by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Immunohistochemistry for alpha-synuclein showing positive staining (brown) of an intraneural Lewy-body in the Substantia nigra in Parkinson’s disease. Credit: Wikipedia Art appreciation is considered essential to human experience. While taste in art varies depending on the individual, cognitive neuroscience can provide clues about how viewing art...
Credit…Gracia Lam By Jane E. Brody April 5, 2021 At a time when so many are dying against their will, it may seem out of sync to discuss the option of having a doctor help people end their lives when they face intolerable suffering that no treatment can relieve. It’s less a question of uncontrollable physical pain,...
by FAPESP The scientists detected incapacities related to gait timing and foot placement. Their discoveries serve as a basis for the development of an exercise protocol that mitigates the difficulty. Credit: Movi-Lab A multidisciplinary research group affiliated with the Department of Physical Education’s Human Movement Laboratory (Movi-Lab) at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Bauru, Brazil, measured step...
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH IMAGE: HUMAN THYROID ORGANOID DISPLAYING FUNCTIONALITY THROUGH THYROGLOBULIN (GREEN) PRODUCTION AND PROLIFERATIVE CAPACITY BY KI67 (RED). CREDIT: VIVIAN ML OGUNDIPE Hormones produced by the thyroid gland are essential regulators of organ function. The absence of these hormones either through thyroid dysfunction due to, for example, irradiation, thyroid cancer or autoimmune...
by IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) Credit: CC0 Public Domain People living with a patient undergoing an intensive weight loss treatment also benefit from this therapy. This has been demonstrated by a team of researchers from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) along with doctors from Hospital del Mar and the...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Medical experts have worked for decades to improve the chances that patients will get the scans, routine tests and medicines that can do them the most good – and avoid the ones that won’t help them at all. But in the push toward evidence-based medicine, a new study says,...
Vickie Moored can walk again. Her words don’t slur, her vision isn’t blurred, and she no longer collapses every day. The 65-year-old from Elkton, Va., says she has her life back, thanks to the stunning efficacy of a cheap, but unapproved, chemical called 3,4-DAP. It’s a medication she would not have but for the largesse...
In a study of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), persistent substance use—especially of hard illicit drugs—was linked with higher risks of CKD progression and early death. The findings appear in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). CKD is common in the United States, and affected patients are at higher risk for poor...
