by Northwestern University 3-D model of Ketamine. Credit: Wikipedia Ketamine is the speedster of antidepressants, working within hours compared to more common antidepressants that can take several weeks. But ketamine can only be given for a limited amount of time because of its many side effects. Now, a new Northwestern Medicine study identifies for the...
By Jonathan Moens June 1, 2022 The visual display of the Neurolith device helps clinicians know what brain regions they are targeting using sound waves. STORZ MEDICAL BERLIN — Looking more like a barber than a doctor, orthopedic surgeon Musa Citak squirted gel on his patient’s head and massaged the gooey substance into his scalp...
by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.04.020 In studies in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have identified a chemical compound that stops the final events in the pathway linked to the death of brain cells in Parkinson’s disease. Results of the experiments, they say, could advance the development...
Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images Few of the 23 million Americans with lingering symptoms are getting answers – in this dangerous void, alternative providers and wellness companies have created a cottage industry Katie ThorntonThu 2 Jun 2022 02.00 EDT Robert McCann, a 44-year-old political strategist from Lansing, Michigan, sleeps for 15 hours – and when he...
by Tulane University Portrait of Tony Hu, the Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Biotechnology Innovation at Tulane University School of Medicine. Credit: Sally Asher, Tulane University Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine have developed a new highly sensitive blood test for tuberculosis (TB) that screens for DNA fragments of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria that causes...
any cancer treatments are notoriously savage on the body. Drugs often attack both healthy cells and tumor cells, causing a plethora of side effects. Immunotherapies that help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells are no different. Though they have prolonged the lives of countless patients, they work in only a subset of patients....
Richard Van Noorden A crematorium in Meissen, Germany, during a surge in COVID-19 infections in January 2021. Credit: Filip Singer/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Scientists working with the World Health Organization (WHO) have corrected some surprising errors in its estimates of how many deaths the pandemic has caused, after a flurry of questions about the original WHO report, issued in...
Diana Kwon The brain’s immune system includes a network of transport vessels (blue) and its own immune cells made in the bone marrow (green). Credit: Siling Du, Kipnis lab, Washington University in St. Louis The brain is the body’s sovereign, and receives protection in keeping with its high status. Its cells are long-lived and shelter...
A romantic story has the potential to get incredibly moving and significant. It can reveal the advantage of love as well as the strength that can come from it. It can train us it does not matter where we could or what our history is, we could find like if we merely try. There are...
The survey, which asked more than 6,000 teens, young adults, and adults ages 13-40 about their vaping habits, is the first to examine non-nicotine vaping in a national sample. Although some of these non-nicotine substances are safe when ingested, inhaling them in vaporized form could harm the lungs, scientists say. Several chemicals, solvents, and flavors...
