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Efficacy of acupuncture in improving sleep quality for Parkinson's patients

Whether acupuncture improves sleep quality in Parkinson's patients.

1 Jul 2024

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': SCOTUS ruling strips power from federal health agencies

In what will certainly be remembered as a landmark decision, the Supreme Court's conservative majority this week overruled a 40-year-old legal precedent that required judges in most cases to yield to the expertise of federal agencies.

28 Jun 2024

Remote strategy-based intervention shows promise for individuals with memory impairments caused by MS

A pilot study shows promise for a new treatment option for individuals with memory impairments caused by multiple sclerosis (MS).

28 Jun 2024

Study links low teenage mental ability to early stroke

A lower level of mental ability during the teenage years may be linked to as much as a tripling in the risk of having a stroke before the age of 50, finds research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

28 Jun 2024

Methylphenidate may enhance oculomotor function in individuals with multiple sclerosis

A pilot study conducted by Kessler Foundation researchers has shown promising results in the use of methylphenidate to enhance oculomotor function in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS).

26 Jun 2024

WHO report highlights global burden of alcohol and drug-related deaths

A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that 2.6 million deaths per year were attributable to alcohol consumption, accounting for 4.7% of all deaths, and 0.6 million deaths to psychoactive drug use.

25 Jun 2024

New research challenges current practices for premature babies

Giving very premature babies high concentrations of oxygen soon after birth may reduce the risk of death by 50 percent, compared to lower levels of oxygen says new research led by University of Sydney researchers.

25 Jun 2024

Chronic loneliness linked to increased stroke risk in older adults

Chronic loneliness may significantly raise older adults' risk of stroke, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

24 Jun 2024

Family history of mental health disorders linked to developmental outcomes in siblings of autistic children

Researchers studied the impact of family history of neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders on developmental outcomes in siblings of children with autism, highlighting significant associations with various phenotypic traits.

24 Jun 2024

Walking and education intervention significantly reduces recurrence of low back pain

Researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine the clinical efficacy and cost-efficiency of the WalkBack personalized, walking, and educational intervention program in preventing lower backache recurrence among Australians.

24 Jun 2024

NAA's National Summit plans to address the neglect of Australians living with neurological conditions

Neurological conditions are on the rise in Australia and worldwide, yet despite being recognized as one of the nation's top disease burdens, neurological conditions remain under-recognized and underfunded.

22 Jun 2024

Anakinra shows promise in reducing symptoms in patients with Sanfilippo syndrome

As a neurodegenerative disease characterized by childhood onset dementia, Sanfilippo syndrome causes immense suffering in many ways, including pain, loss of speech, extreme agitation, and distress, gastrointestinal symptoms, and profound sleep disturbance.

21 Jun 2024

Super Bowl parade shooting survivors await promised donations while bills pile up

Abigail Arellano keeps her son Samuel's medical bills in a blue folder in a cabinet above the microwave. Even now, four months after the 11-year-old was shot at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, the bills keep coming.

21 Jun 2024

Innovative CAR T cell therapy shows promise for relapsed CIDP patients

This study is led by Professor Junnian Zheng and Ming Shi from the Cancer Institute of Xuzhou Medical University, together with the team of Professor Guiyun Cui and Wei Zhang from the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University.

20 Jun 2024

Adopting fully effective fortification with folic acid can help prevent birth defects

The UK government's failure to fortify all flour and rice with the vitamin folic acid "will result in more deaths and birth defects every year that could have been prevented," argues Professor Sir Nicholas Wald in The BMJ today.

20 Jun 2024

Walking reduces recurrence of low back pain, study finds

Adults with a history of low back pain went nearly twice as long without a recurrence of their back pain if they walked regularly, a world-first study has found.

20 Jun 2024

Impact of family history on developmental outcomes in siblings of children with autism

Children who have an older sibling with autism spectrum disorder (autism) are at greater risk of developmental vulnerabilities if they also have other relatives with neurodevelopmental or psychiatric conditions, according to a new study from the Yale Child Study Center.

19 Jun 2024

Federal nutrition initiative can offer infant feeding support and counseling to disabled parents

Infant feeding, involving breastfeeding, formula feeding, and the introduction of solid foods, is crucial for parenting.

19 Jun 2024

AI technology offers hope for faster stroke detection

Strokes, which affect millions of people globally, occur when the blood supply to part of the brain is interrupted or reduced, which prevent brain tissue from getting oxygen and nutrients. A few minutes of delay can result in permanent damage to the brain cells.

18 Jun 2024

Type 1 diabetes burden shifts: Higher prevalence but lower death rates in elderly

The regional, national, and global inequalities, trends, and burden of juvenile-onset type 1 Diabetes among elders between 1990 and 2019.

17 Jun 2024

Disability News and Research

Efficacy of acupuncture in improving sleep quality for Parkinson's patients

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': SCOTUS ruling strips power from federal health agencies

Remote strategy-based intervention shows promise for individuals with memory impairments caused by MS

Study links low teenage mental ability to early stroke

Methylphenidate may enhance oculomotor function in individuals with multiple sclerosis

WHO report highlights global burden of alcohol and drug-related deaths

New research challenges current practices for premature babies

Chronic loneliness linked to increased stroke risk in older adults

Family history of mental health disorders linked to developmental outcomes in siblings of autistic children

Walking and education intervention significantly reduces recurrence of low back pain

NAA's National Summit plans to address the neglect of Australians living with neurological conditions

Anakinra shows promise in reducing symptoms in patients with Sanfilippo syndrome

Super Bowl parade shooting survivors await promised donations while bills pile up

Innovative CAR T cell therapy shows promise for relapsed CIDP patients

Adopting fully effective fortification with folic acid can help prevent birth defects

Walking reduces recurrence of low back pain, study finds

Impact of family history on developmental outcomes in siblings of children with autism

Federal nutrition initiative can offer infant feeding support and counseling to disabled parents

AI technology offers hope for faster stroke detection

Type 1 diabetes burden shifts: Higher prevalence but lower death rates in elderly

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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