ORI, FAU study first to show statistically significant links between regular use of pain and/or sleep prescriptions and frailty risk in older adults OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE Researchers from the Oregon Research Institute (ORI) and Florida Atlantic University (FAU) are the first to demonstrate statistically significant links between self-reported regular use of prescription drugs for pain...
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Diabetes cases soar, 1-in-11 adults affected: doctors
More than 460 million people—1-in-11 adults—now suffer from diabetes, largely brought on by an over-rich lifestyle short on exercise, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) said Thursday. Releasing its latest Diabetes Atlas, the IDF said the current number of 463 million sufferers would jump to 578 million by 2030 and to 700 million by 2045, posing...
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Lithium can reverse radiation damage after brain tumor treatment
by Karolinska Institutet Children who have received radiotherapy for a brain tumor can develop cognitive problems later in life. In their studies on mice, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now shown that the drug lithium can help to reverse the damage caused long after it has occurred. The study is published in the journal Molecular...
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Treatment with anti-cancer drug T-DM1 after pertuzumab is ‘good option’
by European School of Oncology Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, whose disease has progressed after being treated initially with pertuzumab in combination with trastuzumab and a taxane, can respond well to treatment with T-DM1—a drug that combines trastuzumab with an anti-cancer drug called DM1. Dr. Benedetta Conte, a medical oncology resident from the University of...
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Butterfly Network Expands Applications for Smartphone-Connected Ultrasound: Interview
MEDGADGET EDITORS ANESTHESIOLOGY, CARDIOLOGY, CRITICAL CARE, EMERGENCY MEDICINE, EXCLUSIVE, MEDICINE, NEWS, OB/GYN, PEDIATRICS, RADIOLOGY, SURGERY, UROLOGY, VASCULAR SURGERY Butterfly Network, the digital health unicorn democratizing medical imaging, is continuing to add new applications for its handheld, single probe, smartphone-connected ultrasound technology. The Butterfly iQ, the multi-purpose pocket-sized ultrasound, won FDA clearance a couple years ago and earlier this year received the CE Mark, clearing it for distribution...
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Eliminating Common Bacterial Infection Significantly Decreases Gastric Cancer Risk
While it is well known within the medical community that there is a link between the bacteria Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) and rates of gastric cancer—commonly referred to as stomach cancer—the rates and risk among Americans has been largely understudied. Now, after analyzing records of close to 400,000 patients, researchers in the Perelman School of...
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Late stage breast cancer survival estimate is ‘rarely accurate’
Specialists warn that single number average survival estimates for advanced stage breast cancer are unhelpful and usually inaccurate. Instead, they advise doctors to provide several case-specific survival estimates to help people plan with realism and hope. Breast cancer is the form of cancer that affects women the most often — about 2.1 million Trusted Source...
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A drug maker courted controversy when it shut out a family-run rival. Now some patients say the medicine isn’t working
By ED SILVERMAN @Pharmalot NOVEMBER 15, 2019 Last February, Barbara Moore switched to a new medicine to combat a rare neuromuscular disease that had plagued her for nearly a quarter of a century. She had not planned to do so, but Moore had no choice: An effective treatment she had been taking all those years...
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Too few medicare beneficiaries with diabetes getting eye exams
(HealthDay)—Nationwide, about half of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with diabetes had eye exams in 2017, according to research published in the Nov. 15 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Noting that annual dilated eye exams are recommended for persons with diabetes, Elizabeth A. Lundeen, Ph.D., from the...
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Scientists shed new light on neural processes behind learning and motor behaviours
by eLife Researchers have provided new insight into the neural processes behind movement and learning behaviours, according to a study published today in eLife. The findings in rats reveal how the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for processing information, affects the basal ganglia, which controls motor behaviours and reinforcement learning. This could pave the way...