by Melissa Rohman, Northwestern University Mazhar Adli, PhD, associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Division of Reproductive Science in Medicine and senior author of the study published in Developmental Cell. Credit: Northwestern University Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered a potential therapeutic target for the most common type of pancreatic cancer, according to a study published...
by Tohoku University Compression garments are commonly used by athletes. Credit: Tohoku University Compression garments are an elastic cloth fittings that people wear on their arms, legs, or hips during or after physical exercise. Their use has gained popularity over the last few decades because they are thought to enhance muscle recovery following exercise. An international...
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLUMBUS, Ohio – The drug gabapentin, currently prescribed to control seizures and reduce nerve pain, may enhance recovery of movement after a stroke by helping neurons on the undamaged side of the brain take up the signaling work of lost cells, new research in mice suggests. The experiments mimicked ischemic stroke in humans,...
STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY IMAGE: PROFESSOR LIZ BOATH CREDIT: STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY A Staffordshire University Professor has published an essential guide to help EFT practitioners share their experiences of how ‘tapping’ is being used to treat people around the world. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) or ‘tapping’ is a combined somatic and cognitive therapy which thousands of therapists and practitioners...
by Public Library of Science Researchers from Queen Mary University find that genetic risk scores help predict type 2 diabetes in people of south Asian origin. Credit: Genes & Health Research Team, Queen Mary University (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Combining a genetic risk score with a clinical risk score improved the prediction of type 2 diabetes in British...
by Luciana Constantino, FAPESP Time-lapse phase images of melanoma B16F10-Nex2 cells treated with Rb4 and Scr-Rb4. (A) Panels are representative fields of B16F10-Nex2 cells after control, Rb4 or Scr-Rb4 treatment for 1, 6, 12 and 24 h of incubation. Loss of morphology and no replication was observed for Rb4-treated cells. (B) Representative panels of B16F10-Nex2 cells...
by Johns Hopkins University Graphical abstract. Credit: Current Biology (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.077 Working with rats, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University have pinpointed a mechanism in the brain responsible for a common type of age-related memory loss. The work, published today in Current Biology, sheds light on the workings of aging brains and may deepen our understanding of Alzheimer’s...
Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses delegates during the first day of the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Credit: Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of...
Being examined by Congolese doctors, a Manfuette village teenage boy is suspected of having monkeypox in Manfuette, Republic of Congo Tuesday, August 29, 2017. The Washington Post/Getty Images Since early May 2022, many countries in Europe, as well as Australia, and the U.S. have reported an increasing number of monkeypox cases. As a viral disease...
Published May 20, 2022 Ricky Zipp Reporter Philips Dive Brief: The Food and Drug Administration released new data about medical device reports associated with Philips Respironics’ ongoing sleep apnea and ventilator recall, including more than 100 cases of patient deaths and tens of thousands of total reports. Between April 2021 and April 30, 2022, the FDA received...
