by Elsevier Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP), published by Elsevier, reports that, combinatorial pharmacogenetics-guided treatment did not demonstrate improved outcomes for adolescents with depression compared to those who received treatment as usual. Further research however is needed to determine how single medication-gene pairs...
by Deborah Burnett, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In November last year, Australians began to feel a wave of optimism that COVID would no longer define their everyday existence. Soaring vaccination rates provided some measure of confidence the threat from COVID was beginning to recede. But by mid-December, this wave of hope had been...
by Liz Ahlberg Touchstone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Family caregivers are often involved in the day-to-day activities of their older relatives, such as communicating with doctors, helping them navigate the health care system and making decisions that affect their care. When the pandemic hit, forcing health care systems to switch...
Watch out, Matt Murdock — there may be a new Daredevil in Hell’s Kitchen soon enough! While Murdock’s superhero character relies on super hearing, taste, and electrical impulses to see because he is blind, IRL folks with low vision may soon have access to a new pair of goggles that uses infrared technology to assist...
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — While research has long shown a higher risk of death linked to alcoholism for people with overweight, a new study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence has found that people with underweight who drink excessively may be at an even higher risk of dying from heart disease,...
(HealthDay)—Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the hand and foot may predict rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients presenting with undifferentiated arthritis (UA), according to a study published online Jan. 12 in Rheumatology. Nikolet K. den Hollander, M.D., Ph.D., from the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, and colleagues studied the predictive value of MRI for progression...
by Indiana University School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A large data analysis led by Indiana University School of Medicine Professor Benjamin Gaston, MD, shows a rare respiratory disease called primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is more common than previously thought. Recently published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, the analysis aimed to gage the global prevalence and genetic variance of...
by Leiden University SARS-CoV-2 S–Specific Immune Responses. Credit: DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2116747 A coronavirus booster shot provides a better immune response against COVID-19 than a single vaccine dose. mRNA boosters are the most effective upon receiving Janssen. These are the results of a collaborative study between several organizations, including the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). The findings...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Credit: Getty An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched. The index, called OpenAlex after the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt, also aims to chart connections between these data points to create a comprehensive, interlinked database of the...
Posted Today If there’s a single truth that associate professor of nursing Emma Mitchell knows from 10 years of fighting cervical cancer, it’s this: Tailored approaches work. They work in rural areas like Southwest Virginia, where cervical cancer mortality is two to three times higher than elsewhere in the state. They work in global settings, where stigma...
