by Baylor College of Medicine Chemical structure of vitamin B12. Credit: Wikipedia A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions has shed new light into the complexity of vitamin B12 diseases. The scientists studied two rare inherited vitamin B12 conditions that affect the same gene but are clinically distinct from the...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M. D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER HOUSTON ― A blood test, combined with a risk model based on an individual’s history, more accurately determines who is likely to benefit from lung cancer screening than the current U.S. recommendation, according to a study published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology led by researchers...
JANUARY 7, 2022 Researchers in Austria say a new MRI technique may lead to faster diagnosis and treatment for people with multiple sclerosis. The technique can detect biochemical changes in the brains of people with MS early in their disease, according to findings published Jan. 4 in the journal Radiology. “MRI of neurochemicals enables the detection...
JANUARY 7, 2022 by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Credit: TNE / EPFL After lying for a while in a way that puts pressure on a nerve in your arm, you do not feel the arm anymore, you cannot perceive its location and size, and it feels like it does not belong to your own body....
JANUARY 7, 2022 by Ken Kingery, Duke University David Needham working on new formulations for niclosamide that could help prevent COVID-19 treatments according to early-stage benchtop studies. Credit: David Needham, Duke University Mechanical engineering and materials science professor David Needham has shown that a slight increase in solution pH might be all it takes to turn...
JANUARY 8, 2022 by Georgia Institute of Technology Rendering of brain/neurons firing (NIH). Credit: NIH Severe and persistent disability often undermines the life-saving benefits of cancer treatment. Pain and fatigue—together with sensory, motor, and cognitive disorders—are chief among the constellation of side effects that occur with the platinum-based agents used widely in chemotherapy treatments worldwide. A...
JANUARY 7, 2022 by The Ottawa Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ontario saw nine times more emergency department (ED) visits per month for cannabis poisonings in young children under the age of 10 after Canada legalized recreational cannabis, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. While single hospitals have reported on child cannabis poisonings...
JANUARY 7, 2022 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain U.S. regulators on Friday shortened the time that people who received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine have to wait for a booster—to five months rather than six. The two-dose Moderna vaccine is open to Americans 18 and older. The Food and Drug Administration’s decision Friday means Moderna recipients are eligible...
Zarrin Hossain January 05, 2022 Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with a number of risk factors and now new research, published in Diabetes Care, suggests that increased levels of liver fat and a smaller pancreas volume may also add to a greater risk of developing T2D. Head of Research Communications at Diabetes UK, Dr. Lucy Chambers, commented that this breakthrough...
by The Ohio State University Figure 1. NZM2410 colonized with SFB exhibit intensified kidney disease with elevated immune-complex deposition. 10-week old mice were oral gavaged with fecal matter from mice harboring SFB or control mice and sacrificed at 30-weeks of age and subjected to biochemical analysis. (A) Serum blood urea nitrogen (BUN). (B) Kidney disease...
