By Maddie Bender on June 1, 2022 Credit: Thomas Fuchs If pimples are caused by oily skin, why doesn’t a good washing prevent all breakouts? A recent study offers an answer— and maybe a new line of defense. Pimples contain tiny and discrete bacterial infections. The most commonly involved bacteria are Cutibacterium acnes, which live innocuously on skin cells but...
By Claudia Wallis on June 1, 2022 Credit: Fatinha Ramos “Cartilage doesn’t heal.” That’s what doctors often tell us when we injure the flexible tissue that lines our hips, knees and shoulders or when osteoarthritis has eroded it so that our joints hurt when we move. I’ve certainly heard it myself from orthopedic surgeons who explain that cartilage...
By Dan Levine June 14, 2022 (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators rejected a request to remove popular anti-baldness pill Propecia and its generic versions from the market, but for the first time required patient notification about reports of suicidal behavior in men taking the drug. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has previously approved revised Propecia labels...
Ericka L. Adler, JD, LL.M June 14, 2022 One of the most common inquiries I receive from physician clients is how to properly terminate a patient relationship. Perhaps it’s a patient who refuses to honor payment terms or repeatedly cancels with little or no notice. Maybe it’s a patient who refuses to follow through on...
NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS A team of researchers from HSE University, Skoltech, MPGU, and MISIS have developed a nanophotonic-microfluidic sensor whose potential applications include cancer detection, monitoring and treatment response assessment. Today, the device can identify gases and liquids dissolved at low concentrations with a high degree of accuracy. The paper is...
by Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown Neurons (in red) and brain glial cells (in green) are illuminated in the fly brain. Credit: Rhiner Lab, The Champalimaud Foundation. One of the most devastating aspects of stroke and traumatic brain injury is that the neurons we lose are never replaced. This means that depending on the injury...
by University of California, Irvine Co-first author and Anatomy & Neurobiology graduate student, Alexa Tierno, holds a mouse brain made transparent to visualize connections between nerve cells in the entire brain. An image of neurons in medial entorhinal cortex projecting to transplanted interneurons in damaged hippocampus is shown in the background. Credit: UCI School of...
by La Jolla Institute for Immunology Scientists from La Jolla Institute for Immunology and the Institut Pasteur have shed light on the structure of the rabies virus glycoprotein, seen here. Credit: Heather Callaway, Ph.D., LJI Rabies virus kills a shocking 59,000 people each year, many of them children. Some victims, especially kids, don’t realize they’ve...
By Michael Irving June 16, 2022 Adding a booster protein called interleukin-7 drastically improves CAR T cell immunotherapy effectiveness Depositphotos Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found that adding a booster protein can significantly improve the outcome of cancer immunotherapy. Tests in mice showed the protein produced 10,000 times more immune cells, with...
by Zara Abrams, University of Southern California Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain To help protect older adults from financial exploitation, researchers are working to understand who is most at risk. New findings from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, published this week in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, suggest that willingness to give away money could...
