by Stacy Pigott, University of Arizona Credit: CC0 Public Domain Substance use disorders are notoriously difficult to treat, as it is challenging to intervene in a drugs’ effect on the brain’s reward pathway without interfering with the pathway’s normal function. In a University of Arizona Health Sciences study, researchers identified a drug that reduced the desire...
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FDA approves Bimzelx for hidradenitis suppurativa
by Lori Solomon The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved UCB’s Bimzelx (bimekizumab-bkzx) for the treatment of adults with moderate-to-severe hidradenitis suppurativa. Bimzelx becomes the first and only approved medicine designed to selectively inhibit interleukin 17F in addition to interleukin 17A and is the fifth indication for Bimzelx in the United States. The approval is supported...
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Study shows concussions slow brain activity of high school football players
by Radiological Society of North America Magnetoencephalography (MEG) equipment. Pre- and post-season resting-state MEG data was collected from 91 high school football players, of whom 10 were diagnosed with a concussion. MEG is a neuroimaging technique that measures the magnetic fields that the brain’s electrical currents produce. Credit: Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) A new...
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Experiments show nerve cells of blind mice retain their visual function
by Vienna University of Technology Printed micro-electrode arrays and patch-clamp setup used to record neuronal activity from ex-vivo mouse retina. Credit: Vienna University of Technology The retina is often referred to as an “outpost of the brain”—after all, important steps in visual signal processing do not take place in the cerebrum, but in the nerve cells...
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Long COVID brain fog linked to lung function
by Radiological Society of North America Individuals in the study are plotted with x-axis being rank of pulmonary gas exchange. The black dots show the pulmonary gas exchange ratio, which in this case is the red blood cell to tissue plasma ratio (RBC:mem), on the left y-axis and the blue dots are the cognition scores on...
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New rule allows HIV-positive organ transplants
by Carla K. Johnson Surgical instruments and supplies lay on a table during a kidney transplant surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington D.C., Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Credit: AP Photo/Molly Riley, File People with HIV who need a kidney or liver transplant will be able to receive an organ from a donor with...
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Exclusive-US FDA Finds Widely Used Asthma Drug Impacts the Brain
Dan Levine And Sheila Dang November 22, 2024 Added to Email Alert 338 (Reuters) – U.S. government researchers have found that a widely prescribed asthma drug originally sold by Merck & Co may be linked to serious mental health problems for some patients, according to a scientific presentation reviewed by Reuters. The researchers found that...
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Amazing Technologies Changing The Future Of Dermatology
From skin checking applications and AI to remote care devices and robotics, the field is going through a paradigm shift making patients more and more the point of care. Dr. Bertalan Mesko, PhD 11 min | 18 November 2024 Key Takeaways From skin checking applications and AI to remote care devices and robotics, the field is...
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AI Robot Ultrasound Scanning System Found to Be as Good as Rheumatologists at Assessing RA
Miriam E. Tucker November 25, 2024 WASHINGTON — A fully automated ultrasound scanning system combined with artificial intelligence–based disease activity scoring performed as well as expert rheumatologists in hand joint assessment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), new research found. The system, made by a Danish company called ROPCA, comprises an ultrasound scanner called ARTHUR (RA Ultrasound Robot)...
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Researchers uncover potential new biomarker for psychosis diagnosis
by University of Rochester Medical Center The four sensory networks of the brain network partition. The partition comprises four sensory networks, with the somatomotor network encompassing the somatosensory cortex. The thalamus contains parcels of each sensory network. Credit: Molecular Psychiatry (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02767-3 The current standard of care for psychosis is a diagnostic interview, but what if it...