by Jacqueline Squire Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain I have had ongoing nasal congestion and mucus for the past several months. I thought it was allergies, but my doctor says I likely have acute sinusitis brought on by allergic rhinitis. I was advised to try nonprescription medications to relieve my symptoms rather than antibiotics. What is...
by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Graphical abstract. Credit: Immunity (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2022.08.004 A new discovery about how cells make antibodies has revealed the surprisingly random way the body’s immune system defends against infection and disease. The WEHI-led study showed cells responsible for making antibody proteins use a randomization process to determine which type...
by Alex Smith, University of Minnesota Medical School Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School found that patients with certain features on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart are at much higher risk for cardiac sarcoidosis-related adverse outcomes. These patients may benefit from an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. Meanwhile, other...
For children with acute infective conjunctivitis, topical antibiotics are associated with a shorter duration of conjunctival symptoms, according to a study published online Oct. 4 in JAMA Network Open. Minna Honkila, M.D., Ph.D., from Oulu University Hospital in Finland, and colleagues conducted a randomized trial in primary health care in Finland involving children with acute infective conjunctivitis to examine the...
by University of Cincinnati PET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: public domain New research from the University of Cincinnati bolsters a hypothesis that Alzheimer’s disease is caused by a decline in levels of a specific protein, contrary to a prevailing theory that has been recently called into question. UC researchers led...
OCTOBER 3RD, 2022 CONN HASTINGSCARDIAC SURGERY, GI, MATERIALS, RADIOLOGY, TELEMEDICINE, VASCULAR SURGERY At the University of Minnesota, researchers have developed a soft robotic system that can ‘grow’ like a plant. The mechanism allows it to travel through difficult-to-access areas, such as the tortuous gastrointestinal tract or vasculature. The system works by extruding a liquid through...
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by Karina Toledo, FAPESP Research by groups at the University of São Paulo and the State University of Campinas combined MRI scans of the brains of mild COVID-19 patients, analysis of brain tissue from people who died of the disease and experiments on human nerve cells infected in the laboratory. Image demonstrating cortical thickness atrophy in...
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY IMAGE: LEFT TO RIGHT: PROFESSOR JULIAN CHEN AND HIS COLLABORATORS FROM THE SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, DHENUGEN LOGESWARAN AND KHADIZA AKHTER. CREDIT: MARY ZHU For the very first time, a study led by Julian Chen and his group in Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences and the...
by Elin Bäckström, Uppsala University Overview of the randomized, counterbalanced within-subjects design. Boxes highlighted in gray illustrate the two at-home adaptation phases (i.e., day 1 to 3 and day 6 to 9); in blue, the sole adaptation night (day 4); and in orange, the two experimental days (days 5 and 10). Credit: Journal of Sleep Research (2022)....
