By JOE DAVIES HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 03:09 EST, 18 November 2022 | UPDATED: 07:50 EST, 18 November 2022 A world-first drug that can delay the later stages of type 1 diabetes by up to three years was today hailed as a ‘seismic shift’ in the race to beat the illness. Regulators at the US Food...
by King’s College London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Long-term exposure to air pollution can increase the risk of high blood pressure in teenagers, a new study has found. The review, published recently in Current Problems in Cardiology, by researchers from King’s College London, looked at eight studies with 15,000 adolescents—children aged twelve and over. Five of...
Oregon State University scientists have invented a way to make magnetic nanoparticles that get hotter than any previous nanoparticle, improving their cancer-fighting ability. Faculty from the OSU College of Pharmacy spearheaded a collaboration that developed an advanced thermal decomposition method for producing nanoparticles able to reach temperatures in cancer lesions of up to 50 degrees Celsius, or...
by Adriana Sanchez, Brigham Young University Medical forms with privacy assurances can lead people to lie more about their health history. Credit: BYU Photo Nearly every time you walk into a doctor’s office, you can count on filling out some form. One of those is usually related to HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...
Headaches may increase the risk for dry eye disease (DED), according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online Oct. 19 in the Annals of Medicine. Shuyi Liu, from Dalian Medical University in China, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature search to identify studies evaluating whether headache is associated with the risk for DED. Based on...
by Susan Buckles, Mayo Clinic Credit: Mayo Clinic Applying regenerative medicine to a common shoulder surgery could have an impact on the need for follow-up revision surgery in some patients, according to a Mayo Clinic study of real-world evidence. Mayo Clinic researchers analyzed the largest set of data available to determine if adding bone marrow...
by Laura Williamson, American Heart Association News When it comes to reduced-carb diets, it may be quality, not quantity, that matters most. New research finds that animal-based, low-carbohydrate eating was associated with a higher Type 2 diabetes risk, whereas plant-based, low-carb eating was associated with a lower diabetes risk. The research, recently presented in Chicago...
by Krista Conger, Stanford University Medical Center Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Stem Cell (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2022.10.009 Muscle stem cells, the cells in muscle fibers that generate new muscle cells after injury or exercise, lose their potency with age. But a study by researchers at Stanford Medicine shows that old mice regain the leg muscle strength of younger...
by Indiana University School of Medicine A high-molecular-weight tau seed interacts with BSN protein. a, Schematic of the tau-seeding assay of SEC fractions. b, Tau-seeding activity of SEC fractions obtained from 3-month-old PS19 and WT mouse brain lysates. c, Total human tau (hTau) detected by ELISA in SEC fractions from PS19 and WT mouse brain lysates. d, Tau-seeding activity...
CEMM RESEARCH CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE OF THE AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IMAGE: SARA BERNARDO, JOANNA I. LOIZOU, ANNA SCHREMPF CREDIT: DOMINIK KIRCHHOFER, KLAUS PICHLER, LAURA ALVAREZ/CEMM In a recent study, researchers from Joanna Loizou’s group from CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Medical University of...
