Investigators found similarities in the bacterial composition of the mouth among patients with early rheumatoid arthritis and those at risk of developing the disease, compared with healthy individuals who were not at risk. The findings come from a study published in Arthritis & Rheumatology. Image credit: arembowski via Pixabay, free license Patients and at-risk individuals...
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY Sophia Antipolis – 28 June 2021: A study in more than 200,000 individuals has found that patients with heart failure are more likely to develop cancer compared to their peers without heart failure. The research is presented today at Heart Failure 2021, an online scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC),1...
An international team of scientists from Manchester, Montpellier, and Copenhagen has identified why some endurance athletes experience a heart rhythm disturbance called ‘heart block’. The University of Manchester-led study found that long-term exercise in retired racehorses – the best available model of the athlete’s heart – and in mice, triggered molecular changes in a part...
By BETSY LADYZHETS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 11:01 EDT, 24 June 2021 | UPDATED: 11:02 EDT, 24 June 2021 Bell’s palsy has been reported as a rare side effect of COVID-19 vaccines, but it is actually more common in those who get sick with the disease, a new study finds. Researchers at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve...
by University of Eastern Finland Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Acute elevation in certain plasma microRNAs (miRNAs), along with downregulation of the clusterin protein within two days post-injury can act as early diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for traumatic brain injury, according to the doctoral dissertation of Shalini Das Gupta, MSc. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when an...
by Sharita Forrest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Head and neck cancer survivors’ tongues are less sensitive at the tip, and problems with taste dysfunction may persist for years after patients complete oncology treatments, a team led by food science and human nutrition professor M. Yanina Pepino found in a study. Credit: Luka Gruev Most survivors...
Hypercapnia is a build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the blood. It occurs when tiny air sacs in the lungs called alveoli are unable to adequately exchange CO2 from the blood for oxygen. This form of respiratory failure can come on suddenly, with causes such as infection or an opioid overdose, and is particularly dangerous,...
WILEY In a study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, investigators developed and validated a genetic risk score for predicting the onset and severity of the most common type of scoliosis in adolescents–called adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). AIS causes spinal deformities in as many as 3% of youth, and because its heritability is high,...
KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC IMAGE: JOSEPH WIEMELS, Ph.D., CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY PROGRAM AT THE USC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER CREDIT: RICHARD CARRASCO Increased risk of cancer due to a genetic predisposition in first- and second-degree relatives is long-established but has previously only been studied in white or European populations. Now, a new study published...
Although dry eyes and headaches can share common triggers and occur at the same time, there has been no research to establish a causal connection between the two. However, if one trigger is causing both dry eyes and headaches, identifying and removing it may relieve both. Can dry eyes cause headaches? This is a common...
