F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE This transcript has been edited for clarity. Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. Imagine, if you will, the great Cathedral of Our Lady of Correlation. You walk through the majestic oak...
Beth Snyder BulikSenior Editor(This story is from our new Health Tech newsletter. If you’d like to sign up, just click here.) Eli Lilly has struck a deal with Amazon Pharmacy to deliver its obesity, diabetes and migraine medicines directly to patients. Amazon will work through Lilly’s recently launched LillyDirect telehealth platform. It’s the first time...
Alicia Ault Nearly 18 months after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first acknowledged a national shortage of Adderall, the most common drug used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), there is now a widespread scarcity of other stimulant medications — with no end in sight. How did this crisis develop and what measures are...
by Rutgers University Credit: CC0 Public DomainAdults 65 and older who were hospitalized for a variety of medical conditions had highly satisfying conversations about whether they wanted CPR, regardless of whether doctors used the terms “allow a natural death” or “do not resuscitate” for indicating no CPR, according to a pilot study by Rutgers Health...
by Elana Gotkine For people with HIV (PWH) and a history of suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy, long-acting injectable treatment with cabotegravir and rilpivirine (LAI) is superior to oral standard of care (SOC), according to a study presented at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held from March 3 to 6 in Denver....
In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers used murine (A/J mice) models to evaluate the anti-cancer efficacy of different oils consumed as a part of ketogenic diets (KDs). Specifically, they compared seven commonly consumed, fat-enriched KDs with Western-style diets and a 15% carbohydrate diet as controls. Their results revealed that all ketonic diets...
The new study investigated the role of vitamin A in skin cells’ lineage plasticity. Sarah Whelan, PhD Hair follicle stem cells (green) mobilize and expand (white) to help repair the skin’s barrier by differentiating into epidermal lineages (red). Credit: Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University. Retinoic acid,...
A newly discovered genetic arrangement may help a common bacterium in the human gut protect itself from a widely used antibiotic. Original story from The Marine Biological Laboratory Credit: Don Stalons/ CDC Antibiotic resistance is a significant and growing medical problem worldwide. Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and collaborators have found a novel...
by University of Virginia Atherosclerosis is a condition affecting the cardiovascular system. If atherosclerosis occurs in the coronary arteries (which supply the heart) the result may be angina pectoris, or in worse cases a heart attack. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY 3.0University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have found important answers about strokes, heart attacks, and...
by SPIE Using commercial visible and near-infrared sensors, such as those in smartphones and smartwatches, it is possible to estimate blood glucose levels non-invasively based on the asynchronicity between oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin oscillations. Credit: Nakazawa et al., doi 10.1117/1.JBO.29.3.037001.Diabetes is a prevalent disease that, unfortunately, still has no cure. People with diabetes need to monitor...
