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Researchers build better AI algorithms to screen patients for diabetic eye disease

The ability of artificial intelligence (AI) to help screen patients for a common diabetic eye disease gains momentum with a new study published online today in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

14 Mar 2018

Scientists discover an alternative approach to pre-eclampsia screening

A new study has found that an alternative way of screening for pre-eclampsia in pregnant women may be more accurate than the current recommended method.

14 Mar 2018

The Importance of Fetal Fibronectin Testing for Women with Symptomatic Preterm Labor

Preterm birth is a dangerous condition that often goes undiagnosed. Fetal fibronectin (fFN) is a biomarker for preterm labor, but testing for fFN is widely underused. We explore this issue with Dr. Michael S. Ruma, a maternal-fetal specialist from the Perinatal Associates of New Mexico.

14 Mar 2018

Common genetic variation shown to increase Alzheimer’s risk

A recent study has found that African Americans with a common genetic variation are at an increased risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease.

14 Mar 2018

Smoking linked to increased risk of hearing loss

Smoking is associated with increased risk of hearing loss, according to a study of over 50,000 participants over 8 years in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, published by Oxford University Press.

14 Mar 2018

Lifting therapy caps proves a load off Medicare patients’ shoulders

Physical therapy helps Leon Beers, 73, get out of bed in the morning and maneuver around his home using his walker. Other treatment strengthens his throat muscles so that he can communicate and swallow food, said his sister Karen Morse. But in mid-January, his home health care agency told Morse it could no longer provide these services because he had used all his therapy benefits allowed under Medicare for the year.

14 Mar 2018

U.S. IDE study of THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH SF Catheter completes patient enrollment

Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies announced today that Biosense Webster, Inc., a worldwide leader in the diagnosis and treatment of heart arrhythmias, has completed patient enrollment in its U.S. Investigational Device Exemption study of the THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH SF Catheter.

14 Mar 2018

African Americans with thyroid gene variation more likely to develop Alzheimer's

African Americans with a common genetic variation are at increased risk for developing Alzheimer's disease, while European Americans with the same variation are not, according to a study led by researchers at Rush University Medical Center.

14 Mar 2018

Asthma APGAR tools effective for asthma management in primary care practices

A set of comprehensive asthma management tools helps decrease asthma-related visits to the emergency department, urgent care or hospital and improves patients' asthma control.

14 Mar 2018

Study reports evidence of 'systemic bias' in alcohol screening after TBI

"Has this patient been drinking?" It's a critical question for neurosurgical nurses and other professionals when evaluating patients with traumatic brain injury. But some groups of TBI patients are less likely to be screened for alcohol use, including women and younger patients, reports a study in the March issue of the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, official journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses.

13 Mar 2018

Researchers identify B immune cells that promote axon myelination in developing neurons

Neurons are specialized cells of the nervous system that communicate using electrical signals, which propagate down long, wire-like projections called axons. The conduction of these signals requires myelin, a fatty substance that surrounds axons in much the same way that plastic coating surrounds an electrical wire.

13 Mar 2018

Mindfulness meditation training helps prevent major depression

Among primary care patients with subthreshold depression, mindfulness meditation training reduces the incidence of major depression and improves depression symptoms.

13 Mar 2018

Young athletes commonly have bone marrow edema in lower spine, study shows

New research indicates that young recreational and elite athletes commonly accumulate excess fluid in the bone marrow around the joint that connects the spine with the pelvis.

13 Mar 2018

$Long-term PPI use not linked to increased hip fracture risk among Alzheimer's patients$

Long-term PPI use not linked to increased hip fracture risk among Alzheimer's patients

Long-term proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use does not increase the risk of hip fracture among persons with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

13 Mar 2018

Researchers create cardiomyocyte molds to mend broken hearts

2.5 billion. That's approximately the number of times the human heart beats in 70 years. And sometimes during the course of its unrelenting contractions and relaxations, the heart muscle can no longer bear the strain.

13 Mar 2018

Extracellular vesicles may serve as drug delivery vehicles for cancer treatment

Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting the cells through a sieve, according to an international team of researchers who used mouse autologous -- their own -- immune cells to create large amounts of fillable nanovesicles to deliver drugs to tumors in mice.

13 Mar 2018

Streamlined workflow could pave way for simple blood test to study cancer heterogeneity in liquid biopsy

Scientists reported the development of a robust and streamlined procedure for whole-genome copy number profiling of circulating tumor cells from a simple blood test.

13 Mar 2018

Perioperative beta blockers could increase deaths and strokes one year after surgery

During the 12 months after undergoing noncardiac surgery, patients with or at risk for heart disease who were treated with the beta blocker metoprolol for 30 days were less likely than patients who received a placebo to have a heart attack, but more likely to die or have a stroke, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific Session.

13 Mar 2018

NIH-funded researchers use CRISPR to rapidly find new genetic suspects behind ALS, FTD

NIH-funded researchers at Stanford University used the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 to rapidly identify genes in the human genome that might modify the severity of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia caused by mutations in a gene called C9orf72.

13 Mar 2018

Muscle wasting of old age and ways to stop it understood in new study

According to latest research, the muscle wasting that is associated with ageing has been attributed to loss of nerves. Researchers from the Manchester Metropolitan University, The University of Manchester, The University of Waterloo in Ontario, and Central Manchester University Hospitals NHW Foundation Trust published their study findings in the latest issue of The Journal of Physiology.

13 Mar 2018

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Researchers build better AI algorithms to screen patients for diabetic eye disease

Scientists discover an alternative approach to pre-eclampsia screening

The Importance of Fetal Fibronectin Testing for Women with Symptomatic Preterm Labor

Common genetic variation shown to increase Alzheimer’s risk

Smoking linked to increased risk of hearing loss

Lifting therapy caps proves a load off Medicare patients’ shoulders

U.S. IDE study of THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH SF Catheter completes patient enrollment

African Americans with thyroid gene variation more likely to develop Alzheimer's

Asthma APGAR tools effective for asthma management in primary care practices

Study reports evidence of 'systemic bias' in alcohol screening after TBI

Researchers identify B immune cells that promote axon myelination in developing neurons

Mindfulness meditation training helps prevent major depression

Young athletes commonly have bone marrow edema in lower spine, study shows

Long-term PPI use not linked to increased hip fracture risk among Alzheimer's patients

Researchers create cardiomyocyte molds to mend broken hearts

Extracellular vesicles may serve as drug delivery vehicles for cancer treatment

Streamlined workflow could pave way for simple blood test to study cancer heterogeneity in liquid biopsy

Perioperative beta blockers could increase deaths and strokes one year after surgery

NIH-funded researchers use CRISPR to rapidly find new genetic suspects behind ALS, FTD

Muscle wasting of old age and ways to stop it understood in new study

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