New research, published in Nature Scientific Reports, conducted by the University and partners highlights effective methods for identifying a common side effect in children receiving drug treatments for Cystic fibrosis. The genetic disorder, cystic fibrosis (CF) is characterized by secondary bacterial lung infections, often by a specific resistant bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antibiotics known as aminoglycosides have good efficacy...
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Study finds the frequency of alpha brain waves could be used to assess a person’s predisposition to pain
The personal experience of pain is highly variable among individuals, even in instances where the underlying injury is assessed to be identical. Credit: University of Birmingham The frequency of alpha brain waves can be used as a measure of an individual’s vulnerability to developing and experiencing pain, researchers at the University of Birmingham in the...
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Increase in heart rate as blood pressure falls could be early sign of neurological disease
A simple bedside test that matches a change in heart rate with a drop in blood pressure after a patient stands may help doctors diagnose certain degenerative brain diseases. This is the finding of a study led by neurologists at NYU School of Medicine and published in the March issue of Annals of Neurology. The test...
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MELISA utilizes a smartphone for biomedical testing
In order to get bloodwork or urinalysis done, samples obtained from patients are typically sent off to a lab. Thanks to a new device that’s being developed at the University of South Florida, however, it may soon be possible to perform such analyses right in a doctor’s office. Presently, if a physician wants to test...
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Accurately identifying aggressive head and neck cancers
The Case Western Reserve-led research team will analyze computerized images of tissue samples for patterns which could become “biomarkers,” or predictors, for determining relative risk for recurrence in one particularly common type of head and neck cancers. Those tumors, known as oropharyngeal cancers, occur primarily at the base of the tongue and in the tonsils....
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Is my child depressed? Being moody isn’t a mental health issue
It is difficult to open up a magazine or newspaper today without seeing a headline trumpeting the presence of a “mental health crisis” —particularly on our college and university campuses. Indeed, if the media coverage is to be believed, we are drowning in a sea of mental illness that threatens to overwhelm post-secondary institutions. The call...
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New method identifies type 2 diabetics at risk of early death
Type 2 diabetes has consequences for the entire body. A new method uses a urine sample, and not a blood test, to identify the consequences of disease. When you hear the phrase ‘adult-onset diabetes’, your first thought might be of excessive blood sugar levels and obesity. Picturing an adult carrying extra weight around his or...
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Altered neural responses in memory processing in T1DM
(HealthDay)—Young adults with type 1 diabetes have altered neural responses during working memory processing, according to a study published online March 12 in Diabetes. Christine M. Embury, from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and colleagues examined the correlation between diabetes and cognitive impairment in a cohort of young adults with and without type 1 diabetes...
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Prostate MRI reveals more treatable cancers, reduces overdiagnosis than standard biopsy
Copenhagen: A large international study has shown that an MRI scan can reduce the number of invasive prostate biopsies by up to 28%. The PRECISION trial shows that using MRI to target prostate biopsies leads to more of the harmful prostate cancers, and fewer harmless cancers being diagnosed. Given that more than a million men...
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The bassoon causing new brain disorder
IMAGE: MRI ANALYSIS OF A PATIENT WITH PSP-LIKE SYMPTOMS SHOWED SEVERE ATROPHY OF THE BILATERAL HIPPOCAMPUS, MESENCEPHALIC TEGMENTUM, CEREBELLUM, AND BRAINSTEM. Newly discovered gene mutations may help explain the cause of a disease that drastically impairs walking and thinking. Mutations have been found in the bassoon (BSN) gene, which is involved with the central nervous system,...