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Simple blood test to detect Alzheimer's disease may replace more invasive diagnostic methods

A simple blood test to diagnose Alzheimer's disease soon may replace more invasive and expensive screening methods such as spinal taps and brain scans.

22 Feb 2024

Link between gut microbiome and premature aging unveiled in chronic HIV patients

The Wistar Institute's associate professor Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, Ph.D., has demonstrated, with his lab and collaborators, a connection between viral damage to the gut and premature biological aging.

22 Feb 2024

Lawsuits claim South Carolina kids underwent unnecessary genital exams during abuse investigations

Three ongoing federal lawsuits filed in South Carolina accuse the state of forcing boys and girls to undergo traumatic genital exams during child abuse investigations, even when no allegations of sexual abuse have been raised.

22 Feb 2024

Health care workers push for their own confidential mental health treatment

States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate their licenses.

22 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

Novel treatment for polycythemia vera shows promise in clinical trial

A novel treatment for polycythemia vera, a potentially fatal blood cancer, demonstrated the ability to control overproduction of red blood cells, the hallmark of this malignancy and many of its debilitating symptoms in a multi-center clinical trial led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

21 Feb 2024

Scientists discover the Achilles heel of chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer

Women diagnosed with ovarian cancer may initially respond well to chemotherapy, but the majority of them will develop resistance to treatment and die from the disease.

21 Feb 2024

Prompt engineering boosts AI's adherence to medical guidelines, study shows

Study demonstrates the effectiveness of prompt engineering in enhancing large language models' adherence to clinical guidelines, with gpt-4-Web and ROT prompting showing the highest consistency with osteoarthritis guidelines.

21 Feb 2024

Scripps Research scientists develop an antibody that blocks lethal snake toxins

Scripps Research scientists have developed an antibody that can block the effects of lethal toxins in the venoms of a wide variety of snakes found throughout Africa, Asia and Australia.

21 Feb 2024

Targeting the Hippo signaling pathway to treat systemic sclerosis

Systemic sclerosis causes the skin to tighten and harden resulting in a potentially fatal autoimmune condition that is associated with lung fibrosis and kidney disease.

21 Feb 2024

Men with higher area of abdominal muscle have greater risk of cardiac trouble, study shows

Body composition - often expressed as the amount of fat in relation to muscle - is one of the standard predictors of cardiac health.

21 Feb 2024

Study highlights an immunological mechanism underlying Long COVID

SARS-CoV-2 triggers the production of the antiviral protein IFN-γ, which is associated with fatigue, muscle ache and depression.

21 Feb 2024

UMSOM and UMB to lead Maryland’s Abortion Clinical Care Training Program with $10.6 million grant

A $10.6 million training grant has been awarded to the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) to administer Maryland's Abortion Clinical Care Training Program.

21 Feb 2024

Air quality and residential greenness influence childhood cancer development

In a new study led by the University of Minnesota's Masonic Cancer Center and the U of M Medical School, researchers found that exposure to air pollution and vegetation may impact childhood cancer development.

21 Feb 2024

Intramolecular bivalent glues: A promising avenue for protein degradation

Living cells resemble highly organized small towns - in addition to energy production, transportation systems, and construction, cells also require efficient waste disposal.

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

Maternal mental illness: An under-recognized contributor to the mortality of new mothers

Painting a sobering picture, a research team led by Children's National Hospital culled years of data demonstrating that maternal mental illness is an under-recognized contributor to the death of new mothers.

21 Feb 2024

Breakthrough research on glioma progression wins BIAL Award in Biomedicine

A team of researchers from Germany, the USA, the UK, and Norway won the third edition of the BIAL Award in Biomedicine, a 300,000 Euro prize promoted by the BIAL Foundation, which seeks to recognize a work in biomedicine of exceptional quality and scientific relevance published in the last ten years.

21 Feb 2024

Study exposes food insecurity among graduate students and postdocs

A new study in JAMA Network Open reports on this phenomenon at three Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, campuses.

21 Feb 2024

Medicine News and Research

Simple blood test to detect Alzheimer's disease may replace more invasive diagnostic methods

Link between gut microbiome and premature aging unveiled in chronic HIV patients

Lawsuits claim South Carolina kids underwent unnecessary genital exams during abuse investigations

Health care workers push for their own confidential mental health treatment

Underutilized obesity treatments could transform patient health

Novel treatment for polycythemia vera shows promise in clinical trial

Scientists discover the Achilles heel of chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer

Prompt engineering boosts AI's adherence to medical guidelines, study shows

Scripps Research scientists develop an antibody that blocks lethal snake toxins

Targeting the Hippo signaling pathway to treat systemic sclerosis

Men with higher area of abdominal muscle have greater risk of cardiac trouble, study shows

Study highlights an immunological mechanism underlying Long COVID

UMSOM and UMB to lead Maryland’s Abortion Clinical Care Training Program with $10.6 million grant

Air quality and residential greenness influence childhood cancer development

Intramolecular bivalent glues: A promising avenue for protein degradation

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

Maternal mental illness: An under-recognized contributor to the mortality of new mothers

Breakthrough research on glioma progression wins BIAL Award in Biomedicine

Study exposes food insecurity among graduate students and postdocs

Everything there is to know about biosimilars eBook

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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