JULY 23, 2024 by Amsterdam University Medical Centers Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainCommercial arm robots are increasingly deployed in order to aid stroke patients in their recovery. Around 80% of patients have problems with their arm function. Robots are also seen as a solution to financial, and staffing, shortcomings in the health care sector. However, research...
JULY 23, 2024 by Tayler Shaw, CU Anschutz Medical Campus Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainAfter publishing research in 2022 that compared the effectiveness of four common medications for type 2 diabetes, University of Colorado Department of Medicine faculty member Neda Rasouli, MD, and a national team of researchers decided to delve deeper into their data to...
JULY 23, 2024 by Brian Consiglio, University of Missouri Graphical abstract. Credit: The Journal of Physiology (2024). DOI: 10.1113/JP286069Nearly 40 million adults in the U.S. have sleep apnea, and more than 30 million of them use a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine while sleeping. However, the machines tend to be expensive, clunky and uncomfortable—resulting...
JULY 23, 2024 by Sanford-Burnham Prebys hiPSC-derived LOs are susceptible to infection with multiple strains of SARS-CoV-2, validated in primary human lung epithelia. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2408109121Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys, University of California San Diego and their international collaborators have reported that more types of lung cells...
JULY 23, 2024 by University of Southampton Credit: Brain Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae143New research, led by the University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton, shows that inflammation outside the brain, such as that caused by common infections such as colds and urine infections, is linked to the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). The Systemic Inflammation...
JULY 23, 2024 by NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Transmission electron micrograph of HIV-1 virus particles (teal) budding and replicating from a segment of a chronically infected H9 cell (tan). Particles are in various stages of maturity; arc/semi-circles are immature particles that have started to form but are still part of the cell....
JULY 24, 2024 by Wiley Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA randomized clinical trial published in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology has assessed whether injections of botulinumtoxin-A in calf muscles benefit children with cerebral palsy. “We hypothesized that injections with botulinumtoxin-A in the calf muscles would make walking easier, caused by improved ankle joint functioning following spasticity...
JULY 24, 2024 by deCODE genetics Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA new study by scientists at deCODE Genetics shows that sequence variants drive the correlation between DNA methylation and gene expression. The same variants are linked to various diseases and other human traits. The research is published in the journal Nature Genetics under the title “The...
JULY 24, 2024 by Ingrid Fadelli , Medical Xpress Overview of biotypes that underlie the heterogeneity of clinical depression and associated depression, and which can be assessed using functional magnetic resonance imaging to quantify the activity of brain regions and the functional connectivity between brain regions. Credit: Williams LM. Precision psychiatry: a neural circuit taxonomy...
JULY 24, 2024 by Lori Solomon Greater adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with lower odds of depression in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis, according to a study published online July 5 in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. Liya Ma, from Honghui Hospital at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, and colleagues explored the...
