CONN HASTINGS EXCLUSIVE, NEUROLOGY, OPHTHALMOLOGY Luminopia, a company based in Cambridge, MA, has developed Luminopia One, a visual content system that aims to treat amblyopia, also known as ‘lazy eye,’ in young children. The condition is caused by neurological deficits that typically affect vision in one eye. At present, the condition is treated using corrective glasses, eye patches,...
As antibiotics increasingly develop resistance to bacteria that cause infection, scientists have moved a step closer to harnessing viruses as an alternative form of therapy. Phage therapy is the concept of using viruses (known as phage) to kill bacteria, instead of using antibiotics. A growing number of infections, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhoea, and salmonellosis, are...
IMAGE: ASLEEP CREDIT: PISAUIKAN, PIXABAY, CC0 (HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/PUBLICDOMAIN/ZERO/1.0/) Multiple measures of sleep patterns and sleep efficiency are associated with lifetime diagnoses of mental illness, according to a new study that used wrist accelerometer data to track sleep. The study is publishing October 12th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Shreejoy Tripathy of the University of Toronto and the...
TORONTO, October 12, 2021 – People who have been diagnosed with a mental illness are more likely to have poor sleep quality compared to the general population, according to the largest study of its kind ever conducted. The CAMH-led study, “Accelerometer-derived sleep measures and lifetime psychiatric diagnoses,” has just been published in the journal PLOS Medicine. “The differences...
IMAGE: PLASMA BIOMARKERS MEASURED THREE MONTHS AFTER HOSPITALIZATION DEMONSTRATE UTILITY IN ASSESSING AKI PATIENTS FOR LONG-TERM CKD RISK. CREDIT: PLEASE CITE AS “VISUAL ABSTRACT FOR WILSON M ET AL, BIOMARKERS DURING RECOVERY FROM AKI AND PREDICTION OF LONG-TERM REDUCTIONS IN ESTIMATED GFR, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES (2021), DOI: HTTPS:// DOI.ORG/10.1053/J.AJKD.2021.08.017.” A panel of plasma biomarkers...
VIDEO: PARTICIPANTS SIT IN FRONT OF LEAP MOTION CONNECTED TO A LAPTOP, GRIP AND RELEASE THEIR FINGERS AS RAPIDLY AND AS FULLY AS POSSIBLE 20 TIMES. CREDIT: TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY Cervical myelopathy (CM)(1) results from compression of the spinal cord in the neck and causes difficulty moving the fingers and unsteady gait. As patients...
IMAGE: INRS PROFESSOR CHARLES RAMASSAMY, SPECIALIST ON ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, DOCTORAL STUDENT MOHAMED RAÂFET BEN KHEDHER AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDENT MOHAMED HADDAD. CREDIT: INRS Research conducted by the Ph.D student Mohamed Raâfet Ben Khedher and the postdoctoral researcher Mohamed Haddad of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has shown that an oxidation-antioxidant imbalance in the blood...
by Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Many variants in the human genome have been linked to type 2 diabetes, but because most do not lie within genes that code for proteins, it’s unclear how they might cause disease. Now an international team, including investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has developed a resource to...
by Washington University in St. Louis Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a compound that prevents SARS-CoV-2 and related coronaviruses from entering cells. The researchers are collaborating with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to test the compound in animal models of COVID-19. Pictured is the compound, called MM3122, (yellow) blocking the...
by University of Pittsburgh Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As women near menopause, their menstrual cycle length often becomes longer. The timing of these changes could provide clues about a person’s risk of developing heart disease, according to a new study led by University of Pittsburgh researchers. Published today in Menopause, the study characterizes cycle length changes over the menopause transition and found...
