Researchers have unveiled a compound that measures up as a potentially powerful anti-coronavirus drug. Stanford University Credit: iStock Although COVID-19 has faded from the headlines, SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus behind the pandemic – is still rampantly infecting people around the world. Public health officials fear as the virus continues to evolve, it will eventually hit...
New finding provides a potential approach to managing symptoms of recurring UTIs. Duke University Health System A perplexing problem for people with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) is persistent pain, even after antibiotics have successfully cleared the bacteria. Now Duke Health researchers have identified the likely cause – an overgrowth of nerve cells in the...
An artificial intelligence model can accurately identify tumors and can draw a map to explain each diagnosis.Beckman Institute Researchers at the Beckman Institute developed an artificial intelligence model that can accurately identify tumors and diseases in medical images. The tool draws a map to explain each diagnosis, helping doctors follow its line of reasoning, check...
by José Tadeu Arantes, FAPESP More than 700,000 people take their own lives every year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization . Credit: Gordon Johnson/PixabayIn an article published in the journal Psychiatry Research, Brazilian scientists describe a number of molecular alterations found in the blood and brain tissue of individuals who committed suicide. According...
by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research machinery shown by the fibrillarin protein (green) in the nucleus (blue) that stimulates the nucleolar stress response and initiates leukaemia cell death. Credit: Peter MacResearchers have found a new way to potentially treat one of the most common forms of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The study, led...
by The University of Hong Kong Will Wei QIAO. Credit: The University of Hong Kong A research team at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has discovered that exosomes derived from γδ-T cells not only have direct anti-tumor effects but also, when developed into a tumor vaccine, can effectively induce...
by Lauran Neergaard This combination of MRI scan images provided by the New England Journal of Medicine in March 2024 shows the progress of a glioblastoma patient who received CAR-T therapy which uses modified versions of T cells from a patient’s own immune system. Studies published by the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday,...
by Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Credit: Karolina Grabowska from PexelsGlobally, more than half of patients die after infection with the neglected tropical disease, melioidosis, often before they are diagnosed. A new rapid test could save lives by diagnosing patients in hours rather than several days taken by current bacterial culture methods, meaning they receive the...
by Stacy Pigott, University of Arizona Credit: CC0 Public DomainA new study by researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences identified a link between poor sleep and migraine attacks that suggests improving sleep health may diminish migraine attacks in people with migraine. Many people with migraine report having sleeping disorders, including insomnia, trouble falling...
by Ohio State University Medical Center Regular exercise helps Paula Cole manage her multiple sclerosis symptoms. For years she felt helpless to fight her disease, but after connecting with a neurologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, she is empowered to live well with the disease, and advocate for the increasing number of...
