by Max Esterhuizen, Virginia Tech Tanner DeHart and Brandon Jutras are two of the researchers that discovered the unique bacterial property. Photo by Alex Crookshanks for Virginia Tech. Credit: Virginia Tech You don’t have to go far to find ticks. Just step outside and look for some grass. Look to the top of the shiny,...
by University of East Anglia Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A medication originally used for patients with diabetes is the first to help people with heart failure and could revolutionize treatment, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Early research had shown that Sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors could help around half of heart failure patients—those...
by Center for BrainHealth This figure shows changes in cognitive assessment scores for individuals in each group (CN=cognitively normal, MCI=mild cognitive impairment, AD=Alzheimer’s disease) at the start of the study and after 4 weeks. Credit: Center for BrainHealth A good night’s sleep plays an essential role in regulating brain health by removing the waste material...
by University of Waterloo Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the first study of its kind to explore caffeine’s effects on dynamic visual skills, researchers concluded that caffeine increases alertness and detection accuracy for moving targets. Caffeine also improved participants’ reaction times. “A lot of what happens in our environment is moving—like trying to cross a...
by Hanae Armitage, Stanford University Medical Center Michael Snyder is one of the senior authors of a study showing a smartwatch can warn wearers they may be infected with a virus. Credit: Paul Sakuma Using data from smartwatches, a new algorithm reads heart rate as a proxy for physiological or mental stress, potentially alerting wearers...
FRONTIERS Can long Covid kill? Striking findings presented in a new study published to Frontiers in Medicine show that patients who survive severe Covid-19 have more than twice the risk of dying over the following year, compared with those who experience mild or moderate disease or remain uninfected. Unusually, the increased risk of dying was greater for...
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Children with poorly controlled asthma are three to six times more likely to be hospitalised with Covid-19 than those without the condition, research suggests. Experts advise that 5 to 17 year olds with poorly controlled asthma should be considered for vaccination to reduce the risk of infection and the spread of Covid-19...
by NYU Langone Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain Smoking has long been associated with Erectile Dysfunction (ED) and Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). However, little research has explored if there is a similar association among men who use Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), commonly referred to as e-cigarettes. In the first population-based study of its kind, researchers...
