One case that failed to detect any lesion. The lesion ground truths are superimposed on the FLAIR slices in blue, highlighting the regions of interest. Credit: Insights into Imaging (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s13244-024-01803-8 Epilepsy is a neurological condition marked by seizures. Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a leading cause of drug-resistant epilepsy. Surgical removal of FCD lesions is...
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Urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio indicates risk in rheumatoid arthritis
For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) is an independent risk factor indicating prognosis, according to a study published online Sept. 18 in Frontiers in Immunology. Zexuan Bin, from The Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University in Taiyuan, China, and colleagues used 2009 to 2018 data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to...
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Ultra-sensitive robotic “finger” can take patient pulses, check for lumps
Peer-Reviewed Publication Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a soft robotic “finger” with a sophisticated sense of touch that can perform routine doctor office examinations, including taking a patient’s pulse and checking for abnormal lumps. This work was published October 9 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science....
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Promising cell therapy offers hope for relapsed or refractory T-cell leukemia
Antileukemia activity of anti-CD7 PEBL-CAR T cells. Credit: Nature Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03228-8 A new cell therapy, targeting CD7 in leukemia cells, gives a potentially effective treatment for patients with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) who have exhausted all standard treatment options. Published in the journal Nature Medicine on 3 September 2024, the study highlights the effectiveness of a new chimeric...
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Bacterial breakthrough:
UiT The Arctic University of Norway Imagine a country with a billion people, where every individual has different interests and different goals. You will never know their interests and goals until you ask them, but asking a billion people is not an easy task. This is the same complex scenario that scientists face when we...
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Colonoscopies among the young are on the rise
Colon cancers are increasing among younger Americans, so much so that experts advised in 2021 that colonoscopy screening begins at the age of 45, not 50 as had been previously recommended. Now, research shows the new guideline may have led to a tripling in the use of the gold-standard screen among folks ages 45 to...
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How to quickly identify sepsis-causing bacteria – melt it down
Stephanie Fraley (left) reviews bacterial DNA melt curve data with her graduate students(Credit: UCSD) When a patient is diagnosed with sepsis, a medical syndrome that kills more people than breast cancer, prostate cancer and HIV combined, it sets off a countdown for doctors to treat the infection and uncover the culprit causing the body’s systems to shut down....
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Blood test may help differentiate Parkinson's from similar diseases
A simple blood test may be as accurate as a spinal fluid test when trying to determine whether symptoms are caused by Parkinson’s disease or another atypical parkinsonism disorder, according to a new study published in the February 8, 2017, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. In early stages...
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First blood biomarker for multiple sclerosis discovered
A blood test for determining the subtype of MS could be as little as two years away following the discovery of a blood biomarker Although there is no known cure for multiple sclerosis (MS), there are treatments that can help prevent new attacks and improve function after an attack. However, there are three subtypes of...
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Scientists identify two brain networks influencing how we make decisions
Scientists at the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford have pinpointed two distinct mechanisms in the human brain that control the balance between speed and accuracy when making decisions. Their discovery, published in eLife, sheds new light on the networks that determine how quickly we choose an option, and how...