By Janelle Chavez, CNNPublished 5:01 PM EDT, Mon March 20, 2023 Clinical cases of Candida auris, an emerging fungus considered an urgent threat, rose sharply in 2021. Nicolas Armer/picture alliance/Getty Images/FILECNN — Clinical cases of Candida auris, an emerging fungus considered an urgent threat, nearly doubled in 2021, according to new data from the US Centers for...
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER BOSTON – In April 2021, new federal rules went into effect mandating that healthcare providers make nearly all test results and clinical notes immediately available to patients. Evidence suggests that patients may gain important clinical benefits by reviewing their medical records, and access through electronic patient portals has been advocated...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION CONTENT UPDATED 3/17 – note new references to cardiac rehabilitation. Statement Highlights: A new scientific statement indicates supervised exercise therapy may help improve symptoms for people with one of the most common types of heart failure, known as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), in which the heart muscle’s pumping strength...
by Christoph Elhardt, ETH Zurich Laufhose: The textile sensor above the knee is connected to an antenna embedded in the waistband. Together, they form a circuit that can be used to measure movement. Credit: Valeria Galli / ETH Zurich Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an electronic yarn capable of precisely measuring how a person’s body...
by Northwestern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers should focus on age, not weight, to capture the greatest number of people in all racial and ethnic groups with prediabetes and diabetes, recommends a new Northwestern Medicine study. Screening all adults aged 35 to 70 years, regardless of weight, identifies the greatest proportion of adults with...
by University of Cambridge Alternative splicing coupled to nonsense-mediated decay is revealed to control cold-induced expression of the neuroprotective protein RBM3. Inducing RBM3 by modulating its alternative splicing through ASOs at normothermia is neuroprotective in vivo and has great therapeutic potential. Credit: EMBO Molecular Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.15252/emmm.202217157 Scientists in Cambridge and Berlin have used a form...
by Nagoya University Enzyme-regulating macrophages found in both humans and mice open the door to translating findings in mice into human therapies. Credit: Issey Takahashi Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have identified two enzymes that are involved in macrophage polarization, one of the key factors affecting fibrosis. The group’s findings, reported in Cell Death &...
by McGill University Health Centre Credit: Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.02.023 Just like pruning a tree helps promote proper growth, the brain uses synaptic pruning to get rid of unnecessary connections between its cells. However, when this normal process, which occurs between early childhood and adulthood, doesn’t stop properly, the brain loses too many connections, including important ones....
People with MS who have sleep disorders notice more changes in their thinking Peer-Reviewed Publication MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN For women with multiple sclerosis who report cognitive dysfunction — one of the most common and disabling symptoms of the disease — sleep disorders such as insomnia and sleep apnea may contribute to the...
by Kerry Grens, Washington University in St. Louis Immunohistochemistry staining of activated microglia in putamen of an individual with AD (microglia labeled by marker protein P2RY12, brown, and activation indicated by TREM2 transcripts, red). Credit: Guoyan Zhao, Ph.D. Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer, Parkinson and Huntington disease each cause their own distinct set of symptoms,...
