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Study shows geriatric risk factors associated with inability to return home after surgery

Older adults have a different physiology and unique set of needs that may make them more vulnerable to complications following a surgical procedure.

22 Jul 2019

Researchers identify toxin responsible for Legionella growth

A team of scientists led by EMBL group leader Sagar Bhogaraju and Ivan Dikic of Goethe University, Frankfurt, discovered that the toxin SidJ in Legionella bacteria enforces a unique modification on human proteins and helps legionella grow inside human cells.

22 Jul 2019

CHLA researcher receives NIH grant to study repair and regeneration mechanisms in the gut

Chemotherapy and radiation target cancer cells but these treatments produce unwanted side effects on healthy tissue.

22 Jul 2019

Microbial compound found in infant gut increases allergy, asthma risk

A study of newborn infants has identified a compound produced by gut bacteria that appears to predispose certain infants to allergies and asthma later in life.

22 Jul 2019

Researchers identify encephalitis as rare toxicity of immunotherapy treatment

After a cancer patient receiving an immunotherapy developed encephalitis and died 18 months into treatment, researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigated why the complication occurred, performing a molecular analysis of the disease's pathology and mining data to determine the incidence of similar occurrences.

22 Jul 2019

New technology helps develop more personalized treatments for patients with advanced cancers

Being able to identify targets for adoptive cell therapies is one of the first steps in developing personalized treatments for people with hard-to-treat cancers.

22 Jul 2019

Study examines role of plastic exposure in irregular heart rhythms, arrhythmias

Calling an ambulance during an emergency, emailing a breaking news or journal article before a 5 p.m. deadline and maintaining conditions during the fifth week of a 6-week lab study, without altering the light or temperature, requires electricity and translates into time, money and lives

22 Jul 2019

Survey: Parents blame themselves to be main barrier to teen independence

Something most parents don't want to hear from their teenager: I am not prepared to be an adult, and it's your fault.

22 Jul 2019

Rutgers participates in Big Ten-Ivy League Epidemiology of Concussions study

Data on every consenting Rutgers athlete who experiences a concussion is helping to inform a large-scale, nationwide study aimed at making sports safer for student-athletes.

22 Jul 2019

How the Eastern Cherokee took control of their health care

Light pours through large windows and glass ceilings of the Cherokee Indian Hospital onto a fireplace, a waterfall and murals.

22 Jul 2019

Study finds how best to grow gut microbes to improve human health

A young scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has received a prestigious grant to determine how best to grow gut microbes to fight disease and improve human health.

22 Jul 2019

Harvesting hidden information in chest X-rays using AI to predict mortality

The most frequently performed imaging exam in medicine "the chest X-ray" holds 'hidden' prognostic information that can be harvested with artificial intelligence, according to a study by scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital.

22 Jul 2019

Research shows dramatically rising ED visits related to alcohol

New research shows dramatically rising visits to emergency departments (ED) related to alcohol, especially for women, with a 175% increase in alcohol-related visits from young people aged 25 to 29.

22 Jul 2019

A bath 90 minutes before bedtime best for a good night’s sleep, experts say

Do you have trouble sleeping? Taking a bath approximately 90 minutes before sleeping may help you sleep faster and better, a new study suggests.

22 Jul 2019

ADHD impairs school readiness in preschoolers

Preschoolers with symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are much less likely than other children their age to be ready for school, new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found.

22 Jul 2019

Half Marathon runner makes remarkable recovery after cardiac arrest

Soma Ambadapudi did not make it to the finish line of the 2019 Aramco Houston Half Marathon but he is happy with how things worked out nonetheless.

22 Jul 2019

$Operative and non-operative treatment in proximal humerus fractures shows no difference$

Operative and non-operative treatment in proximal humerus fractures shows no difference

The results of a recent Nordic collaboration study showed that there is no difference in functional results between operative and non-operative treatment in persons aged 60 or more with displaced proximal humerus fractures.

22 Jul 2019

New machine-learning models could improve prediction of surgical-case duration

Operating rooms are a precious resource. They may account for 50 percent of a hospital's revenues and cost as much as $80 a minute. But figuring out how much time to allot for a surgery is a challenge every hospital faces.

22 Jul 2019

Understanding how anti-malarial drug primaquine works lead to more effective malarial therapies

Researchers at LSTM have taken significant steps in understanding the way that the anti-malarial drug primaquine works, which they hope will lead to the development of new, safer and more effective treatments for malaria.

22 Jul 2019

Aging nerve cells fail to take out the intracellular "trash"

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have found that with age the neurons or nerve cells fail to perform an activity that they could when they were younger. The team explains that normal cells take out protein and other “trash” or “garbage” through a process of autophagy. This rids the cell of the dysfunctional proteins and aggregates of unused proteins.

22 Jul 2019