifies acarbose, causing its inactivation. This diagram depicts...
by The Mount Sinai Hospital In a pilot study, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai showed that AI algorithms that rely on electrocardiogram and electronica health records may one day help doctors screen for pulmonary embolisms. Credit: Gicksberg and Nadkarni labs, Mount Sinai, N.Y., N.Y. Pulmonary embolisms are dangerous, lung-clogging blot clots....
Shingles is an uncomfortable condition caused by the same virus responsible for chickenpox. The shingles vaccine is a safe and effective tool that can help prevent the condition in eligible adults. The varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a DNA virus that belongs to the herpesvirus group. After a person recovers from chickenpox, the VZV can remain...
by The Mount Sinai Hospital Summary Figure of information shift from single neurons to populations. Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Mount Sinai scientists have discovered a neural mechanism that is believed to support advanced cognitive abilities such as planning and problem-solving. It does so by distributing information from single neurons to larger populations of neurons...
RJ Pierce, Tech Times 21 December 2021, 01:12 am (Photo: Getty Images ) (Photo : Pixabay/ Jan Vašek ) A neuromuscular stimulator from the company First kind Ltd has finally gotten market approval from the US FDA. Notebookcheck.net reports that the new smartwatch-like device, which is called Geko, looks very much like a smartwatch and fits around...
The sensor detects temperature, pH, bacteria type, and inflammatory factors specific to chronic wounds within 15 minutes, allowing for fast and accurate wound assessment. Given the rapidly aging population, healthcare providers are seeing more patients suffering from non-healing wounds such as diabetic foot and chronic venous leg ulcers. Estimates suggest that about 2% of the...
A medication typically used for treating diabetes, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA), could also be used to prevent cardiovascular disease and major cardiovascular events, but a new study showed inequities in its use based on race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Looking at four years of data, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston)—Emergency room and urgent care clinics are typically busy and patients often have to wait many hours before they can be seen, evaluated, and receive treatment. Waiting for x-rays to be interpreted by radiologists can contribute to this long wait time because radiologists often read x-rays for a large number...
