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Using digital data and AI to improve quality of life for people with diabetes

Until now, medical doctors have used biomarkers to determine the health status of people with diabetes (PWDs).

14 Nov 2019

Relationship between binge drinking and depressive symptoms declined 16% among adolescents

Binge drinking among U.S. adolescents precipitously declined from 1991 to 2018, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Depressive symptoms among U.S. adolescents have sharply increased since 2012.

14 Nov 2019

Alzheimer's Association's funding enables expansion of aging study in longest running birth cohort

The Alzheimer's Association and University College London are partnering to study brain aging and dementia in 500 individuals whose health and health-related behaviors have been documented since birth.

14 Nov 2019

Bisphenol-s and bisphenol-f may have less impact on heart function than bisphenol-a

Some chemical alternatives to plastic bisphenol-a (BPA), which is still commonly used in medical settings such as operating rooms and intensive care units, may be less disruptive to heart electrical function than BPA, according to a pre-clinical study that explored how the structural analogues bisphenol-s (BPS) and bisphenol-f (BPF) interact with the chemical and electrical functions of heart cells.

14 Nov 2019

Antibiotic Resistance Threats report highlights significant gaps and impact of federal investments

The Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control today shows that while recent federal investments to combat antibiotic resistance have had meaningful impacts, the continued spread of infections that are not effectively treated by existing medicines pose deadly threats to patients and public health.

14 Nov 2019

Study offers promising methodology to capture biomechanical behaviour of aneurysm

An abdominal aortic aneurysm is a focal dilation of the abdominal aorta, that if not treated, tends to grow and may rupture. The most common treatment is EndoVascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR), which requires patients to undergo lifelong postoperative surveillance based on computed tomography angiography (CTA) due to the possible appearance of complications. These complications may again lead to aneurysm dilation and rupture.

14 Nov 2019

Aging experts promote global effort to improve healthy longevity

Across the world, more people are living longer. But "whether the extra years will be good ones -- and whether societies and economies will benefit as a result -- depends on the actions we take now," states an editorial in a new supplemental issue of the Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences from The Gerontological Society of America.

14 Nov 2019

Good fitness linked to longer life without dementia

It is important to say that it is never too late to begin exercising. The average participant in our study was around 60 years old at baseline, and improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness was strongly linked to lower dementia risk.

14 Nov 2019

Researchers develop, test new blood assay that predicts patients at risk of death from sepsis

After decades of little or no progress, biomedical researchers are finally making some headway at detecting and treating sepsis, a deadly medical complication that sends a surge of pathogenic infection through the body and remains a major public health problem.

14 Nov 2019

Blocking a molecule could delay the progression of multiple sclerosis

Over 77,000 Canadians are living with multiple sclerosis, a disease whose causes still remain unknown. Presently, they have no hope for a cure.

14 Nov 2019

New technique enables the study of transporter proteins at a single-molecule level

Like a boat helping passengers cross a river, transporters move substances across cell membranes. This process is fundamental to the healthy functioning of cells in life forms from bacteria to humans.

14 Nov 2019

Study finds sex differences in treatment and outcome after stroke

Women are more likely to survive a stroke, but have worse disability and poorer quality of life afterwards compared to men, according to research published in the latest issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

14 Nov 2019

Blocking metastasis-promoting enzyme can prevent spread of breast cancer

In a breakthrough with important implications for the future of immunotherapy for breast cancer, UC San Francisco scientists have found that blocking the activity of a single enzyme can prevent a common type of breast cancer from spreading to distant organs.

14 Nov 2019

Knocking out 'survival system' of cancer cells could improve effectiveness of melanoma treatment

The effectiveness of current treatments for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, could be improved by using approaches that wipe out the 'survival system' of cancer cells according to a study published in Nature Communications today.

14 Nov 2019

Nursing home safety violations put residents at risk, report finds

As huge swaths of California burned last fall, federal health officials descended on 20 California nursing homes to determine whether they were prepared to protect their vulnerable residents from fires, earthquakes and other disasters.

14 Nov 2019

Simple 'nudges' help improve heart patients' adherence to statins

Statins are an effective medication for treating patients with heart disease - they cut the risk of a second major adverse cardiac event by almost 50 percent. But only about six percent of patients take statins as prescribed. One way to solve that? Nudge them. Literally.

14 Nov 2019

Study looks at trends in added sugars consumption by infants and toddlers

A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, published by Elsevier, found that nearly two-thirds of infants (61 percent) and almost all toddlers (98 percent) consumed added sugars in their average daily diets, primarily in the form of flavored yogurts (infants) and fruit drinks (toddlers). Infants were 6-11 months, and toddlers were 12-23 months.

14 Nov 2019

Research News and Research

Using digital data and AI to improve quality of life for people with diabetes

Relationship between binge drinking and depressive symptoms declined 16% among adolescents

Alzheimer's Association's funding enables expansion of aging study in longest running birth cohort

Bisphenol-s and bisphenol-f may have less impact on heart function than bisphenol-a

Antibiotic Resistance Threats report highlights significant gaps and impact of federal investments

Study offers promising methodology to capture biomechanical behaviour of aneurysm

Aging experts promote global effort to improve healthy longevity

Good fitness linked to longer life without dementia

Researchers develop, test new blood assay that predicts patients at risk of death from sepsis

Blocking a molecule could delay the progression of multiple sclerosis

New technique enables the study of transporter proteins at a single-molecule level

Study finds sex differences in treatment and outcome after stroke

Blocking metastasis-promoting enzyme can prevent spread of breast cancer

Knocking out 'survival system' of cancer cells could improve effectiveness of melanoma treatment

Nursing home safety violations put residents at risk, report finds

Simple 'nudges' help improve heart patients' adherence to statins

Study looks at trends in added sugars consumption by infants and toddlers

Parents want psychosocial support during their children's hospitalizations

Limiting the spread of vaccine-related misinformation in social media

Alzheimer's Research UK urges all political parties to invest in dementia research

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