by Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University Credit: CC0 Public Domain A recent study has found that so-called “drug checking” programs have unexpected benefits, allowing public health programs to reach and work with people who use drugs who would otherwise not access services such as HIV testing. Drug checking refers to analyzing illegal drugs, or...
by Emma Yasinski, Stanford University Medical Center In this photo of a study participant’s eye with the implanted chip, the magenta oval shows the size of the beam projected from the glasses onto the retina. Credit: Yannick Le Mer Two years ago, a Stanford researcher and his team showed that with a thin, pixelated chip and...
by Tel-Aviv University Petri dish with tissue samples. Credit: Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology For the first time, researchers from Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology at Tel Aviv University have engineered 3D human spinal cord tissues and implanted them in lab model with long-term chronic paralysis. The results were highly encouraging: an approximately 80 percent...
by IOS Press Recovery of 75-degree Oculus visual field of each eye in patient K.H. following NIBS treatment. Dark areas represent regions of vision loss. They are located in the nasal part of the visual field in both eyes and improve following treatment, with additional recovery at follow-up. (MD = mean deviation; positive values indicate...
by Laura Williamson, American Heart Association Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.037332 New cases of a debilitating and often deadly type of stroke that causes bleeding in the brain have been increasing in the U.S., growing at an even faster rate among younger to middle-aged adults than older ones, new research shows. The findings show an...
by Institute of Cancer Research Figure 1. Characterization of baseline effects of pHIFU treatments on KPC tumors. (a) Treatment sequencing regime used in this study. Subjects were injected IP with a combination of anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 3 days before pHIFU exposures, on exposure day (immediately after pHIFU) and every 3 days thereafter until the time...
by University of Helsinki Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With aging populations and growing life expectancy, the number of people suffering from dementia is increasing. For more effective dementia prevention, it is important to better understand risk and protective factors affecting late-life cognition. It is known that midlife cardiovascular risk factors are associated with weaker late-life...
by University of Glasgow Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c20491 A new type of lightweight 3D-printed back brace capable of sensing how effectively it fits patients could lead to improved treatment for scoliosis, its developers say. Scoliosis, a common form of spine deformity, affects around three percent of the population, most often between the ages of...
(HealthDay)—Early diagnosis and care can often stop the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is the leading cause of vision loss in older Americans, the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) says. As part of AMD Awareness Month in February, the society urges people to pay attention to their vision and learn more about...
by Ben Bradley, The Conversation Credit: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals / Wikimedia Was Charles Darwin a one-hit wonder? According to scientists who take a gene’s-eye view of evolution, the 19th-century English naturalist contributed one crucial idea to understanding how species change: natural selection, or “design without a designer.” However, a book...
