by eLife This image shows the effects of aging effects on the brain, further exacerbated in type 2 diabetes. Credit: Lilianne Mujica-Parodi (CC BY 4.0) Scientists have demonstrated that normal brain aging is accelerated by approximately 26% in people with progressive type 2 diabetes compared to individuals without the disease, reports a study published today...
by University of Missouri Credit: CC0 Public Domain An FDA-approved drug to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes also may decrease blood vessel dysfunction associated with aging, according to a new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Researchers initially examined the role aging plays in human blood vessel function...
by American Academy of Family Physicians Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study in the Annals of Family Medicine examines usage data from a provincial electronic consultation (eConsult) service in Ontario, Canada, which facilitates rapid and secure communications between primary care physicians and subspecialists. The research team sought to analyze eConsult’s impact on primary care physicians’ access...
by Paul Griffin, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock We’ve all become familiar with virus mutations over the course of the pandemic, and can all probably list off the COVID variants including alpha, delta and omicron. But now we’re hearing more and more about subvariants, as omicron mutates into omicron BA.2, omicron BA.4, omicron XE, and more....
by The Francis Crick Institute Images of the mouse olfactory bulb glomerular layer, taken using four different imaging methods. Credit: Carles Bosch Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed an imaging technique to capture information about the structure and function of brain tissue at subcellular level—a few billionths of a meter, while also capturing information about...
by Whitney Slightham, Virginia Tech Xiaobo Wu, the study’s first author and a graduate student in Virginia Tech’s Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Program, was mentored by Steven Poelzing, the study’s principal investigator and an associate professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute. Credit: Clayton Metz / Virginia Tech Less than 1% of the population...
by University of Saskatchewan Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110856 The body’s innate immune system, active from birth, is the first line of defense against viruses and other pathogens that cause disease. Using vaccination as an example, after receiving a vaccine, pain, redness, or swelling may occur at the injection site. This response is a...
by Delthia Ricks, Medical Xpress Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Tuberculosis is a major public health concern, an ancient bacterial disease that has claimed the lives of kings, presidents, poets and at least one star of Hollywood’s silver screen-era. Yet even now in the 21st century, it’s still impossible to shake the scourge. TB kills someone...
by Rosanna Castro, Florida International University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For decades, most physicians, parents and teachers have believed that stimulant medications help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) learn. However, in the first study of its kind, researchers at the Center for Children and Families at FIU found medication has no detectable impact...
From The University of Manchester Sep 14 2006 The University of Manchester investigation – announced on World Hearing Voices Day (Thursday, 14th September) – comes after Dutch researchers found that many healthy members of the population there regularly hear voices. Although hearing voices has traditionally been viewed as ‘abnormal’ and a symptom of mental illness, the Dutch...
