by Kingston University, London Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence-enabled eye scans could be used to rapidly and accurately predict whether a person is at high risk of heart disease, a new study involving researchers from London’s Kingston University has established. The findings could pave the way for cardiovascular screening to be done more quickly and simply...
by Radiological Society of North America Normal chest X-ray. Credit: Radiological Society of North America Researchers have developed a deep learning model that uses a single chest X-ray to predict the 10-year risk of death from a heart attack or stroke stemming from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Results of the study were presented today at the...
by Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University From left, Qian Ma, PhD, and Yuqing Huo, MD, PhD. Credit: Michael Holahan, Augusta University Soon after cholesterol and fat start depositing on the lining of the blood vessels that supply your heart, the smooth muscle cells that give the blood vessels strength and flexibility start to...
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Since March 2020, COVID-19-related deaths claimed over a million lives in the U.S. alone. In the pandemic’s early phases, most deaths were among older adults, but in 2021, deaths in younger persons increased while deaths in older persons decreased. A new study by two investigators from...
by Radiological Society of North America Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain One in five women is likely to forgo additional testing after an abnormal finding on a screening mammogram if there is a deductible, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). As health care...
by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Regulation and function of GPR55 signaling in atherosclerosis. a–d, Plasma, spleens and aortic roots were collected from Apoe−/− mice at baseline or after 4 weeks and 16 weeks of WD to determine LPI plasma concentrations (n = 7–8; *P = 0.05 and ***P = 0.0042) (a) or relative splenic mRNA expression of the gene encoding the LPI-synthesizing enzyme...
By LUKE ANDREWS HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 06:59 EST, 29 November 2022 | UPDATED: 07:53 EST, 29 November 2022 Steroid injections used to treat arthritis in the knee may actually make the condition worse, two studies suggest. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Chicago Medical School gathered data from hundreds of osteoarthritis patients to gauge how their condition would react...
GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH IMAGE: A KILLER T CELL (CENTRE) HUNTING A TARGET CELL. CREDIT: NIH IMAGE GALLERY CREDIT: NIH IMAGE GALLERY Gene variants associated with leukaemia can produce ‘rogue’ immune cells that drive autoimmune diseases, according to a new study from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. Scientists had previously noticed that leukaemia...
by University of Chicago Medical Center Aneuploidy and TMB are synergistic predictors of survival following immunotherapy. Credit: Nature Genetics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01235-4 In many cancer types, cancer cells try to survive by escaping attack from the immune system. These cancer cells hijack mechanisms called immune checkpoints to trick the immune system into thinking they are healthy cells....
by Harvard University Characterization of a microfluidic human vagina-on-a-chip model. A A diagram of a two-channel organ chip viewed from above (left) and a higher magnification micrograph through a cross section of a vagina chip showing a stratified human vaginal epithelial cells cultured in the top channel atop a 50-μm thick porous membrane (dashed lines indicate top...
