11 April 2023 Natural light profoundly affects our biology, from how well we sleep, to our brain function and immune response. The ancient Egyptians used solar radiation to disinfect and heal chronic wounds and ulcers as far back as 5000 BC, making light therapy one of the oldest therapeutic methods used by humans. Now evidence...
Dr Sheena Meredith, MB BS, MPhil | Disclosures | 05 April 2023 A new non-invasive diagnostic test for oral cancer test developed by researchers at the University of Surrey is said to be over 92% accurate at detecting oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and more than 80% accurate at identifying pre-cancerous oral epithelial dysplasia (OED), according to a proof-of-concept...
By Z Paige L’Erario on March 31, 2023 A positron-emission tomography (PET) scan of a human brain on a screen on January 9, 2019, at the University Hospital Center of Brest in France. Credit: Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images “Stop faking!” Imagine hearing those words moments after your doctor diagnosed you with, say, a stroke or a brain tumor. That sounds...
by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Between 13% and 84% of postmenopausal women experience dyspareunia—vaginal pain during sex—but the condition is rarely evaluated or treated despite the availability of safe and effective therapies. With life expectancy increasing and the functional health of older adults improving, the identification and treatment of painful...
by American Physiological Society Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study shows that cardiovascular strain begins at lower temperature and humidity levels than those that cause increases in the body’s core temperature, and could inform revisions to safety guidelines and policies that help protect people during heat waves. Researchers will present their work this week at the American Physiology...
April 18, 2023 Español Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines to simplify the vaccination schedule for most individuals. This action includes authorizing the current bivalent vaccines (original and omicron BA.4/BA.5 strains) to be used for all doses administered to...
Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM Chronic wounds are a major health problem for diabetic patients and the elderly – in extreme cases they can even lead to amputation. Using electric stimulation, researchers in a project at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the University of Freiburg, Germany, have developed a method that speeds up the healing...
By Chuck Dinerstein, MD, MBA — April 18, 2023 “Our findings suggest that the αSyn-SAA technique is highly accurate at detecting the biomarker for Parkinson’s disease regardless of the clinical features,” says Luis Concha, Ph.D., “making it possible to accurately diagnose the disease in patients at early stages.” For those in the Parkinson’s Disease community, this is...
Christine Clarridge Illustration: Eniola Odetunde/Axios Syphilis infections in Seattle-area women have risen to epidemic levels, vaulting from 117 cases of early syphilis in 2021 to 190 cases in 2022, according to the latest data from Public Health-Seattle & King County. As recently as 2017, 63 women were diagnosed with syphilis countywide, according to public health data. Why...
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE A qualitative case series research study sponsored by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and published in Clinical Diabetes provides the first published examples of protocols to help guide clinical decision making on when and how to deprescribe medications following successful lifestyle medicine interventions to treat patients with type 2 diabetes. The results of the case series are...
