by Jess Berthold, University of California, San Francisco Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainPeople with depression have higher body temperatures, suggesting there could be a mental health benefit to lowering the temperatures of those with the disorder, a new UC San Francisco-led study found. The study, published today in Scientific Reports, doesn’t indicate whether depression raises body temperature...
Peer-Reviewed Publication THE KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAIST) FIGURE 1. DISPOSABLE VARIABLE STIFFNESS INTRAVENOUS NEEDLE. (A) CONCEPTUAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE KEY FEATURES OF THE P-CARE NEEDLE WHOSE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES CAN BE CHANGED BY BODY TEMPERATURE, (B) PHOTOGRAPH OF COMMONLY USED IV ACCESS DEVICES AND THE P-CARE NEEDLE, (C) PERFORMANCE OF COMMON IV...
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, YONG LOO LIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Medications to treat various chronic diseases may hinder the body’s ability to lose heat and regulate its core temperature to optimal levels. The loss of effective thermoregulation has implications for elderly people receiving treatment for illnesses like cancer, cardiovascular, Parkinson’s disease/dementia and diabetes, particularly during...
by Garvan Institute of Medical Research Professor Mike Rogers. Credit: Garvan Institute of Medical Research A new study from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research shows how rises in core body temperature may trigger the inflammatory flares in people with a rare genetic autoinflammatory disease. The recessive disorder, called mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD), is caused...
14 APR 2022 2:00 PM BY ELIZABETH PENNISI Gut bacteria can influence the brain’s temperature controls and stimulate nest-building in mice. KLEIN AND HUBERT/MINDEN PICTURES With more microbes than cells in our body, it’s not surprising that bacteria and other invisible “guests” influence our metabolism, immune system, and even our behavior. Now, researchers studying mice...
Barcelona, 20 May 2020. A new study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation, has analysed deaths linked to respiratory disease in Spain between 1980 and 2016. The study, which analysed data on more than 1.3 million deaths, found that the seasonality of temperature-attributable mortality from...
A spin-off from the LIR-Infrared Lab (Laboratorio de Sensores, Teledetección e Imagen en el Infrarrojo) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), SENSIA Solutions, has adapted its thermographic camera technology, called HIGIA, in order to manufacture a new high precision system for measuring body temperature that can be used to detect fever in individuals accessing...
by Ruhr-Universität Bochum Many bacterial pathogens excrete toxins as soon as they have entered the host in order to suppress its immune response. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have analyzed what happens on the molecular level when the diarrhea pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis switches into attack mode. To this end, they examined so-called RNA thermometers, which...
YOU WAKE UP at 6 am feeling achy and chilled. Unsure if you’re sick or just sleep-deprived, you reach for a thermometer. It beeps at 99°F, so you groan and roll out of bed and get ready for work. Because that’s not a fever. Is it? Yes, it is. Forget everything you know about normal...
IMAGE: THE TINY IMAGING AND SENSING PROBE IS AS THIN AS A SINGLE STRAND OF HUMAN HAIR. University of Adelaide researchers have invented a world-first tiny fiber-optic probe that can simultaneously measure temperature and see deep inside the body. The probe may help researchers find better treatments to prevent drug-induced overheating of the brain, and potentially...
