Medscape Medical News Klaus Fleck, MD May 02, 2024 BERLIN — To date, mRNA vaccines have had their largest global presence in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Intensive research is underway on many other potential applications for this vaccine technology, which suggests a promising future. Martina Prelog, MD, a pediatric and adolescent medicine specialist at the...
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BIOMEDICALNEWS”Snake-like” Probe Images Arteries from Within The new fiber-optic probe could transform aneurysm and brain clot treatments
ELIE DOLGIN Clinicians at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto used the new imaging probe to evaluate narrowed brain arteries in a patient with atherosclerosis. ST. MICHAEL’S FOUNDATION Neurosurgeon Vitor Mendes Pereira has grown accustomed to treating brain aneurysms with only blurry images for guidance. OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FIBER OPTICS BRAIN IMAGING Equipped with a rough...
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Endoscopic Procedure Targets ‘Hunger Hormone’ for Weight Loss
Medscape Medical News > Conference News > DDW 2024 Damian McNamara, MA May 09, 2024 Updated May 13, 2024 // Editor’s note: The story has been updated with additional comments from Dr Loren Laine of Yale School of Medicine. Ablation of the gastric fundus to reduce production of the “hunger hormone” ghrelin resulted in decreased...
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Researchers develop method to monitor patients with spinal muscular atrophy using sound waves
MAY 15, 2024 by Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nurnberg Credit: Med (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.02.010Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a terrible disease in which a genetic mutation causes certain nerves responsible for sending signals to muscles to degenerate. This leads to muscles wasting away, and many patients have died a painful death due to this rare condition. Genetic...
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New study links autism spectrum disorder to disrupted developmental dopamine – ASD
by Eileen Leahy, Chhavi Chauhan, PhD, Elsevier Behavioral analyses in zebrafish with disrupted dopaminergic signaling during development. Credit: The American Journal of Pathology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2024.02.014Recent evidence suggests that dopamine plays a crucial role in neural development. In a novel study, investigators demonstrated the link between disrupted developmental dopamine signaling and autism spectrum disorder (ASD)....
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Chiropractic associated with lower likelihood of tramadol prescription in adults with sciatica – physical medicine
by University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study led by researchers at University Hospitals Connor Whole Health has found that adults initially receiving chiropractic spinal manipulation for newly diagnosed radicular low back pain (sciatica) were significantly less likely to be prescribed tramadol over the following year compared to those receiving...
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Robots built from frog cells have unlocked the ability to self-replicate
BY HANNAH SEO In nature most organisms reproduce by either mating and producing offspring, or creating clones of themselves. But a new mode of propagation is on the scene—new living robots can self-replicate by clustering cells and creating offshoots of themselves. Let’s break down what that actually means. These robots are called xenobots—they’re synthetic lifeforms made from...
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Testosterone/CVD Risk Debate Revived by New Meta-Analysis
A new systematic literature review adds complexity to the controversy over testosterone’s relationship to risk for myocardial infarction, stroke, cardiovascular death, and all-cause mortality. Last year, the TRAVERSE (Testosterone Replacement Therapy for Assessment of Long-term Vascular Events and Efficacy ResponSE in Hypogonadal Men) trial was the first randomized, placebo-controlled study designed and powered to determine...
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Platelet Cells That Appear With Aging Lead to Blood Clotting and Disease
A secondary population of platelets appears with aging that increases the risk of blood clotting diseases.News Published: May 15, 2024 | Original story from the University of California, Santa Cruz Read time: 3 minutesAs people age, they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, when blood cells called platelets clump together when they don’t need...
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Next-gen Ozempic rewires brain for easier, long-term weight loss
By Bronwyn Thompson The 2.0 weight-loss drugs will target the brain’s plasticity Depositphotos The current breakthrough weight-loss drugs are only the beginning, according to Danish researchers hard at work on a new treatment that targets the brain’s natural plasticity, which could offset bad side effects and provide more long-term benefits. “I consider the drugs available...