by University of Basel Credit: CC0 Public Domain People who drink more than three liters of fluid a day may be suffering from a rare hormone deficiency. For many, however, it is just a harmless habit. Failing to differentiate the two correctly can be fatal, so researchers have been investigating what kind of test delivers a...
by Stellenbosch University South Africa Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Two landmark clinical trials reported at the Union Conference in Paris showed that an oral antibiotic taken for six months once-daily substantially reduced the risk of developing drug-resistant TB. The antibiotic levofloxacin safely reduced the risk of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) disease in children by 56%,...
by Anja Stübner, Dresden University of Technology Citizen interaction with the standard health consent; the setting of consents for data inputs to the personal health record (PHR), and the setting of consents for data sharing (outputs) from the PHR for primary and secondary use. Credit: Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpdig.2023.07.008 For the first...
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT researchers have designed a wearable ultrasound monitor, in the form of a patch, that can image organs within the body without the need for an ultrasound operator or application of gel. Credit: MIT MIT researchers have designed a wearable ultrasound monitor, in the form of a patch, that can image...
by University of Exeter Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Understanding how the human pancreas develops is crucial to allow scientists to make insulin producing–beta cells in the quest to cure type 1 diabetes. Now, scientists have made a unique and surprising discovery—a gene that is essential for making the pancreas in humans is not present in almost...
by University of Arizona Lalitha Madhavan, MD, PhD, and her research team used induced pluripotent stem cell technology to reprogram adult skin cells into brain cells to study Parkinson’s disease. Credit: University of Arizona Health Sciences A study published in Progress in Neurobiology and led by researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson,...
by Northwestern University A health care worker places the wearable devices across a patient’s chest to capture sounds throughout the lungs that are associated with breathing. Credit: Northwestern University During even the most routine visits, physicians listen to sounds inside their patients’ bodies—air moving in and out of the lungs, heart beats and even digested food...
by Claes Björnberg, Umea University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many risk factors for multiple sclerosis (MS), which causes damage to the central nervous system, have been identified. However, it is still unknown why the disease occurs. In recent years, the herpesvirus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been established as the leading risk factor. “Over 90% of the...
by University of Liverpool Kaplan–Meier curves showing cumulative substance misuse event rates within the pooled exposed and unexposed groups (left), and with the exposed group stratified by exposure type (right). Credit: The Lancet Regional Health – Europe (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100763 The long-term use of painkillers from a young age may be linked to an increased risk...
by University of Hawaii at Manoa Credit: Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.omtn.2023.07.032 Gene therapy has great promise for treating genetic diseases, and even for more common diseases such as atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Over the past decade, the gene-editing technology CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)—a family of DNA sequences found...
