by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers from the Netherlands, Austria and Germany has found that a well-known mnemonic device used to improve short-term memory also improves longer-term memory. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances the group describes testing memory in both memory athletes and a control...
Kristen Gerencher, MSOT March 2, 2021, 3PM (PT) Key takeaways: Medically tailored meals help people too sick to shop and cook for themselves, and more Medicare and Medicaid programs are covering them. Health insurers Humana and Oscar Health are delivering food for members with food insecurity during the pandemic. Geisinger Food Farmacy offers healthy food...
Alyssa Billingsley, PharmD March 1, 2021, 1:44PM (PT) Key takeaways: The FDA has approved the emergency use authorization (EUA) for Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, making it the third to be authorized in the United States. The vaccine only requires one shot instead of two and has more conventional storage requirements, giving it a logistics...
Posted by Kathleen Hoffman on Feb 19, 2021 Lots of people take dietary supplements. Unfortunately, they are not all that their producers claim. A previous post notified readers of FDA warnings to dietary supplement producers. Today another dietary supplement warning has come out and it is especially pertinent as so many of us are experiencing sadness and...
The Moderna vaccine is one of the vaccines currently available in the United States and other countries to protect against COVID-19, which is the disease the novel coronavirus causes. Clinical trials and real world data suggest that the Moderna vaccine effectively and safely protects adults against the virus and its complications. This article will discuss...
by University of Texas at Arlington Cancer cell during cell division. Credit: National Institutes of Health In a new commentary for the journal Science, an associate vice president for research at The University of Texas at Arlington argues that emerging protein-based immunotherapies could lead to highly effective “off-the-shelf” cancer treatments for more patients. Jon Weidanz, who also is a...
by Dartmouth College fMRI activity during pain is reduced in the areas shown in blue. Many of these are involved in constructing the experience of pain, including the feeling of suffering, and motivating actions to avoid it. Activity is increased in the areas shown in red and yellow. These are broadly involved in the control of...
by Stony Brook University In the laboratory in which Stony Brook researchers study tissue and investigate the loss of function in PLD1 variants, are researchers: Michael Frohman, MD, Ph.D. (rear center); 5th year Pharmacology student Christian Salazar (seated); 5th year Biochemistry and Structural Biology student Forrest Bowling, and Michael Airola, Ph.D. Credit: Stony Brook University A team of researchers co-led by...
by Karolinska Institutet Low levels of TAp73 correlate with an inflammatory signature and increased activity of the NF-κB pathway in breast cancer. (A) A flowchart of TCGA breast cancer data set analysis. (B) A heatmap based on differential gene set analysis comparing TAp73 low versus TAp73 high expressing samples (FC[Log2]>1, FDR > 0.05). (C) A volcano...
by Adrienne Williamson , Medical Xpress A human kidney spheroid with embedded oxygen sensors (orange). Credit: A. Cohen et al., Science Translational Medicine (2021) There are 1.5 million cases of drug-induced kidney toxicity each year in the U.S. Among the usual suspects are cyclosporin and cisplatin, a pair of widely used chemotherapy drugs. Because both...
