by American Chemical Society With the inherent sleep and wake cycle regulated by natural sunlight, the human body has evolved over millennia to be active during the day and to rest at night. However, maintaining an optimal 24-hour cycle has become increasingly problematic in modern society as more people spend the majority of the day indoors....
Researchers examined three of the most commonly prescribed blood thinners for patients with blood clots or atrial fibrillation Reports and Proceedings MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN When diagnosed with a blood clot or atrial fibrillation, patients are often prescribed anticoagulants, or blood thinners, to prevent a future clot. In a study of the three...
by Vladimir Hedrih (Photo credit: Adobe Stock). A meta-analysis of studies examining the effects of qigong, tai chi, and yoga-based interventions on symptoms of anxiety and depression found that yoga-based interventions were effective in decreasing these symptoms. Tai chi and qigong had no effect on depression symptoms. The authors of the study reported a high...
Autoimmune patients in CAR-T study see striking improvements across lupus and other diseasesLei Lei WuNews ReporterSAN DIEGO — All of the first 15 autoimmune disease patients who received CAR-T therapy at a German hospital saw the debilitating symptoms of their diseases, including lupus and myositis, substantially improve or go away entirely, according to new research...
Arianna Sarjoo One in three patients who experience their first bout of atrial fibrillation (AF) during hospitalization can expect to experience a recurrence of the arrhythmia within the year, new research shows. The findings, reported today in the Annals of Internal Medicine , suggest these patients may be good candidates for oral anticoagulants to reduce...
By Ben Coxworth A solidified sono-ink structure (red) printed inside a heart modelAlex Sanchez, Duke University; Junjie Yao, Duke University; Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School In order to keep surgeries minimally invasive, it would be great if implants could be injected into the body in liquid form, then solidified once in place. Well, a new...
In mice and human cell cultures, MIT researchers showed that novel nanoparticles can deliver a potential therapy for inflammation in the brain, a prominent symptom in Alzheimer’s disease Peer-Reviewed Publication PICOWER INSTITUTE AT MIT A FIGURE FROM THE PAPER SHOWS THAT AN SIRNA DELIVERED BY A LIPID NANOPARTICLE WAS ABLE TO REDUCE EXPRESSION OF THE...
Myles Starr NEW YORK — New treatments for acne, including the recent FDA approval of a topical gel that combines an antibiotic, a retinoid, and an antimicrobial agent, and reports on the safe use of lasers in people with darker skin types, were presented at the 26th annual Mount Sinai Winter Symposium – Advances in...
University of Cambridge Researchers have discovered that misreading of therapeutic mRNAs by the cell’s decoding machinery can cause an unintended immune response in the body. They have identified the sequence within the mRNA that causes this to occur and found a way to prevent ‘off-target’ immune responses to enable the safer design of future mRNA...
Efforts to streamline the process of academic research collection in the medical field using generative AIPeer-Reviewed Publication OSAKA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY ACCURACY AND EFFICIENCY LEVELS DIFFER DEPENDING ON THE AI USED CREDIT: OSAKA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY Can AI save us from the arduous and time-consuming task of academic research collection? An international team of researchers investigated the...
