by Radiological Society of North America Diffusion tensor imaging, an MRI technique, of the brain. Credit: RSNA/Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.New research being presented this week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) links soccer heading—where players hit the ball with their head—to a measurable decline in the microstructure and...
Written by Sarah Gupta, MD | Reviewed by Sophie Vergnaud, MD Key takeaways: – There are many different things that can interfere with a good night of sleep. These include your environment, what you eat and drink, and even your mental and physical health.– Trouble sleeping can also be caused by sleep disorders, both temporary...
By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D.Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. A brief report published in the Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition describes the effect of vegetarian diets on all-cause mortality in adults in the United States. Study: Vegetarian diets and risk of all-cause mortality in a population-based prospective study in the United States. Image...
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Hair products often contain ingredients that easily evaporate, so users may inhale some of these chemicals, potentially posing health repercussions. Now, researchers have studied emissions of these volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including siloxanes, which shine and smooth hair. The scientists report in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology that using these hair care...
Claudia López Lloreda The worm Caenorhabditis elegans has 302 neurons (green) that researchers can study using tools such as fluorescent markers. Credit: Heiti Paves/Science Photo Library The idea that the nervous system passes messages from one nerve cell to another only through synapses — the points where the cells link up end to end —...
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET IMAGE: KRISTIN WALDENLINDCREDIT: PHOTO: STEFAN ZIMMERMAN Anti-rheumatic drugs used for rheumatoid arthritis might prevent the development of autoimmune thyroid disease, according to a new observational study by researchers from Karolinska Institutet published in the Journal of Internal Medicine. It is well known that patients with rheumatoid arthritis are at increased risk of autoimmune...
by Indiana University Histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9) acetylation and SPHK2 (sphingosine kinase 2) expression show a potential correlation in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients’ lungs. A, Representative immunoblot probed for acetyl-H3K9 (Ac-H3K9), total H3, tubulin, and Ponceau S staining in protein lysates of human idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (iPAH: type of group 1 pulmonary...
by Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute A) Timeline scheme of the experimental groups and procedures. Effect of (B–E) ischemic stroke and (F–I) intracerebral hemorrhage on (B,F) infarct or hemorrhage volume, (C,G) edema, (D,H) stroke-induced maximum hemispheric midline shift (broken white line) vs. the theoretical midline (solid black line), and (E,I) body weight loss; **...
by Michigan State University IL-1β expression is increased in enteric glia after inflammation. Credit: Science Signaling (2023). DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.adg1668Researchers at Michigan State University may have discovered why visceral pain is so common in people who have experienced inflammation in their guts, including patients with irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. Working with mouse models, MSU physiologists...
by Jim W. Harper, University of Florida Develop a clinical generative large language model, GatorTronGPT, for biomedical natural language processing, clinical text generation, and health care text evaluation. a Train GatorTronGPT from scratch using GPT-3 architecture with up to 20 billion parameters. b Solve biomedical relation extraction and question answering using a unified P-tuning base...
