Doug Brunk May 22, 2024 Supporters of home phototherapy for patients with plaque and guttate psoriasis had plenty to cheer about at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) in March. There, Joel M. Gelfand, MD, professor of dermatology and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, presented results from the...
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Can phototherapy improve cognitive function in patients with dementia?
by Wiley Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In an analysis of published clinical trials, investigators found that phototherapy—or exposure to sessions of bright light—may be a promising non-pharmacological intervention for lessening symptoms of dementia. The analysis in Brain and Behavior included 12 randomized clinical trials. Results indicated that phototherapy improved cognitive function in patients with dementia, but it did...
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Chemotherapy with light; only one injection required
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: A SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF THE APPLICATION OF CANCER-TARGETED SUPERMOLECULAR PEPTIDE PHOTOTHERAPY DRUGS TO ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS DEVELOPED BY KIST RESEARCHERS. A SINGLE SUPERMOLECULAR PEPTIDE PHOTOTHERAPY INJECTION AND REPEATED PHOTOTHERAPY WERE USED TO COMPLETELY TREAT CANCER. CREDIT: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY(KIST) Researchers in South Korea have developed a phototherapy technology...
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World’s smallest wearable device warns of UV exposure, enables precision phototherapy
The world’s smallest wearable, battery-free device has been developed by Northwestern Medicine and Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering scientists to measure exposure to light across multiple wavelengths, from the ultra violet (UV), to visible and even infrared parts of the solar spectrum. It can record up to three separate wavelengths of light at one time....