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New animation series launched to improve parental understanding of brain development in premature infants

Professor Caroline Hartley, Principal Investigator, and Dr Marianne van der Vaart, Postdoctoral Researcher, in the Paediatric Neuroimaging Group at the Department of Paediatrics, have today launched a series of animations aimed at improving parental understanding of brain development in premature infants, and the effect it has on breathing and apnoeas (the cessation of breathing).

7 Mar 2024

MGI Tech and Eurofins Genomics Partner to Elevate Precision Health with Revolutionary DNBSEQ-T20×2 Sequencer and Related Technologies

MGI Tech, a company committed to building core tools and technology to lead life science, today proudly announced a milestone collaboration with Eurofins Genomics Europe Genotyping A/S (“Eurofins Genomics”), which has placed a corporate order of the revolutionary DNBSEQ-T20×2 (“T20”) ultra-high throughput sequencer, along with the genomics data center ZTRON Appliance and a range of MGI’s state-of-the-art laboratory automation products and systems.

From MGI 6 Mar 2024

Robotic hip exoskeleton could be a promising avenue for stroke rehabilitation

More than 80% of stroke survivors experience walking difficulty, significantly impacting their daily lives, independence, and overall quality of life.

4 Mar 2024

Cross-cultural study reveals commonality and variation in mental representations of music

When listening to music, the human brain appears to be biased toward hearing and producing rhythms composed of simple integer ratios -; for example, a series of four beats separated by equal time intervals (forming a 1:1:1 ratio).

4 Mar 2024

Exercise improves health and fitness in schoolchildren, study finds

A study led by researchers from the UGR's Department of Physical Education and Sports, in collaboration with pediatricians from the Paediatric Endocrinology Unit of the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital in Granada and external national and international partners, has shown that schoolchildren who exercise improve their physical fitness and health.

4 Mar 2024

Clinigen launches 'What is Possible?' campaign to expand access to rare disease treatments

Clinigen, the global pharmaceutical services company, today launched a new campaign called ‘What is Possible?’ to help empower patients and medical professionals to ask what more is possible in the treatment of rare diseases.

4 Mar 2024

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Alabama’s IVF ruling still making waves

Reverberations from the Alabama Supreme Court's first-in-the-nation ruling that embryos are legally children continued this week, both in the states and in Washington.

29 Feb 2024

UW researchers find similarities between diabetes and Alzheimer's protein clusters

Of the 38 million Americans who have diabetes at least 90% have Type 2, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

29 Feb 2024

Innovative in-vehicle sensing system helps detect cognitive decline in older drivers

An estimated 4 to 8 million older adults with mild cognitive impairment are currently driving in the United States, and one-third of them will develop dementia within five years.

29 Feb 2024

Hospital privatization leads to lower quality care, study reveals

A new review has concluded that hospitals that are privatized typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership. The study, led by University of Oxford researchers, has been published today in The Lancet Public Health (video summary available in the notes section).

28 Feb 2024

Novel brain organoid model unveils link between inflammation and astrocyte dysfunction

The brain is typically depicted as a complex web of neurons sending and receiving messages. But neurons only make up half of the human brain.

28 Feb 2024

Bariatric surgery outperforms medical management in long-term diabetes control

People with type 2 diabetes who underwent bariatric surgery achieved much better long-term blood glucose control compared to people who received medical management plus lifestyle interventions, according to a new study published in JAMA, or Journal of the American Medical Association, and funded by the National institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of The National Institutes of Health.

27 Feb 2024

Pregnancy care was always lacking in jails. It could get worse.

It was about midnight in June 2022 when police officers showed up at Angela Collier's door and told her that someone anonymously requested a welfare check because they thought she might have had a miscarriage.

23 Feb 2024

Underutilized obesity treatments could transform patient health

When someone has obesity, losing even 5% of their body weight can make a major difference in their health -- especially if they can keep from regaining it.

21 Feb 2024

Translating brain activity data into audiovisual experiences

Complex neuroimaging data can be explored through translation into an audiovisual format – a video with accompanying musical soundtrack – to help interpret what happens in the brain when performing certain behaviors.

21 Feb 2024

Digital DNA melting analysis can be a faster and more reliable tool for pathogen detection

A new analysis method can detect pathogens in blood samples faster and more accurately than blood cultures, which are the current state of the art for infection diagnosis.

21 Feb 2024

Study reveals high prevalence of persistent COVID-19 infections in general population

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found that a high proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the general population lead to persistent infections lasting a month or more.

21 Feb 2024

Novel open-source platform can learn and predict user-defined behaviors from video data

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University Hospital Bonn and the University of Bonn have created an open-source platform known as A-SOiD that can learn and predict user-defined behaviors, just from video.

21 Feb 2024

Weekend warrior exercise approach comparable to regular exercise for weight loss

Whether you engage in physical activity on a regular basis or one-to-two days a week, both options produce weight loss suggests a new study published in the journal Obesity, The Obesity Society's (TOS) flagship journal.

20 Feb 2024

Adolescent males with anorexia nervosa have higher mortality rates

Anorexia nervosa affects males as well as females, and affected males have a sixfold higher mortality rate than males in the general population. A new article published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) aims to raise awareness of this life-threatening eating disorder.

20 Feb 2024

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New animation series launched to improve parental understanding of brain development in premature infants

MGI Tech and Eurofins Genomics Partner to Elevate Precision Health with Revolutionary DNBSEQ-T20×2 Sequencer and Related Technologies

Robotic hip exoskeleton could be a promising avenue for stroke rehabilitation

Cross-cultural study reveals commonality and variation in mental representations of music

Exercise improves health and fitness in schoolchildren, study finds

Clinigen launches 'What is Possible?' campaign to expand access to rare disease treatments

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Alabama’s IVF ruling still making waves

UW researchers find similarities between diabetes and Alzheimer's protein clusters

Innovative in-vehicle sensing system helps detect cognitive decline in older drivers

Hospital privatization leads to lower quality care, study reveals

Novel brain organoid model unveils link between inflammation and astrocyte dysfunction

Bariatric surgery outperforms medical management in long-term diabetes control

Pregnancy care was always lacking in jails. It could get worse.

Underutilized obesity treatments could transform patient health

Translating brain activity data into audiovisual experiences

Digital DNA melting analysis can be a faster and more reliable tool for pathogen detection

Study reveals high prevalence of persistent COVID-19 infections in general population

Novel open-source platform can learn and predict user-defined behaviors from video data

Weekend warrior exercise approach comparable to regular exercise for weight loss

Adolescent males with anorexia nervosa have higher mortality rates

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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