by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hot flashes and night sweats are a common cause of insomnia among peri- and postmenopausal women. Hot flashes, night sweats and insomnia are all linked to reduced quality of life and distress. Despite how common insomnia disorder associated with night sweats is, treatment options are limited....
by American College of Physicians Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has released its 2022 Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule that includes changes to the zoster, pneumococcal, and hepatitis B vaccines. COVID-19 vaccinations are now included in the notes section of the schedule and can be co-administered with other vaccines. The...
You used to be able to make snap judgments in your 20s, but now it feels like you take a lot longer to react to questions, decisions and challenges put before you. Don’t fret, it’s not that you’re losing brain power. Your response time does tend to slow down as you age, but a new study...
by Stanford University Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Brain organization differs between boys and girls with autism, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The differences, identified by analyzing hundreds of brain scans with artificial intelligence techniques, were unique to autism and not found in typically developing boys and girls. The...
Written by Liz Carey Published on December 14, 2021 Key takeaways: Grief is a process that is different for everyone, and can sometimes take years — or even decades — to fully go through. Gary Roe navigated his way through grief by journaling, talking with others, and vocalizing his thoughts. Today, he’s an author, speaker,...
As part of its partnership with Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (C2SHIP), Keck Medicine of USC has developed a new, interactive smart boot to help diabetic patients recover from dangerous foot wounds. The work was conducted in a multiphase study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Every second, someone with diabetes develops a dangerous...
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON IMAGE: GRAPHIC SUMMARY OF FINDINGS CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON Research has found that prescriptions of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduced over the two years before the pandemic. However, they were still being given to some people at high risk of kidney damage. The study was led by Dr Simon Fraser, Associate Professor of...
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI New University of Cincinnati research discovered a unique class of medications that act as blood thinners by inhibiting an enzyme in the genes of tick saliva. The research focused on novel direct thrombin inhibitors (DTI) from tick salivary transcriptomes, or messenger RNA molecules expressed by an organism. The result is the development...
by Carrie Foust, University of Illinois at Chicago Stem cell-derived neurons created in the Regenerative Medicine and Disability Laboratory at UIC allow researchers to see how certain drugs or gene therapies can work in human nerve cells. Credit: Xue-Jun Li/UIC Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago found promising results in their search for a...
by University of Barcelona Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Juvenile fibromyalgia is a syndrome characterized by a chronic pain affecting the whole body. It also causes fatigue as well as sleep and mood disorders. It affects children and adolescents—mainly girls—worldwide and it appears during a critical period of the brain development. Analyzing the brain changes that...
