News Release 1-Aug-2024 Business AnnouncementVanderbilt University Medical Center image: Dario Englot, MD, PhD, associate professor of Neurological Surgery and the director of Functional Neurosurgery at VUMC. Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center The movement disorder neurology and neurosurgery team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is set to add focused ultrasound treatment (FUS) as a new tool...
August 1, 2024 by Yamni Nigam, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public DomainFor years, maggots have been a powerful tool in medicine, quietly excelling in the treatment of chronic wounds. But despite the clinical evidence supporting their efficacy, maggots remain an underused treatment. This isn’t due to a lack of effectiveness but rather our own innate...
August 1, 2024 by Durham University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research led by Dr. Hester Hockin-Boyers (Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences), suggests that combining seemingly opposing approaches to health management could support eating disorder recovery. The research is published in the journal Sociology of Health & Illness. Intuition versus trackingFor people recovering from an...
August 1, 2024 by Osaka Metropolitan University A new assessment tool has been developed to estimate fall risks in older populations. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan UniversityAn aging society has posed a new global problem, the risk of falling. It is estimated that one in three adults over the age of 65 falls each year and the...
August 1, 2024 by Doshisha University Eccentric-only resistance training at long muscle lengths and with a long contraction duration can chronically decrease the passive stiffness of a specific muscle while simultaneously increasing its size and strength. Credit: Raki Kawama / Doshisha UniversityResistance, or weight training, is widely recommended in sports and rehabilitation as an effective...
August 1, 2024 by University of Oxford Prediction of cognitive, psychiatric, and fatigue outcomes at two to three years after COVID-19 by symptom burden at six months. Credit: The Lancet Psychiatry (2024). DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00214-1Many people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 continue to have cognitive and psychiatric problems even two to three years post-infection, according to...
A commercially available blood test did a better job of detecting Alzheimer’s disease than primary care doctors or specialists using traditional tools, according to findings from a large study. Patients being evaluated for cognitive problems were tested with C2N Diagnostics’ PrecivityAD2 blood test, which looks for fragments of amyloid beta and tau proteins known to...
July 31, 2024 by University of Oxford Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainFour internet-based therapies developed by experts at the University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Department of Psychiatry are proving helpful for patients with social anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorders and for children with anxiety disorders. Urgent treatment solutions are needed for children,...
July 30, 2024 by Washington University School of Medicine Determining performance of blood biomarker tests for amyloid pathology.Neurologists diagnose cognitive impairment with a clinical exam of memory and thinking skills. To determine whether Alzheimer’s disease is the cause of the cognitive impairment, evidence of the specific brain changes that characterize Alzheimer’s must be obtained, typically...
July 31, 2024 by Serina DeSalvio, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainLong COVID is on par with heart disease in terms of its severity, but vaccination reduces risks of long COVID by nearly 70%, say researchers at Washington University. In a recent study, researchers found that the risk of contracting long COVID has decreased...
