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Bayer Digital Health UKI introduces new technology to help type 2 diabetes patients manage kidney health

Bayer Digital Healthcare UKI has today announced the launch of its first digital patient support package, My Kidney Assistant, designed to provide type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients with the information and resources to help monitor and improve their kidney health.

6 Nov 2023

New exercise trial aims to improve quality of life for people with rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory disease that can cause severe pain and swelling of the joints.

6 Nov 2023

SSRIs show promise in easing post-COVID struggles, Dutch study reveals

Dutch study finds SSRIs significantly alleviate post-COVID syndrome symptoms, offering promising treatment avenues and shedding light on neurobiological mechanisms at play.

5 Nov 2023

State-by-state snapshot: Long-COVID's grip varies, with mental health in the crosshairs

Study shows 14% of Americans face long-COVID with variations across states and ethnicities, linking it to significant declines in physical and mental health.

5 Nov 2023

Avocado a day may keep diabetes at bay, suggests nutritional biomarker study

New research in The Journal of Nutrition links avocado consumption with lower diabetes risk, revealing specific metabolomic biomarkers that indicate potential for reduced fasting glucose and insulin levels.

5 Nov 2023

Life's hardships rewire the brain: Study pinpoints neural changes from adversity

Research reveals that adverse life experiences heighten amygdala response and diminish prefrontal cortex activity, indicating potential neural mechanisms of psychological vulnerability.

5 Nov 2023

Decoding long COVID, pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and management

Comprehensive review unravels the complexities of long COVID, spanning pathophysiology to management strategies, and underscores the need for targeted therapies and early diagnosis.

5 Nov 2023

Sotagliflozin provides kidney and heart benefits in patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, which are medications that lower blood sugar levels among other effects, provide kidney- and heart-related benefits to patients with and without diabetes.

3 Nov 2023

Albuminuria associated with subclinical coronary artery pathology in type 2 diabetes

Advances in non-invasive imaging have allowed clinicians to assess both the structure and function of coronary arteries.

3 Nov 2023

Using ripretinib and surgery to manage recurrent gastrointestinal stromal tumor

A new case report was published in Oncoscience (Volume 10) on September 20, 2023, entitled, "Multi-disciplinary management of recurrent gastrointestinal stromal tumor harboring KIT exon 11 mutation with the switch-control kinase inhibitor ripretinib and surgery."

3 Nov 2023

New pathway to combat cardiovascular disease identified

Research led by the University of Minnesota Medical School identified a new pathway to combat cardiovascular disease. The study was recently published in Nature Cardiovascular Research.

3 Nov 2023

Study finds ethnic disparities in access to early psychological interventions for psychosis in England

People experiencing a psychotic episode for the first time are less likely to receive early psychological interventions in England if they are from an ethnic minority background, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

3 Nov 2023

Tobacco smoking undermines anti-cancer safeguards by causing harmful DNA mutations

Scientists at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) have uncovered one way tobacco smoking causes cancer and makes it harder to treat by undermining the body's anti-cancer safeguards.

3 Nov 2023

Butterfly-inspired imaging sensor can detect cancer cells with high accuracy

There are many creatures on our planet with more advanced senses than humans. Turtles can sense Earth's magnetic field. Mantis shrimp can detect polarized light.

3 Nov 2023

Researchers pioneer a novel treatment for the most common autoimmune encephalitis

Researchers at DZNE and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have pioneered a novel treatment for the most common autoimmune encephalitis.

3 Nov 2023

AI model calculates percent necrosis in osteosarcoma patients with 99% accuracy

A research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine has created and trained a machine learning model to calculate percent necrosis (PN) - or, what percentage of a tumor is "dead" and no longer active - in patients with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer.

3 Nov 2023

Sparsentan may be a new treatment option for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a rare kidney disorder that affects children and adults, and can lead to kidney failure.

3 Nov 2023

New prediction model estimates risk of opioid relapse early in treatment

A newly developed prediction model may be able to calculate the risk of opioid relapse among individuals in the early stages of medication treatment - as early as three weeks into therapy.

3 Nov 2023

Pharmacist prescribing for hypertension could save billions and millions of lives, study finds

If pharmacists had a larger role in prescribing medications to control blood pressure, they could prevent more than 15 million heart attacks, nearly 8 million strokes and more than 4 million cases each of angina and heart failure in the U.S. over 30 years, according to a new Virginia Commonwealth University-led study.

3 Nov 2023

Rising temperatures pose looming threat: Extreme heat could elevate cardiovascular mortality for US residents by midcentury

Researchers estimate the change in the severe heat-related cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States.

3 Nov 2023

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Bayer Digital Health UKI introduces new technology to help type 2 diabetes patients manage kidney health

New exercise trial aims to improve quality of life for people with rheumatoid arthritis

SSRIs show promise in easing post-COVID struggles, Dutch study reveals

State-by-state snapshot: Long-COVID's grip varies, with mental health in the crosshairs

Avocado a day may keep diabetes at bay, suggests nutritional biomarker study

Life's hardships rewire the brain: Study pinpoints neural changes from adversity

Decoding long COVID, pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and management

Sotagliflozin provides kidney and heart benefits in patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease

Albuminuria associated with subclinical coronary artery pathology in type 2 diabetes

Using ripretinib and surgery to manage recurrent gastrointestinal stromal tumor

New pathway to combat cardiovascular disease identified

Study finds ethnic disparities in access to early psychological interventions for psychosis in England

Tobacco smoking undermines anti-cancer safeguards by causing harmful DNA mutations

Butterfly-inspired imaging sensor can detect cancer cells with high accuracy

Researchers pioneer a novel treatment for the most common autoimmune encephalitis

AI model calculates percent necrosis in osteosarcoma patients with 99% accuracy

Sparsentan may be a new treatment option for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

New prediction model estimates risk of opioid relapse early in treatment

Pharmacist prescribing for hypertension could save billions and millions of lives, study finds

Rising temperatures pose looming threat: Extreme heat could elevate cardiovascular mortality for US residents by midcentury

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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