by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Penn Medicine researchers have found that middle-aged individuals—those born in the late 1960s and the 1970s—may be in a perpetual state of H3N2 influenza virus susceptibility because their antibodies bind to H3N2 viruses but fail to prevent infections, according to a new...
by Deborah Kotz, University of Maryland School of Medicine A surface view of the organ of hearing (cochlea) from a mouse, using confocal microscopy. The sensory cells are named hair cells because of their apical projections (stereocilia) which move from stimulation by sound. Credit: University of Maryland School of Medicine Researchers at the University of Maryland...
by Yale University Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Yale have identified a possible treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disease for which there is currently no cure or treatment, by targeting an enzyme that had been considered ‘undruggable.’ The finding appears in the Aug. 25 edition of Science Signaling. DMD is the most...
INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IMAGE: SUTHAT LIANGPUNSAKUL, MD INDIANAPOLIS–Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are learning more about how a person’s genes play a role in the possibility they’ll suffer from alcoholic cirrhosis with the discovery of a gene that could make the disease less likely. Alcoholic cirrhosis can happen after years of...
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CHICAGO — Severely ill COVID-19 patients on ventilators are placed in a prone (face down) position because it’s easier for them to breathe and reduces mortality. But that life-saving position can also cause permanent nerve damage in these vulnerable patients, reports a newly accepted study from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University Feinberg...
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CHICAGO — The locus of male sexual desire has been uncovered in specific regions of brain tissue where a key gene named aromatase is present, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study in mice. The gene regulates sexual behavior in men, and thus can be targeted by drugs to either increase its function for...
If you suffer from joint pain, a new study out of Stanford could hold the possibility of relief, and a time in the future when doctors tune up our joints almost the way we service our cars. “Maybe this is a little bit more like Jiffy Lube, an oil change”, says Stanford researcher Dr. Michael Longaker, M.D. Dr. Longaker and his team at Stanford believe...
The number of cases of dementia in the U.S. is rising as baby boomers age, raising questions for boomers themselves and also for their families, caregivers and society. Dementia, which is not technically a disease, but a term for impaired ability to think, remember or make decisions, is one of the most feared impairments of...
You only have one body and it is not going to stay the same. Time takes a toll on all of us and there is no such thing as a perfect body. It is important to have a positive body image, because that’s what you’re stuck with. Now scientists from the University of Waterloo found...
By Urian B. Tech Times A new consumer watchdog investigation finds out that baby sleeping bags that are sold online marketplaces as well as the popular High Street stores have been discovered to actually fail certain safety tests that could be fatal to a child. Research by Which? warns Britain parents about the potential danger showing that...
