by Ellen Goldbaum, University at Buffalo Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Like women in every other sector of the economy, those working in academic medicine have been negatively impacted by the exceptional demands put on them by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a commentary called “Pandemic-related barriers to the success of women in research: A framework...
by University of Rochester Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, we were hopeful that pre-existing immunity to the common cold could protect you from COVID, but new evidence suggests that sometimes the opposite can happen. A new University of Rochester Medical Center study shows that prior infection and immunity to...
In the United Kingdom, regulatory health bodies are recommending the widespread use of a weight-loss injection using the drug semaglutide. AlePinna/Getty Images Obesity and overweight are widespread globally and increase the risk of many health conditions. A new injectable treatment, semaglutide, has just been recommended for use in the United Kingdom. In a study, those...
by Crystal Phend, Contributing Editor, MedPage Today March 2, 2022 While the lavender-scented spritz from Walmart might have seemed the furthest thing from exotic, the Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria inside sparked a deadly melioidosis outbreak that CDC scientists highlighted as a reason to watch for unexpected infections. “Health care providers should consider melioidosis in patients with a compatible illness,...
Megan Brooks February 10, 2022 Most adults in the US who have chronic pain favor a combination of non-drug and non-opioid approaches to control their pain, which is “encouraging,” new research shows. A national survey reveals 55% of adults with chronic pain used pain management techniques that did not involve any opioids at all during...
[email protected] 3/2/2022 Since Sept. 11, 2001, more than 30,000 active duty members and veterans have taken their own lives – four times as many as those killed in post-911 military operations. Current methods to detect early signs of behavioral and mental health risk factors rely on self-reporting and screening questionnaires, which can’t reliably predict suicidality....
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) hold great promise for treating many currently untreatable diseases. Scientists can turn them into brain, liver, heart and other types of cells that could mend injured or unhealthy ones. However, the processes for culturing and differentiating hiPSCs into other kinds of cells take a lot of time and resources,...
by Columbia University A key fragment of the protein TMEM106B, several atomic models of which are shown here, can stack into single or twinned types of fibrils. Credit: Andrew Chang and Anthony Fitzpatrick / Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute / Cell Take a cell-deep tour of a brain afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, and you will find minuscule...
by Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Skoltech, two Russian Academy of Sciences institutes, and U.S. biotech companies VirIntel and Argentys Informatics have investigated the effect of coronavirus immunization with three popular vaccines: Moderna, Pfizer, and the Russian Sputnik V. The team found that complete vaccination—that is, getting both...
by Anna Megdell, University of Michigan Graphical abstract. Credit: Cancer Cell (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2022.02.003 Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center found that a cytokine, a category of protein that acts as messengers in the body, and a fatty acid can work together to trigger a type of cell death previously defined by studies with...
