by Amy Norton Healthday Reporter An experimental antibody therapy may help ease skin symptoms from the autoimmune disease lupus, a small preliminary trial suggests. Researchers found that a higher-dose version of the drug spurred a “clinically meaningful” symptom improvement for 87% of patients after one month. But they also stressed that the findings are based on...
Sarah Pozniak, MD May 25, 2021, 10:31 AM (PT) Key takeaways: Pfizer is studying a new treatment for people with mild to moderate COVID-19. This treatment will come in a pill and can be taken at home. Studies are underway, and the treatment may be available later this year. It’s been over a year since...
by Barcelona Institute for Global Health Tylenol 500 mg capsules. Credit: Wikipedia An epidemiological study of more than 70,000 children in six European cohorts has linked symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum conditions (ASC) to the mothers’ use of paracetamol (acetaminophen) during pregnancy. The study, published in the European Journal of Epidemiology, was led by...
Thomas Smith Image: Kyoto University/CC-BY 4.0 International license Ihave a photographic memory, and I’m a time-space synesthete. That means I can visualize, in photorealistic detail, basically any place I’ve ever been. I can also imagine nonexistent places and fly around them in my brain like I’m in a video game. It’s a cool thing to be...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, May 27, 2021 — Adults who have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were more than three times as likely to have an ischemic stroke later in life compared to adults who do not have OCD, according to new research published today in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of...
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER BOSTON – Although everyone can benefit from exercise, the mechanistic links between physical fitness and overall health are not fully understood, nor are the reasons why the same exercise can have different effects in different people. Now a study published in Nature Metabolism led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IMAGE: ANIMATION OF A PERSON WAKING UP FROM ANESTHESIA CREDIT: JACOB DWYER, MICHIGAN MEDICINE Millions of surgical procedures performed each year would not be possible without the aid of general anesthesia, the miraculous medical ability to turn off consciousness in a reversible and controllable way. Researchers are using this powerful...
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY Normal cells usually have multiple solutions for fixing problems. For example, when DNA becomes damaged, healthy white blood cells can use several different strategies to make repairs. But cancer cells may “put all their eggs in one basket,” getting rid of all backup plans and depending on just one pathway to...
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE NEW YORK (May 26, 2021) — About 12,000 bacteria and viruses collected in a sampling from public transit systems and hospitals around the world from 2015 to 2017 had never before been identified, according to a study by the International MetaSUB Consortium, a global effort at tracking microbes that is led by...
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago are a step closer to discovering why it is so difficult for people to withdraw from some antidepressant medications. The paper “Antidepressants produce persistent Gαs associated signaling changes in lipid rafts following drug withdrawal,” published in the journal Molecular Pharmacology, addresses the molecular and cellular...
