AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Bethesda, MD (Oct. 1, 2020) — Today, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) released the first results from the NIH-funded AGA Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) National Registry, the largest real-world study on the safety and effectiveness of FMT. Published in Gastroenterology, the registry reported that FMT led to a cure of Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection in...
Month: <span>October 2020</span>
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COVID-19 antibodies in donated plasma decline within first months after symptom onset
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY Although there is still uncertainty about the clinical benefits and role of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19, new research suggests that the earlier plasma is collected after the donor’s recovery from COVID-19, the better, as antibodies start to disappear after three months of symptom onset. The results, which authors say may also have...
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FDA Clears Masimo’s Go Anywhere Pulse Oximeter and Respiration Rate Monitor
Masimo won FDA clearance for its Rad-G pulse oximeter, a rugged device developed with the help of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Originally created to spot-check patients for SpO2 (oxygen saturation), respiration rate from the plethysmograph (RRp), pulse rate (PR), perfusion index (Pi), and pleth variability index (PVi®), this latest generation of the Rad-G...
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Skin Cancer in People of Color: Statistics, Pictures, and Prevention
Maryann Mikhail, MD. Dr. Mikhail is a board-certified physician in the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. As a North African American, I grew up thinking that my dark skin made me invincible to skin cancer. It wasn’t until my first week of...
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New tool shows main highways of disease development
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN THE FACULTY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES As people get older they often jump from disease to disease and carry the burden of more chronic diseases at once. But is there a system in the way diseases follow each other? Danish researchers have for the past six years developed a comprehensive tool,...
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Pain relief caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection may help explain COVID-19 spread
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA HEALTH SCIENCES SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can relieve pain, according to a new study by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers. The finding may explain why nearly half of people who get COVID-19 experience few or no symptoms, even though they are able to spread the disease, according to the...
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What are Endosomes?
By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. Endosomes are membrane-bound cytosolic vesicles with three major compartments namely early, late, and recycling endosomal compartments. Endosomes are the integral parts of the endocytic process, and thereby, play crucial roles in various physiological processes, such as nutrient uptake, sorting and delivery of macromolecules, and regulation of cell surface receptors and...
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New COVID test doesn’t use scarce reagents, catches all but the least infectious
by University of Vermont Jason Botten and Emily Bruce, who pioneered a streamlined COVID-19 test that doesn’t use scarce chemicals, in their research lab in the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine. The machine between them is used to measure the presence and quantity of viral RNA in patient samples. A major roadblock to large...
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New potential treatment approach for patients with salt sensitive hypertension
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston)–High blood pressure (hypertension) affects one in two U.S. adults and can cause hardening and thickening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), which can lead to heart attacks, strokes or other complications including chronic kidney disease. Dietary salt intake can evoke salt-sensitive hypertension, which exists in approximately half of hypertensive patients. A...
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Team develops wearable sensor to help people with inflammatory bowel disease
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS IMAGE: UT DALLAS RESEARCHERS DESIGNED A PROTOTYPE OF A WRISTWATCH-LIKE DEVICE THAT DETECTS TWO KEY BIOMARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. University of Texas at Dallas researchers have designed a wearable device that monitors sweat for biomarkers that could signal flare-ups of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A team of bioengineers demonstrated the...