Cate Collings, MD April 04, 2022 Cate Collings, MD More Americans are beginning to recognize that the food they eat can have a profound effect on their health, longevity, and well-being. While hardly new, the food-as-medicine concept — in which clinicians prescribe diet changes as part of formal treatment plans — has risen in the...
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Leveraging outer space to advance stem cell science and medicine
by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Credit: CC0 Public Domain The secret to producing large batches of stem cells more efficiently may lie in the near-zero gravity conditions of space. Scientists at Cedars-Sinai have found that microgravity has the potential to contribute to life-saving advances on Earth by facilitating the rapid mass production of stem cells. A...
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Easy-to-take medicine better at suppressing HIV in children
by University College London Dispersible medicine for young children. Credit: Picturing Health, picturinghealth.org A once-a-day antiretroviral medicine that is low-cost and easy for children to take is also more effective at suppressing HIV than standard treatments, according to a global trial led by researchers at UCL. The study, published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, found...
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Mucus and mucins may become the medicine of the future
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN – THE FACULTY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES Many people instinctively associate mucus with something disgusting, but in fact, it has incredibly many valuable functions for our health. It keeps track of our important intestinal flora and feeds the bacteria. It covers all internal surfaces of our body, and, as a barrier...
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Machine learning is booming in medicine. It’s also facing a credibility crisis
By Casey Ross June 2, 2021 Reprints MIKE REDDY FOR STAT The mad dash accelerated as quickly as the pandemic. Researchers sprinted to see whether artificial intelligence could unravel Covid-19’s many secrets — and for good reason. There was a shortage of tests and treatments for a skyrocketing number of patients. Maybe AI could detect the...
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Which OCD Treatment Works Best? New Brain Study Could Lead to More Personalized Choices
New research could improve the odds that people with the obsessive-compulsive disorder will receive a therapy that really works for them – something that eludes more than a third of those who currently get OCD treatment. The study, performed at the University of Michigan, suggests the possibility of predicting which of two types of therapy...
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Toxicity of dorsal root ganglia is widely associated with CNS AAV gene therapy
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC./GENETIC ENGINEERING NEWS JOURNAL IN THE FIELD AND PROVIDES ALL-INCLUSIVE ACCESS TO THE CRITICAL PILLARS OF HUMAN GENE THERAPY: RESEARCH, METHODS, AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS New Rochelle, NY, September 2, 2020—A meta-analysis of non-human primate (NHP) studies showed that adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy often caused dorsal root ganglion (DRG) pathology. There were...
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Vitamin D twice a day may keep vertigo away
by American Academy of Neurology Taking vitamin D and calcium twice a day may reduce your chances of getting vertigo again, according to a study published in the August 5, 2020, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. “Our study suggests that for people with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo,...
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Novel diabetes drug candidate shows promising properties in human islets and mouse models
The drug candidate is a non-toxic small molecule that given orally effectively rescued mice from models of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM ANATH SHALEV FROM UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM view more CREDIT: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Southern Research have discovered a...
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Scientists ID gene responsible for deadly glioblastoma
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM THE DISCOVERY OF THE ONCOGENE RESPONSIBLE FOR GLIOBLASTOMA COULD BE THE BRAIN TUMOR’S ACHILLES’ HEEL, SAYS HUI LI, PHD, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND THE UVA… view more CREDIT: UVA HEALTH Scientists have identified an oncogene (a cancer-causing gene) responsible for glioblastoma, the deadliest brain tumor....