by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainAlmost 30% of the patients in a pilot program for those with psoriasis that was devised by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania were identified as having undiagnosed, elevated risk for cardiovascular disease. Those patients were then...
by American College of Physicians Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA new protein risk score developed to predict the risk of death for persons with heart failure (HF) has demonstrated good calibration and may help clinicians better stratify mortality risk in these patients. The score is published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Heart failure is a complex clinical...
by Lori Solomon Most women with osteoporosis want to know their fracture risk, but only half have received this information from health care providers, according to a study published online Nov. 13 in Osteoporosis International. Charlotte Beaudart, Ph.D., from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and colleagues used data from the Risk Communication in Osteoporosis study...
Nancy A. Melville A high proportion of patients treated with the thyroid eye disease drug teprotumumab (Tepezza) report signs of hearing dysfunction after three to four infusions, with nearly half having symptoms that appear persistent, according to a single-center analysis. “Hearing loss is a concerning adverse event [of teprotumumab] and its mechanism, and reversibility should...
By Bronwyn Thompson While complex, increased risk of suicidal ideation could come down to blood compoundsDepositphotos In a finding that could have a significant impact on personalized medicine and treatment, scientists have identified blood compounds linked to suicidal ideation. University of California (UC) San Diego researchers have found biomarkers linked to mitochondrial dysfunction, which interrupts how...
Researchers from Charité and McGill University quantify association between Helicobacter pylori and Alzheimer’s diseasePeer-Reviewed Publication CHARITÉ – UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN Infection with the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori could increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease: In people over the age of 50, the risk following a symptomatic infection can be an average of 11 percent higher,...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center Illustration of using Ceograph for pathology image classification. a Flowchart of traditional image classification (upper arrow) and Ceograph (bottom arrow). The Ceograph method includes nuclei identification through HD-Staining, graph construction, and classification. The application to lung cancer histology subtype classification is used as an example. The image patches are 1024 × 1024 pixels...
A retrospective statistical analysis found that 40 percent of assault-related injuries leading to anoxia (decreased oxygenation) and 30 percent of neck bruising were the result of intimate partner violence incidentsPeer-Reviewed Publication BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL A new study underscores the alarming occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) as the cause of assault-related injuries resulting in...
by Julia Rinner, Technical University Munich Novel image-based flow cytometry enables the identification of cell aggregates and their components. a Scheme of a flow cytometry setup including a DHM and a microfluidic chip. The insert illustrates the applied principle of hydrodynamic focusing in two dimensions. b Study workflow: consisting of admission of patients to the hospital,...
Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a small study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found that positron emission tomography (PET) scans of the heart may identify people who will go on to develop Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia among those at-risk for these diseases. The findings, published in the Journal of...
