For patients with primary biliary cholangitis, more receiving the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARδ) agonist seladelpar have a biochemical response and alkaline phosphatase normalization, according to a study published online Feb. 21 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Gideon M. Hirschfield, Ph.D., from the University Health Network in Toronto, and colleagues conducted a phase...
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4 in 10 Patients Recall Hidden Consciousness After Near-Death Experiences, Study Finds
While in extended CPR during cardiac arrest, patients showed no outward signs of consciousness—but scientists did record brain activity in those individuals. BY CAROLINE DELBERTlightning hitting a brain from the top against a dark cloudlike background Getty ImagesA landmark study reports the brain activity of patients in extended CPR during cardiac arrest.Patients showed no outward...
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Immunocompromised population shown to react well to COVID-19 vaccine
by Hackensack Meridian Health Antibody responses based on diagnostic cohorts. Credit: Microbiology Spectrum (2024). DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02050-23First-year Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (HMSOM) student Elizabeth Titova leveraged her background in phlebotomy and scientific research to publish a new clinical study around COVID-19 vaccination in Microbiology Spectrum. In her study, Titova found that while naturally stronger in...
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Need Your Patients to Move More? Show Them This
Ten thousand steps a day. It’s the magic number that’s said to optimize health and longevity. But did you know the 10,000-step goal is rooted more in marketing than in science? It started in 1965 in Tokyo, Japan, where a company released an early step counter, calling it manpo-kei — or “10,000 steps meter.” The...
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Pickleball Rx: Serving Up Advice for Patients and Players
Bruce Berry, MD Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the United States, with more than 36 million players and counting in this country last year. But the game has been linked to an estimated $700 million in medical expenses annually thanks to injuries on the court, many of which could be prevented with pregame...
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Malnutrition often seen in patients treated for inflammatory bowel disease
by Lori Solomon Some patients seen in an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) clinic screen positive for malnutrition, according to a research letter published online Nov. 20 in Gastro Hep Advances. Aaron C. Viser, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues used data from a multidisciplinary IBD clinic (June 7 to July...
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Use of metaphors enables patients and caregivers to communicate experiences of living with long-term conditions
by King’s College London Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainIt is estimated that 15 million people in England—a quarter of the population—live with a long-term condition and 14.2 million people (one in four adults) are face the presence of more than two long-term conditions. These can broadly be defined as illnesses that cannot be cured and which may require...
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Mental illness in patients with chronic kidney disease
by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainChronic kidney disease (CKD) affects more than 10% of adults worldwide. Mental health is an important yet under-recognized issue in patients with CKD. Depression is common and related to poor prognosis in CKD patients, but previous research has primarily focused on dialysis patients, leading to an insufficient understanding of depression...
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Improved cellular recycling could benefit patients with neurodegenerative conditions
Peer-Reviewed Publication THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN NON-FUNCTIONING PARTS OF THE CELL LIKE DAMAGED PEROXISOMES (PICTURED IN YELLOW) ARE NOT RECYCLED PROPERLY. ON THE RIGHT IS AN IMAGE FROM THE KIM-BANDSMA LAB SHOWING CELLS WITH DISRUPTED RECYCLING, AND ON THE LEFT IS A CELL WITH FUNCTIONING RECYCLING. CREDIT: THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN (SICKKIDS). For...
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Researchers find that regret is rarer than believed among patients who undergo gender affirming surgery
by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainIn a Viewpoint article published in JAMA Surgery, three Johns Hopkins researchers urge the medical community to dismiss a widely held, but scientifically unsupported belief that many people who are transgender and gender diverse (TGD), and undergo gender affirming surgery (GAS), later regret their decision to...