by Trinity College Dublin Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of scientists from Trinity College Dublin and investigators from FutureNeuro has announced a major discovery with profound importance for our understanding of brain fog and cognitive decline seen in some patients with long COVID. The work appears in Nature Neuroscience.In the months after the emergence of...
by Washington University School of Medicine Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA simple blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease soon may replace more invasive and expensive screening methods such as spinal taps and brain scans. A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Lund University in Sweden shows that a blood test...
by The Mount Sinai Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) system can match, or in some cases outperform, human ophthalmologists in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with glaucoma and retina disease, according to research from New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE). The provocative study, published...
Lara Salahi Ashley Winter, MD, remembers the first time she Googled the skin condition lichen sclerosus. Most of the websites listed the autoimmune condition as a rare disease. In the realm of genital health, some conditions remain shrouded in silence and consequently are more likely to go undercounted and underdiagnosed, Winter, a urologist based in...
Christina Szalinski More than half the cells in the human body are not human — they’re microbes. Each microbe makes unique molecules, or metabolites, and studying them is crucial for understanding the microbiome’s role in health and disease. But with so many microbes and metabolites floating around — literally trillions — how can you tell...
by Valerie Goodwin, University of Michigan Credit: Jacob Dwyer, Justine Ross / Michigan MedicineSystemic sclerosis causes the skin to tighten and harden resulting in a potentially fatal autoimmune condition that is associated with lung fibrosis and kidney disease. University of Michigan Health researchers have studied the pathology of systemic sclerosis to understand better the disease and...
Written by Angela Haupt | Reviewed by Patricia Pinto-Garcia, MD, MPH Key takeaways: Blood clots can happen anywhere in the body but are common in the legs. Clots can also break off and travel to the lungs.Risk factors for blood clots include surgery, sitting for a long time, and taking hormonal birth control.If you have...
By Paul McClure Radioactive fructose illuminated cancer cells and brain and heart inflammation on a PET scanKirby et al./Journal of Nuclear Medicine A radioactive form of fructose, a natural sugar found in fruit, given to mice lit up areas of cancer and inflammation on a diagnostic medical scan. The researchers say the approach makes diseases easier...
By Reuters REUTERS Signage is seen outside of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, U.S., August 29, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers on Wednesday against using smartwatches or smart rings that claim to measure blood glucose levels without piercing the skin, regardless of...
by The Mount Sinai Hospital blood donationCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA novel treatment for polycythemia vera, a potentially fatal blood cancer, demonstrated the ability to control overproduction of red blood cells, the hallmark of this malignancy and many of its debilitating symptoms in a multi-center clinical trial led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
