by Terri Malloy, Mayo Clinic Credit: CC0 Public Domain Too often, the first sign of cardiovascular disease may be a major event like a heart attack, stroke or cardiac arrest. Now, researchers and clinicians at Mayo Clinic are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to flag heart problems earlier, boosting the abilities of a diagnostic test that...
by Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging A) PET images of [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-ZCAM241 uptake at baseline and 3, 7, and 12 days after injection as inflammatory arthritis developed in single representative individual mouse. Images are normalized to SUV of 0.5 for direct comparison between time points. (B) CD69 immunofluorescence Sytox (Thermo Fisher Scientific) staining of...
Christina Szalinski Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the world, largely because so many patients are diagnosed late. Screening more patients could help, yet screening rates remain critically low. In the United States, only about 6% of eligible people get screened , according to the American Lung Association. Contrast that with screening rates for...
In this interview, Dr. MeiLan Han, a distinguished pulmonologist and Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Michigan, shares her profound insights into Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).With your extensive background and contributions in Pulmonary and Critical Care, can you share what initially drew you to the study of...
by University of Oxford New study offers hope in early detection of oesophageal cancer. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences have developed a new tool to predict people’s risks of getting esophageal cancer in the next ten years. Researchers in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University...
REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE INDIANAPOLIS – Mild cognitive impairment, which occurs in about one in six individuals in the U.S., age 65 and older, remains substantially underdiagnosed, especially in disadvantaged populations. Convened by the non-profit UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, The Brief Cognitive Assessment Work Group, is composed of 15 clinicians, researchers and health systems administrators from across the U.S. The group advocates for...
by University of Birmingham Change in area under the curve (AUC) for all combinations of validated analytes for differentiating between health or gingivitis and periodontitis (HG vs. P), health and gingivitis (H vs. G), and mild and advanced periodontitis (MP vs. AP). Data are represented as truncated violin plots; solid lines represent median and dashed...
CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CARLOS III (F.S.P.) IMAGE: ENRIQUE CALVO, JESÚS VÁZQUEZ, ÁLVARO ALFAYATE, ESTEFANÍA NÚÑEZ, AND JOSÉ LUIS MARTÍN VENTURA. CREDIT: CNIC A study published in the journal eBiomedicine identifies new biomarkers that predict the presence of subclinical atherosclerosis. The study was carried out by scientists from the Spanish cardiovascular research network (CIBERCV) working at...
UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG IMAGE: MAX LEVIN OCH SARA BJURSTEN, SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG. CREDIT: PHOTO BY ANNA REHNBERG. Immunotherapy is very effective for many cancers, but the treatment can also cause autoimmune side effects. Encephalitis is one of the most serious and difficult-to-diagnose side effects of immunotherapy. Now care staff can use a simple...
A study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School found a way to detect the presence of ovarian cancer in patients using Pap test samples, normally used to detect cervical cancer. Currently, no early warning system exists for ovarian cancer, which in 2021, is estimated to kill more than 13,700 women, according to the American...
