by Children’s National Hospital Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Contrary to popular belief, rest from school may not always be the best after a concussion, a new study published in JAMA Network Open finds. In fact, an early return to school is associated with a lower symptom burden after suffering a concussion and, ultimately, faster recovery. “As a...
Erin Prater Fri, January 20, 2023 at 1:24 PM MST A so-called “super strain” of gonorrhea—against which many types of antibiotics are less effective or not effective at all—has been identified in the U.S. for the first time, health officials said Thursday, raising further concern that a post-antibiotic era is approaching. The case, identified in Massachusetts,...
By Ben Coxworth January 26, 2023 Peptides in the spray kill bacteria (pictured) by damaging their protective outer membranes Depositphotos It’s always good if the use of antibiotics can be avoided, to keep harmful bacteria from developing a resistance to them. A new wound-treatment spray could help, as it kills bacteria using peptides that occur...
Sponsored Content by ACROBiosystems Jan 27 2023 Reviewed by Alex Smith The global COVID-19 pandemic is in its third year. The effects of the pandemic have been far-reaching and are still being felt worldwide, affecting every country to varying degrees. Lockdowns, social distancing, travel bans, and vaccine rollouts have been widely reported news occurrences since...
Numerous labs across the world have shown that inflammation causes reduced motivation and anhedonia, a core symptom of depression, by affecting the brain’s reward pathways. Past research from the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine has linked the effects of inflammation on the brain to decreased release of dopamine, a chemical neurotransmitter that...
A new technological development from Tel Aviv University (TAU) has made it possible for a robot to smell using a biological sensor. The sensor sends electrical signals in response to a nearby odor, which the robot can detect and interpret. In this new study, the researchers successfully connected the biological sensor to an electronic system and, using a machine learning...
UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG IMAGE: PHD STUDENT ARNDÍS ÓLAFSDÓTTIR AND PROFESSOR MARCUS LIND, SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG. CREDIT: PHOTO BY ELIN LINDSTRÖM/UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG A large clinical study is now beginning on an approved drug for treating psoriasis. The drug will be tested on patients who were recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes....
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE IMAGE: PET IMAGING SHOWS PRETOMANID DISTRIBUTION, WHICH REVEALED HIGH PENETRATION OF PRETOMANID INTO THE BRAIN. CREDIT: SANJAY JAIN LAB FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Findings from a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study in animal models show that a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved antibiotic regimen for multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) may not work...
ATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST IMAGE: CERESET RESEARCH WITH STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES (CR-SOP) IS THE EVOLUTION OF HIRREM, OR HIGH-RESOLUTION, RELATIONAL, RESONANCE-BASED ELECTROENCEPHALIC MIRRORING, A NONINVASIVE, CLOSED-LOOP TECHNOLOGY THAT USES SCALP SENSORS TO MONITOR BRAINWAVES AND SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS TO TRANSLATE SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES INTO AUDIBLE TONES OF VARYING PITCH. CREDIT: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE...
by University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a new paper published by the journal Gastroenterology, researchers from University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, review studies about the microbiome’s role in disease and health, and discuss tactics for developing probiotics to modulate the microbiome...
