by University of Tsukuba Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Japan reveal that they may just have found a way to repair cardiac damage in patients suffering from chronic heart attack and heart failure. In a study published in Circulation, researchers from the University of Tsukuba have shown that changing heart cell programming by tweaking the...
By MANSUR SHAHEEN DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 15:44 EST, 16 December 2022 | UPDATED: 18:42 EST, 16 December 2022 America’s dreaded ‘tripledemic’ looks set to be short-lived, with weekly flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) figures already on the decline. Today’s weekly flu report shows there were just over 30,000 confirmed flu infections nationwide during the week ending...
by Trinity College Dublin Human cells expressing inflammatory cytokines (stained green). Credit: Professor Martin Laboratory; Trinity College Dublin Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have made an important breakthrough in understanding how inflammation is regulated. They have just discovered that a key immune alarm protein previously believed to calm down the immune response actually does the...
by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Skeletal muscle fibers. Credit: Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library / Public domain During aging, mice, like humans, become inactive and lose muscle mass and strength. A team of scientists led by Johan Auwerx at EPFL have now discovered that when mice age, their muscles become packed with ceramides....
Miriam E. Tucker December 13, 2022 New more aggressive targets for blood pressure and lipids are among the changes to the annual American Diabetes Association (ADA) Standards of Care in Diabetes — 2023. The document, long considered the gold standard for care of the more than 100 million Americans living with diabetes and prediabetes, was published December 12 as a supplement in Diabetes...
A bone density scan, also known as a DEXA scan, is a procedure that measures the amount of calcium and other minerals in a bone by passing x-rays with two different energy levels through the bone. It shows the strength and thickness of a bone and is usually done in the lower spine, hip, lower...
By LUKE ANDREWS HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 10:29 EST, 14 December 2022 | UPDATED: 11:03 EST, 14 December 2022 More than 3,500 Americans have died with ‘long Covid’, a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found. Deaths have been overwhelmingly among people over 85 years old and those with chronic underlying health conditions such as heart...
by University of Vienna Outline of the suggested pathomechanisms. Monocytes may be specifically affected in patients with LCS In the course of chronic viral infection, there is evidence for a decrease in the occurrence and activities of M1 macrophages accompanied with an increase in M2-like macrophage activities. The indicated M1-derived molecules were found downregulated in...
December 07, 2022 NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― About 21% of teens newly diagnosed with epilepsy experience suicidal ideation, and the percentage jumps to 31% within 3 years, new research reveals. Dr Hadley Greenwood “We hope these results inspire epileptologists and neurologists to both recognize and screen for suicide ideation and behaviors in their adolescent patients,” study investigator Hadley Greenwood, third-year...
Pauline Anderson December 05, 2022 NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― Targeting relevant sleep problems for patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) improves cognition, results of a new, double-blind, randomized controlled trial suggest. Study findings show significant improvement in REM sleep and language scores for patients with TLE who took the cholinesterase inhibitor donepezil and better slow-wave-sleep and memory...
