Sleep is possible when the body temperature declines at night as part of the 24-hour rhythm. The new mattress stimulates the body to trigger the sleepy feeling, helping people fall asleep faster and improving the quality of sleep. “We facilitate the readiness to fall asleep by manipulating internal body temperature-sensitive sensors to briefly adjust the...
Annual screenings of patients at high risk for lung cancer can catch tumors early and improve a patient’s long-term prognosis. However, low-dose computer tomography (LDCT) has a high false-positive rate that can lead to unnecessary biopsies. The researchers found a biomarker in the blood that can complement LDCT by distinguishing non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) from benign nodules...
Cancers in humans have all sorts of ways to survive and thrive: Cells and tumors use devious means to deflect, deceive, and evade detection by our bodies’ immune systems. Take how they fend off anti-cancer vaccines, for example. Cancer cells in the body, whether singularly or consolidated, essentially cloak themselves through chemical secretions to remain...
JULY 21ST, 2022 CONN HASTINGS EXCLUSIVE, NEUROLOGY, NEUROSURGERY, REHAB Blackrock Neurotech, a medtech company based in Salt Lake City, has pioneered an array of brain-computer interface technologies. Medgadget last spoke with Blackrock Neurotech a year ago about their thought-to-text brain computer interface, but since the company signed an agreement with a research institution to develop portable brain computer interface...
by Jeff Hansen, University of Alabama at Birmingham Isolation of SARS-CoV-2 S2-specific human monoclonal antibodies (hmAbs). (A) Schematic representation of the S2-STBL and S1/S2 chimera proteins used as baits for ELISA and flow cytometry. (B) Human plasma from either convalescent or healthy subjects was diluted 1:1000 in PBS and tested in duplicate in an ELISA...
by Noah Fromson, University of Michigan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An artificial intelligence-driven device that works to detect and predict hemodynamic instability may provide a more accurate picture of patient deterioration than traditional vital sign measurements, a Michigan Medicine study suggests. Researchers captured data from over 5,000 adult patients at University of Michigan Health with the Analytic...
by Alex Viveros, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Credit: Susanna Hamilton, Broad Communications Physician-scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered that a gene called FOXR2 that is normally turned off in most tissues in the body is activated in at least 70% of cancer types and...
by University of Sydney Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain We often hear the phrase ‘growing pains’ used by the general public to describe muscle or joint pain in young people and the term is also used by health professionals. However researchers have found there is no consistent medical definition of the condition behind a diagnosis. A...
by Anglia Ruskin University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The way in which a patient is told they have serious eye disease can impact their psychological health and ability to cope with their condition in the long-term, according to new research published in the open-access journal BMJ Open. A research team led by Dr. Jasleen Jolly, of...
by University of Oxford Association between trigger finger and carpal tunnel syndrome. Data from UK Biobank. (A) Overlap between trigger finger and carpal tunnel syndrome in UK Biobank, annotated with the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures (OPCS) codes that were used...
