by IOS Press Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study led by a Baycrest clinician-scientist titled “Enhancing Clinical Visibility of Hearing Loss in Cognitive Decline” demonstrated that point of care screening for hearing loss in patients of a memory clinic raised physicians’ awareness of its high prevalence among their patients and led to more frequent...
Folks with sleep apnea are typically prescribed a CPAP machine to help them get a good night’s sleep, but there’s an alternative to the clunky, noisy devices that is growing in popularity. Oral appliances similar to mouthguards—called mandibular advancement devices (MADs)—have been shown to work as well as CPAP in treating sleep apnea for many patients, experts say. MADs...
by University of California, San Francisco Credit: CC0 Public Domain Some 58% of seniors with probable or possible dementia had otherwise good to excellent health, yet more than half of the total took six or more regular medications—a habit that may, at best, strain insurance costs and budgets, and at worst may result in adverse...
by Isabella Backman, Yale University Fig. 1: Schematic representation of physiological and pathological roles of platelets. Credit: Nature Cardiovascular Research (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s44161-022-00021-z As a graduate student studying molecular cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic/Case Western Reserve University, John Hwa, MD, Ph.D., professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine), found himself in an environment where many labs were studying platelets,...
by Michael Merschel, American Heart Association News If you struggle with the switch to daylight saving time, you might feel enlightened to learn it’s not just in your head. It involves an interplay between the clock, sunshine and your body at a cellular level. Planning ahead to shift clocks forward one hour, which happens this...
by Trinity College Dublin Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Irish and German scientists have just identified how specific immune cells can work together in fat to cause inflammation that leads to weight gain and obesity. Their work pinpoints new avenues to exploit the regulation of that inflammation in fat tissue, thereby suggesting new ways to manage...
by American Society of Nephrology Multiple studies have shown that individuals with kidney failure who are undergoing dialysis mount weaker antibody responses after COVID-19 vaccination than people in the general population, but new research indicates that these individuals’ immune responses are still capable of protecting against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19. The findings are published...
by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress TMT AD Protein Co-Expression Network. (A-C) 516 dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) tissues from the Religious Orders Study and Memory and Aging Project (ROSMAP, n=84 control, 148 AsymAD, 108 AD) and Banner Sun Health Brain Bank (Banner, n=26 control, 58 AsymAD, 92 AD) were analyzed by tandem mass tag mass spectrometry...
by University College London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A UCL-led international trial exploring the effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) treatment in children has led to a change in the World Health Organisation’s global guidelines for managing the disease. The research, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that the treatment duration for the majority of children with drug...
Berries, veggies, fish, whole grains, and rapeseed oil are the main ingredients of the Nordic diet concept that, for the past decade, have been recognized as extremely healthy, tasty, and sustainable. The diet can prevent obesity and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Until now, Nordic...
