JULY 21, 2024 by Ziyad Al-Aly, The Conversation Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from PexelsSince 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies billions of dollars in reduced productivity of employees and an overall drop in...
Perspective > Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH DISCLOSURES March 20, 2024 Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has revolutionized diabetes care, especially for patients with type 1 diabetes. CGM is also increasingly being used for patients with type 2 diabetes as well as managing diabetes during pregnancy. As the adoption of this technology grows,...
August 1, 2024 by Dennis Thompson The wildfires that are increasing with climate change could harm the future brain health of humanity, a new study suggests. Wildfire smoke appears to increase people’s risk of a dementia diagnosis even more than other types of air pollution, researchers reported at the Alzheimer’s Association annual meeting in Philadelphia....
August 1, 2024 by UT Southwestern Medical Center Summary of our findings on Trp dependency and vulnerability in MYC-driven tumors. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47868-3Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that a diet free of the amino acid tryptophan can effectively halt the growth of liver cancer in mice. Their findings, published...
August 1, 2024 by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: Sanket Mishra from PexelsA team of medical researchers at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry has found that despite being trained on terabytes of data, the LLM ChatGPT is still not good at diagnosing human ailments. In their study, published on the open-access...
August 1, 2024 by Eindhoven University of Technology Schematic overview of the study. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-024-01727-wWithin an international collaboration of 30 scientists, TU/e professors Jan van Hest and Willem Mulder are working on nanotechnological research to accurately stimulate the immune system. The TU/e team is focusing on the behavior of polymersomes that...
August 1, 2024 by Barbara Pinho, Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainResearchers are looking to nature for inspiration on how to treat acute respiratory distress syndrome, a life-threatening condition affecting thousands every year. In 2014, Professor Kai Zacharowski, Director of the Clinic for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy...
Medscape Medical News Ute Eppinger July 26, 2024 On World Brain Day (July 22, 2024), the German Society of Neurology (DGN) and the German Brain Foundation pointed out that too much sugar can harm the brain. The current results of the Global Burden of Diseases study shows that stroke and dementia are among the top...
Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. The emergence of infectious diseases, including viral zoonoses, has allowed intensive research into novel therapeutic approaches. Stem cell therapy, mostly using mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), has garnered significant attention due to the immunomodulatory properties and tissue repair capabilities. MSCs have demonstrated promise in treating severe COVID-19...
Medscape Medical News > Conference News > AAIC 2024 Pauline Anderson August 01, 2024 Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day is linked to more rapid cognitive decline over time, results from a large study suggest. Investigators examined the impact of different amounts of coffee and tea on fluid intelligence — a measure...
