by Mark Derewicz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A first-of-its-kind tool to help expand care for patients with eating disorders is now available to primary care physicians across the U.S. The NCEED Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for Eating Disorders (SBIRT-ED) tool lets providers quickly...
by Keck School of Medicine of USC Human cystic kidney organoid. Credit: Cheng (Jack) Song/McMahon Lab In a new study in Cell Stem Cell, scientists from the USC laboratory of Andy McMahon generated simple kidney-like structures called organoids and used them to identify potential drugs to treat adult-onset polycystic kidney disease. Affecting 8 million patients worldwide,...
by Cactus Communications Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Body composition—the distribution of bone, muscle, and fat in the body—can yield vital information on the metabolic and nutritional status of a patient. Several studies have demonstrated the impact of abnormalities such as sarcopenia, which is a gradual decline in skeletal muscle mass and/or strength, and obesity, defined...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center A video fluoroscopic swallow study. Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center Swallowing fluoroscopy is the most common diagnostic test for patients with swallowing problems caused by conditions such as stroke, head and neck cancer, neurodegenerative disease, or prolonged intubation. Despite widespread use, there has been no standard practice to guide its...
Tyler Patchen News Reporter A new report from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General accuses the FDA of not following its policies around foreign drug inspections, and recommends some improvements. The OIG report, released on Thursday, found that the FDA has not always followed its policies and procedures for...
JULY 1, 2022 by Chris Melore IRVINE, Calif. — Scientists have discovered the molecular signal which triggers potent hair growth in both men and women. The discovery of this signaling molecule, SCUBE3, may finally put an end to baldness and hair loss conditions such as alopecia. Researchers from the University of California-Irvine say dermal papilla cells...
By Hidaya Aliouche, B.Sc. Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Antibiotic treatment alters the composition and magnitude of got microbiota species. Overall, antibiotics reduce species’ diversity and include the loss of key functional taxa, resulting in shifts in metabolism, increasing the susceptibility of the gut to colonization, and the stimulation of bacterial antibiotic resistance. The therapeutic...
As reported in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, researchers examined the role of perineural invasion—defined as when cancer invades the nerves—in oral cancer, and found that while perineural invasion is important, the distance between nerves and cancer may be as important in terms of patient outcomes. Broadening the definition of perineural invasion could give oral cancer patients better...
In patients with serious and long-term COVID-19, disturbed blood coagulation has often been observed. Now, researchers at LiU have discovered that the body’s immune system can affect the spike protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to the production of a misfolded spike protein called amyloid. The discovery points to a possible connection between...
When medications and lifestyle accommodations stop helping someone fight advanced kidney disease, the person’s path forward narrows appreciably. Kidney doctors typically prescribe dialysis treatment, which, with luck, will extend the patient’s life until they qualify for an organ transplant. There exists another path, though, in which the patient recognizes the paucity of available donor organs, the...
