by Wiley Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research indicates that among individuals with breast cancer, those with a rare subtype called inflammatory breast cancer face a higher risk that their cancer will spread, or metastasize, to the brain. The study is published online in the Cancer journal. Studies have demonstrated higher rates of brain metastases in patients...
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS VIDEO: ANIMATION SHOWING AN ANEURYSM ARISING FROM A BLOOD VESSEL BIFURCATION, PROGRESSIVELY EXPANDING AND ENDING IN RUPTURE. CREDIT: SAJAN ABDUL SALAM, SUBASH M. NAIR, B. JAYANAND SUDHIR WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2022 – Cerebral aneurysms appear in 5% to 8% of the general population. The blood vessel rupture and resultant blood leakage...
The paper by Madeline Smith-Johnson, a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Rice University sociology department, appears in the journal Health Affairs. “I’m really interested in LGBTQ elders, and as I think about aging and the different types of things that expose people to faster biological aging at a younger chronological age, the first...
by Alex Smith, University of Minnesota Medical School Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School found that patients with certain features on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart are at much higher risk for cardiac sarcoidosis-related adverse outcomes. These patients may benefit from an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. Meanwhile, other...
by American Academy of Neurology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People who have had bariatric surgery may have an increased risk of developing epilepsy, according to a study published in the September 28, 2022, online issue of Neurology. “Bariatric surgery, which involves altering your digestive system, has become a more common treatment for weight loss,” said study author...
by University of Oxford Incidence rates by age band for major osteoporotic fracture in women and men with and without intellectual disability. Number of fractures per 10,000 person years by age. Filled circles represent age band specific incidence rates. Age bands are 1-year in children and 5-year in adults. The bars represent 95% CI. Credit: eClinicalMedicine (2022)....
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Of the 37 million Americans with diabetes, up to 50% may end up with nerve damage, or diabetic neuropathy, that can be painful and disabling. While some medications can reduce pain, scientists continue searching for factors that cause patients to develop diabetic neuropathy – to identify ways to reduce...
by Lori Dajose, California Institute of Technology An example of a Stroop Paradigm test. It takes a bit of extra mental effort to name the color of a word when it doesn’t match the word itself. Credit: Caltech Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition that damages a person’s ability to think, remember, and perform basic...
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM IMAGE: UVA HEALTH’S CHRISTOPHER KRAMER, MD, AND COLLABORATORS HAVE DEVELOPED A NEW WAY TO TRACK PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE. CREDIT: DAN ADDISON | UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COMMUNICATIONS Cardiovascular experts at UVA Health have found a new way to track peripheral artery disease (PAD), a serious medical condition involving atherosclerosis in the...
by Radiological Society of North America Free-breathing phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) low-field MRI at 0.55T with calculated parameters at an axial plane after automatic registration to a mid-expiration position and lung parenchyma segmentation. From left to right, representative color-coded images of functional show ventilation defects (VDP, blue), perfusion defects (QDP, red), ventilation/perfusion (V/Q match, green), ventilation/perfusion...
