by University of Pittsburgh Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainReinsurance programs, which were created to help lower premiums and increase enrollment in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces, may have had the opposite effects for many potential marketplace enrollees, according to a study by health policy researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Duke...
by Wolters Kluwer Health Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainFor years, scientists have expressed concern about potential adverse health effects of excessive exposure to short wavelength light (SWL), which includes the “blue light” from smartphones, laptops, and tablets. However, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) has identified a lack of consensus among public health officials about...
Leslie S. Baumann, MDA member of the Lamiaceae family, Salvia rosmarinus (rosemary), an aromatic plant native to the Mediterranean region and now cultivated globally, has been used for centuries in cuisine and medicine, with several well-established biological activities.[1,2,3] Thought to contribute to preventing hair loss, rosemary oil was also used for hundreds of years in...
By Deborah Balthazar ADOBEAs a fetus develops, its body is bathed in amniotic fluid: a warm, salty soup of nutrients, hormones, and antibodies produced by its mother. And into that fluid, a fetus is constantly sloughing off or peeing out cells, which provide genetic material that doctors can pull out with a needle and examine...
Lindsay Kalter Eugene Yang, MD, often confronts the complexities of weighing various medical interventions for high blood pressure. Among these is when to scale back antihypertensive drugs or stop them completely. photo of Eugene YangEugene Yang, MDHe considers a patient’s comorbidities, severity of symptoms, and risk factors for heart attack and stroke, among other variables....
by Institute of Cancer Research E3K CAR-T cells limit 4T1 tumor metastasis in NSG mice. Credit: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (2024). DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2023-008608A new type of immunotherapy that targets non-cancer cells could help prevent the growth and spread of breast cancer tumors, according to new research. The discovery, published 28 February in the Journal for...
by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert, Northeastern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainHuman safety trials of a novel antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease developed by Northeastern professor Kim Lewis are scheduled to start this spring in Australia, with results anticipated by fall. So far the therapeutic agent, an antibiotic known as hygromycin A, has not been toxic in animals...
by Purdue University R. Claudio Aguilar, a Purdue University researcher, has developed a patented therapeutic strategy for Lowe syndrome by repurposing two drugs previously approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Credit: Purdue University College of Science photo/Alisha ReferdaPurdue University researchers have developed a patented therapeutic strategy for Lowe syndrome, an incurable and rare genetic...
by University of Oklahoma Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainAs we age, does our physical appearance impact our physical and mental health? That question is at the core of research recently published in the journal Psychology and Aging. The study, led by Julie Ober Allen, an assistant professor of health promotion at the University of Oklahoma, found that...
by UC Davis Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA team of UC Davis Health clinicians and data scientists has developed a machine-learning model to better predict which patients are at greater risk of developing a common type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The findings of their research—published in the journal Gastro Hep Advances—describe how predictive-learning can aid...
