by St. George’s University of London New guidance published in the BMJ today during Mental Health Awareness Week has outlined guidance for primary care workers on the best-evidenced methods to mitigate the psychological effects of social distancing. Recommended interventions include remote consultations and social prescribing, such as online exercise and dance classes. The new guidance,...
On Thursday, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that more than two dozen antibody tests sold to Americans have not been proven to work A Mayo Clinic experiment found that half of the ninee antibody tests it analyzed were unreliable Antibody tests detect immune proteins developed in response to an infection and may provide...
by European Academy of Neurology Those who are socially isolated are over 40% more likely to have a cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack or stroke, than those who were socially integrated, new research has shown. The German study, due to presented tomorrow at the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Virtual Congress, found that...
Much of the greatest innovation in industries other than health care deploys technology-enabled approaches to making services more accessible and convenient and lower cost or higher quality. For example, companies such as Blockbuster Video, which provided what seemed like essential services, was supplanted by Netflix, which offered on-demand, personalized viewing of videos from the convenience...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress A team of researchers with members affiliated with a large number of institutions in Korea, two in the U.S. and one in the U.K. has released data from the initial phase of the Korean Genome Project (Korea1K). In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group notes...
by University of Barcelona An interdisciplinary research study of the University of Barcelona identified two potential candidates to treat Alzheimer’s disease. These are two marine molecules, meridianine and lignarenone B, able to alter the activity of GSK3B activity, a protein associated with several neurodegenerative diseases. The researchers used several biocomputational techniques to detect these so...
by University of Bristol Users of high-potency cannabis are four times more likely to report associated problems, and twice as likely to report anxiety disorder, than users of lower-potency strains, according to new research from the University of Bristol. Published today on JAMA Psychiatry the research uses data from Children of the 90s, a long-term...
by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center A microscopic photo of a blood smear from a transgenic mouse that mimics the human immune disorder, secondary HLH (hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis). The image shows macrophage immune cells (indicated by arrow) flooding healthy tissue cells during a cytokine storm caused by HLH in a very similar fashion t what occurs...
by Duke University Duke University researchers have developed a synthetic molecule that selectively dampen the physiological rewards of cocaine in mice. It also may represent a new class of drugs that could be more specific with fewer side effects than current medications. In mice that were treated with the stimulant cocaine or methamphetamine, the new...
by Kate Wighton, Imperial College London Scientists have created the world’s largest publicly available database of genetic variants—changes in DNA that can sometimes lead to disease. The use of this resource, called the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) and including information from over 140,000 people from across the globe, is described in a landmark collection of...
