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Mindfulness training can influence health via stress reduction pathways

Over the past decade, there have been many encouraging findings suggesting that mindfulness training can improve a broad range of mental and physical health problems. Yet, exactly how mindfulness positively impacts health is not clear.

15 Feb 2015

UT Southwestern researchers identify common signaling mechanism that controls immune system

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a common signaling mechanism to produce interferon - one of the main proteins used to signal the immune system when the body needs to defend itself against a virus, tumor, or other diseases.

15 Feb 2015

Young women report greater stress than men after heart attack

Young and middle-aged women experience more stress than their male counterparts, which could contribute to worse recovery from acute myocardial infarction (AMI), according to new findings by Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues.

15 Feb 2015

New antibody shows promise in increasing survival for patients suffering from influenza, pneumonia

Scientists from NTU Singapore, the world's No. 1 young university, have developed an antibody which boosts the survival chances for patients suffering from influenza and pneumonia.

14 Feb 2015

PAH survival unaffected by rheumatoid arthritis origin

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension have comparable survival to those with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, researchers report.

13 Feb 2015

Radionuclide angiography-assessed RVEF predicts PAH outcomes

Baseline right ventricular ejection fraction as evaluated by conventional planar equilibrium radionuclide angiography is significantly associated with outcomes in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, research suggests.

13 Feb 2015

Mechanistic subtypes of IPAH revealed

Researchers have provided evidence for distinct processes underlying vasodilator-responsive and nonresponsive idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.

13 Feb 2015

$Scleral imbrication shows promise in second surgery for refractory MHRD$

Scleral imbrication shows promise in second surgery for refractory MHRD

Combining vitrectomy and gas tamponade with sclera imbrication results in high retinal reattachment and macular hole closure rates among patients with refractory macular hole retinal detachment associated with high myopia, study findings indicate.

13 Feb 2015

Omega-3 could supplement anti-VEGF treatment in AMD

Pilot study findings suggest that taking omega-3 fatty acid supplements could increase the efficacy or reduce the needed frequency of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment in patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration.

13 Feb 2015

Choroidal thickness reduced in diabetic macular oedema patients

Patients with diabetic macular oedema have smaller choroidal thickness measurements in affected and unaffected eyes compared with healthy individuals, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography imaging results reveal.

13 Feb 2015

Retinal venular calibre predicts ranibizumab vision improvement

Retinal venular calibre may predict visual outcome in diabetic macular oedema patients given the anti-vascular endothelial growth factor monoclonal antibody ranibizumab, a pilot study suggests.

13 Feb 2015

Retinal function affected early in Type 1, 2 diabetes

Visual dysfunction manifests early in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, research shows, with functional impairment detected in patients with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy lacking clinical signs and symptoms of diabetic macular oedema.

13 Feb 2015

Adaptive optics find reflectivity differences between drusen types in AMD

Adaptive optics provide insight into the differences in reflectivity between medium–large drusen and reticular pseudodrusen in patients with age-related macular degeneration, researchers report.

13 Feb 2015

Meta-analysis gives intravitreal ranibizumab vascular adverse risk profile

Intravitreal ranibizumab treatment for age-related macular degeneration does not elevate the risk of mortality, suggests a meta-analysis published in Ophthalmology.

13 Feb 2015

VEGF inhibition does not regulate collateral vessels in retinal vein occlusion

The formation of collateral vessels does not appear to improve visual acuity in patients with branch or central retinal vein occlusion, and is unaffected by anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy, a retrospective analysis suggests.

13 Feb 2015

‘Earliest’ characteristics presaging drusen-associated atrophy identified

Researchers have used spectral-domain optical coherence tomography to identify specific pathological changes that precede the development of drusen-associated atrophy in patients with age-related macular degeneration.

13 Feb 2015

Creatine monohydrate disappoints in Parkinson’s disease

Creatine monohydrate fails to live up to its early promise in patients with Parkinson’s disease, show the results of the Long-term Study 1.

13 Feb 2015

Novel image-analysis technique improves breast cancer detection and diagnosis

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed an image-analysis technique that is designed to improve breast cancer detection and diagnosis.

13 Feb 2015

Declarative memory helps individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders compensate for dysfunction

Individuals with five neurodevelopmental disorders -- autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, dyslexia, and Specific Language Impairment -- appear to compensate for dysfunction by relying on a single powerful and nimble system in the brain known as declarative memory.

13 Feb 2015

Immune system exploits flu virus' dependence on host's machinery

Viruses are masters of outsourcing, entrusting their fundamental function - reproduction - to the host cells they infect. But it turns out this highly economical approach also creates vulnerability.

13 Feb 2015