by Sarah Wallwork and Lorimer Moseley, The Conversation Credit: Kindel Media from PexelsBack pain is common. One in 13 people have it right now and worldwide a staggering 619 million people will have it this year. Chronic pain, of which back pain is the most common, is the world’s most disabling health problem. Its economic impact...
Reports and Proceedings KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET ANDERS KJELLBERGCREDIT: MARTIN STENMARK High-dose pressurized oxygen can stress out old immune cells, leaving behind a younger, better functioning immune system. It helped with acute COVID, and now Anders Kjellberg is testing the method for post-covid as well. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, giving patients 100 percent oxygen at a pressure corresponding...
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU)Sleep helps consolidate our memory of complex associations, thus supporting the ability to complete memories of whole events. Researchers had known for some time that sleep consolidates our memories of facts and episodic events. However, the research to date has concentrated mainly on simple associations – that is to say, connections between elements,...
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Credit: CC0 Public DomainAny drug that is taken orally must pass through the lining of the digestive tract. Transporter proteins found on cells that line the GI tract help with this process, but for many drugs, it’s not known which of those transporters they use to exit the digestive tract. Identifying...
Intravenous (IV) administration of the antiplatelet agent tirofiban for 72 hours was associated with a reduction in early neurologic deterioration compared with oral aspirin therapy in patients with acute ischemic stroke, in the randomized TREND trial. The results were presented at the International Stroke Conference 2024, held on February 7-9 in Phoenix, Arizona. Lead author...
Anne-Gaëlle Moulun A significant quantity of dysfunctional monocytes appears to indicate poor cardiovascular prognosis in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a new publication. Nicolas Venteclef, PhD, director of an Inserm institute for diabetes research at Necker Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris, France, led the research. Quantifying InflammationPatients with type 2 diabetes have about...
by Stephanie Baum , Tech Xplore General scheme of ADAM elements from back and front view. Credit: Frontiers in Neurorobotics (2024). DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1337608Worldwide, humans are living longer than ever before. According to data from the United Nations, approximately 13.5% of the world’s people were at least 60 years old in 2020, and by some estimates,...
by University of Southern California Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainCycles of a diet that mimics fasting can reduce signs of immune system aging, as well as insulin resistance and liver fat in humans, resulting in a lower biological age, according to a new USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology-led study. The study, published in Nature Communications on...
by American College of Physicians Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA study of more than 250 persons undergoing surgical therapy for Cushing’s disease (CD) or nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) found that patients who achieved remission of CD were more likely than those with surgically treated NFPAs to develop new-onset autoimmune disease within three years after remission. The study...
by Bill Snyder, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Timeline and process overview. Credit: Nature Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-02796-zAn analysis of genomic data from nearly 250,000 participants in the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program has identified more than 275 million previously unreported genetic variations, nearly 4 million of which have potential health consequences.The data,...
