by Baylor College of Medicine Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Many people dread experiencing the cognitive and mood declines that often accompany reaching an advanced age, including memory disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and mood conditions like depression. While searching for new ways to prevent or treat these and other related conditions, a team at Baylor...
For millions of people with diabetes, insulin is essential medicine. But for some ocean-dwelling predators, insulin is a weapon. With a burst of venom, a fish-hunting cone snail can drop the blood sugar of its prey so precipitously that it quickly becomes paralyzed and defenseless. That remarkable phenomenon has inspired scientists at University of Utah Health, Stanford University...
By MANSUR SHAHEEN U.S. DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 13:12 EDT, 22 March 2022 | UPDATED: 13:17 EDT, 22 March 2022 Three blood pressure medications manufactured by the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer have been recalled after a potential cancer-causing chemical compound was discovered in them. Accuretic, along with two generic blood pressure medications licensed by the company, were found to have elevated...
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY IMAGE: MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IS A CHRONIC DISEASE THAT DAMAGES NEURONS. A WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY DOCTORAL STUDENT, KELLY MONAGHAN, IS RESEARCHING THE ROLE THAT A PROTEIN, STAT5, PLAYS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MS. CREDIT: WVU ILLUSTRATION/AIRA BURKHART A human immune system is a lot like the board game Mouse Trap: it’s a Rube...
RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA IMAGE: REPRESENTATIVE TRANSVAGINAL US IMAGES OF CLASSIC LESIONS; COLOR DOPPLER BLOOD FLOW WITH COLOR BAR SIGNIFIES DIRECTION OF FLOW. (A) TRANSVERSE COLOR DOPPLER IMAGE OF RIGHT ADNEXA DEPICTS AN ANECHOIC CYST WITH NO INTERNAL ELEMENTS OR DOPPLER FLOW, COMPATIBLE WITH A SIMPLE CYST. (B) TRANSVERSE COLOR DOPPLER IMAGE OF LEFT...
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA IMAGE: A CHILD USES A VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET. CREDIT: PHOTO BY DOROTHY KOZLOWSKI/UGA Working out isn’t known for being fun. But new active video and virtual reality games may help change that. Exergaming, or active video gaming, may be the perfect introduction to helping people be more active, according to new research...
CHARITÉ – UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN The treatment of fungal infections is often hampered by fungal pathogens that do not respond, or are tolerant, against anti-fungal drugs. A team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Francis Crick Institute have now identified microbial cooperation as one of the causes of this drug tolerance. A collaborative...
by University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Hodgkin lymphoma, nodular lymphocyte predominant (high-power view) Credit: Gabriel Caponetti, MD./Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Results from the ZUMA-12 trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center showed that first-line treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel), a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy,...
by Christina Griffiths, Indiana University School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology are studying new ways to treat seasonal or intermittent asthma. Their findings were recently published in Science Immunology. “Asthma has no cure and current treatments primarily focus on resolving the symptoms,” said Ben Ulrich, Ph.D.,...
by Jeff Dodge, Colorado State University Immune cells (nucleus of the cell shown in blue) that have uptaken the bacteria (red). Credit: Camron Pearce / Colorado State University A research team at Colorado State University has discovered that drugs used to treat malaria are also effective at treating a pulmonary disease similar to tuberculosis. Their...
