August 6, 2024 by Marta Wegorzewska, Washington University School of Medicine Immunobiologists Robert Schreiber, Ph.D., (left) and Hussein Sultan, Ph.D., of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, found that a subset of immune cells that normally puts the brakes on the immune system to prevent it from attacking the body’s healthy cells inadvertently...
August 7, 2024 by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Glioma of the left parietal lobe. CT scan with contrast enhancement. Credit: Mikhail Kalinin/CC BY-SA 3.0Vorasidenib has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for patients with Grade 2 gliomas with IDH1 or IDH2 mutations. Based on evidence from the INDIGO clinical trial, a global...
Perspective > Medscape > Impact Factor with F. Perry WilsonCOMMENTARY F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE Disclosures November 20, 2023 This transcript has been edited for clarity. Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. Robert Louis Stevenson famously...
August 6, 2024 by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Working with human stem cells that form a kind of “mini intestine-in-a-dish,” Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found several molecular mechanisms for COVID-19-related diarrhea, suggesting potential ways to control it. Details of the experiments in a model of human intestinal tissue, called enteroids,...
A study of hospital emergency departments suggests that women have more limited access to painkillers and medical care. By Lilly Tozer Women are less likely than men to be given painkillers.Credit: Natalia Gdovskaia/Getty Physicians treat men and women differently when it comes to pain — women in hospital wait longer to be seen and are...
from STAT:First Opinion By Mike ZuendelAug. 5, 2024 Reprints As I roamed the meeting rooms and halls of the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Philadelphia last week, I kept hearing a word — dementia — I’ve come to loathe as someone with early Alzheimer’s. The use of this term goes back as far as the...
August 5, 2024 by Elana Gotkine For patients with Meniere disease (MD), vestibular neurectomy is effective, resolving vertigo episodes and resulting in hydrops regression, according to a study published online July 30 in Acta Neurologica Belgica. Agnieszka Jasińska-Nowacka, M.D., Ph.D., from the Medical University of Warsaw in Poland, and colleagues assessed endolymphatic hydrops in patients...
August 5, 2024 by Medical University of Vienna Cumulative survival of male (left) and female (right) patients stratified according to the NYHA classification. Credit: Cardiovascular Diabetology (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s12933-024-02360-6A MedUni Vienna study has investigated gender-specific differences in the diagnosis of systolic heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes. The results, recently published in the...
August 5, 2024 by Julie Grisham, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Credit: CC0 Public DomainThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval for the immunotherapy afamitresgene autoleuecel (Tecelra, also known as afami-cel) for the treatment of adults with a rare soft tissue cancer called synovial sarcoma. Afami-cel is the first engineered T...
August 5, 2024 by Monash University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A large study of older Australians has found more would exercise—and exercise better—if classes were subsidized. The Monash University research studied exercise classes all over the country, which had been commissioned and run by the national exercise industry group, Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA)....
