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Alcohol consumption may be a modifiable risk factor for age-related macular degeneration

Even though Dry January is over, new research suggests you may want to consider keeping the no-alcohol challenge going all year, especially if you're among the nearly 2 million Americans who have age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a sight-threatening eye condition.

28 Feb 2022

Peer-led online communities effective in increasing HIV self-testing among MSM of color

A new University of California, Irvine-led study, called the HOPE (Harnessing Online Peer Education) HIV study, revealed that using peer-led online communities was successful in increasing HIV self-testing and reducing alcohol consumption among Latinx and African American MSM (men who have sex with men).

28 Feb 2022

New signature initiative on increasing alcohol taxes could benefit people’s health, reduce mortality

Across the Region, alcohol consumption leads to almost one million deaths each year from a wide range of causes, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), as well as infectious diseases and injuries.

28 Feb 2022

Researchers explore possible use of stress reduction in atrial fibrillation management

Stress has been linked with poor health outcomes, though the exact mechanism remains poorly defined. Psychological stress is recognized as a contributing factor in atrial fibrillation (AFib), both in initiation and heightening of AFib.

23 Feb 2022

$5 million federal grant helps establish innovative community-based behavioral health program at NYU Langone

To address the sharp rise in mental health challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, an innovative community-based behavioral health program is bringing novel peer-to-peer counseling, telehealth, advanced psychiatric care, and early intervention programs for youth and young adults to Southeast Brooklyn.

22 Feb 2022

Discovery could lead to new treatment approach for people with alcohol-associated liver disease

Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have uncovered a new pathway that helps explain how consuming too much alcohol causes damage to the liver, specifically mitochondrial dysfunction in alcohol-associated liver disease.

22 Feb 2022

Surfactant-containing oral mouthwashes target the lipid envelope of SARS-CoV-2

Researchers demonstrated the composition and importance of SARS-CoV-2 lipid envelope and assessed the antiviral potential of oral mouthwashes targeting these lipid envelopes.

21 Feb 2022

As covid slogs on, seniors find fortitude waning and malaise growing

Late one night in January, Jonathan Coffino, 78, turned to his wife as they sat in bed. "I don't know how much longer I can do this," he said, glumly.

18 Feb 2022

COVID-19 survivors more likely to suffer from mental health problems

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into its third year, countless people have experienced varying degrees of uncertainty, isolation and mental health challenges.

17 Feb 2022

Study: One in four women has experienced domestic violence within their lifetime

New research published in The Lancet estimates that over one in four women have experienced domestic violence within their lifetime.

16 Feb 2022

Study analyzes trends in overdose deaths from use of non-benzodiazepines and gabapentinoids

With an alarming rise in the number of prescriptions filled for non-benzo sleeping/z-drugs and anti-epilepsy gabapentinoids over the last two decades, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health aimed to fill in the gap in knowledge in the proportion of overdose deaths involving those medications and learn more about their co-usage with other substances across U.S. demographics categories.

16 Feb 2022

Study shows the true prevalence of statin intolerance worldwide is between 6 to 10%

As many as one in two patients stop taking statins, reduce the dose or take them irregularly because they believe the cholesterol-lowering drugs cause muscle pain and other side-effects.

16 Feb 2022

Transformational $104 million gift will help VCU to expand treatment options for liver diseases

Virginia Commonwealth University will radically expand treatment options for liver and liver-related metabolic diseases thanks to a historic, transformational $104 million gift from Richard Todd Stravitz, M.D., and his family's Barbara Brunckhorst Foundation.

15 Feb 2022

New tool appears to accurately identify patients at risk of death from alcohol-associated hepatitis

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new scoring system to help health care professionals predict the 30-day mortality risk for patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis, and the tool appears to more accurately identify patients at highest risk of death and those likely to survive.

15 Feb 2022

Trauma centers expand care to treat patients with mental health and substance use disorders

Most patients who show signs of alcohol or opioid/stimulant drug use associated with injury now undergo screening and/or intervention in Level I and II trauma centers, according to national survey results.

14 Feb 2022

Discovery may lead to new treatment approach for people with alcohol-associated liver disease

14 Feb 2022

Liver cirrhosis has higher hospitalization and in-hospital mortality rates in Germany

In Germany, liver cirrhosis has the highest mortality rate of any chronic disease requiring hospital admission. When diagnosed as a comorbidity of other chronic diseases, liver cirrhosis at least doubles the mortality rate.

12 Feb 2022

Pharmacological manipulation could restore microglia function after exposure to industrial toxin in utero

New research shows that exposure to the industrial byproduct TCDD in utero could cause the brain's immune system to go array later in life, damaging important brain circuits, and potentially giving rise to neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism and ADHD.

11 Feb 2022

Individuals with alcohol problems may have lower functional connectivity in brain regions that process emotions

People predisposed to heavy drinking and alcohol problems may have lower functional connectivity - the patterns of signaling between brain areas - in regions that process emotions and social situations.

10 Feb 2022

Researchers identify and characterize a previously unrecognized key player in cancer evolution

Researchers led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have identified and characterized a previously unrecognized key player in cancer evolution: clusters of mutations occurring at certain regions of the genome.

9 Feb 2022

Alcohol News and Research

Alcohol consumption may be a modifiable risk factor for age-related macular degeneration

Peer-led online communities effective in increasing HIV self-testing among MSM of color

New signature initiative on increasing alcohol taxes could benefit people’s health, reduce mortality

Researchers explore possible use of stress reduction in atrial fibrillation management

$5 million federal grant helps establish innovative community-based behavioral health program at NYU Langone

Discovery could lead to new treatment approach for people with alcohol-associated liver disease

Surfactant-containing oral mouthwashes target the lipid envelope of SARS-CoV-2

As covid slogs on, seniors find fortitude waning and malaise growing

COVID-19 survivors more likely to suffer from mental health problems

Study: One in four women has experienced domestic violence within their lifetime

Study analyzes trends in overdose deaths from use of non-benzodiazepines and gabapentinoids

Study shows the true prevalence of statin intolerance worldwide is between 6 to 10%

Transformational $104 million gift will help VCU to expand treatment options for liver diseases

New tool appears to accurately identify patients at risk of death from alcohol-associated hepatitis

Trauma centers expand care to treat patients with mental health and substance use disorders

Discovery may lead to new treatment approach for people with alcohol-associated liver disease

Liver cirrhosis has higher hospitalization and in-hospital mortality rates in Germany

Pharmacological manipulation could restore microglia function after exposure to industrial toxin in utero

Individuals with alcohol problems may have lower functional connectivity in brain regions that process emotions

Researchers identify and characterize a previously unrecognized key player in cancer evolution

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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