by Laura Ungar Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Holly Nover grew up trying to hide her stutter. “I was very self conscious,” said the 40-year-old St. Johns, Florida mom, whose 10-year-old son Colton also has a speech impediment. “So I developed habits to switch my words so it wouldn’t be noticed.” For centuries, people have feared...
by Joshua Melvin The once-taboo party drug ketamine is growing as an at-home treatment against depression, but some experts worry it’s happening too fast. Americans are paying to get a star of the psychedelic medicine movement—ketamine—shipped to them for at-home mental health treatments that are being called both a breakthrough and a gamble. A pandemic-spurred...
by Ohio State University Medical Center Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University College of Medicine gives insight into what happens to the cardiovascular system of adolescents when they vape. In the mouse study, researchers found that vaping had a significant and long-term cardiovascular effect on adolescent males...
by Frontiers Credit: CC0 Public Domain A sufficient intake of vegetables is important for maintaining a balanced diet and avoiding a wide range of diseases. But might a diet rich in vegetables also lower the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Unfortunately, researchers from the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, the...
by RMIT University Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers have used sound waves to turn stem cells into bone cells, in a tissue engineering advance that could one day help patients regrow bone lost to cancer or degenerative disease. The innovative stem cell treatment from researchers at RMIT University offers a smart way forward for overcoming...
by Lori Friedman, Lehigh University Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research out of Lehigh University has revealed several aspects of how neurons communicate with each other in the brain that were previously unknown. The work involves electrical synapses, which provide a major form of communication between neurons in the brain, says Julie Haas, an associate professor...
By JANON FISHER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 01:51 EST, 20 February 2022 | UPDATED: 03:58 EST, 20 February 2022 The waiting lists for organ transplants worldwide could get dramatically shorter thanks to a revolutionary new procedure that would make donor organs compatible with any patient no matter their blood type. Canadian researchers with the University Health Network have developed a method...
By Julia Musto, Fox News February 19, 2022 12:08pm The BMJ study included only people who had no mental health diagnoses or treatment for at least two years prior to infection. Getty Images/Maskot Coronavirus is causing mental health issues in patients, according to new studies. In a large study published Wednesday in the journal The BMJ, researchers from...
SCIENT PUBLIC RELATIONS, INC. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 18, 2022 — Codiak BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDAK), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of exosome-based therapeutics as a new class of medicines, today announced the online publication of a new manuscript, Exosome mediated genetic reprogramming of tumor associated macrophages by exoASO-STAT6 leads to potent monotherapy anti-tumor efficacy,...
Pauline Anderson January 24, 2022 Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Impaired cognition associated with COVID-19 appears to have a biological vs psychological basis, early research suggests. Investigators found abnormalities in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and other risk factors, including diabetes and hypertension, present in individuals with mild COVID-19...
