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Important opportunity to act on gaps and challenges in seasonal influenza outbreaks

Today's subcommittee hearing on U.S. preparedness and responses for the 2019-2020 flu season offers an important opportunity to examine and act on gaps and challenges exacerbating the public health threats of seasonal influenza outbreaks.

5 Dec 2019

Sight deprivation alters neuronal networks, shifts mice's sensitivity to different frequencies

Scientists have known that depriving adult mice of vision can increase the sensitivity of individual neurons in the part of the brain devoted to hearing.

4 Dec 2019

New model can help study the mechanisms of bone metastasis, tumor immune response

The Research Team reports the establishment of B6Ca P, an allograft tumor line from a Hi-Myc transgenic mouse that had been backcrossed onto C57BL/6J background.

4 Dec 2019

New 'virtual biopsy' allows doctors to definitively diagnose cysts in the pancreas

Research from doctors at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center finds a new "virtual biopsy" allows them to definitively diagnose cysts in the pancreas with unprecedented accuracy. This means they can eliminate precancerous cysts and potentially save lives.

4 Dec 2019

Molecular makeup of abnormal proteins in brain diseases shows structural diversity

Parkinson's and multisystem atrophy - both of them neurodegenerative diseases - are associated with the accumulation of alpha-synuclein proteins in the brain.

4 Dec 2019

New program receives national recognition for treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

When Kayla Green was first diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, she felt vindicated.

4 Dec 2019

Telemedicine may be as effective as in-person visit for people with many neurologic disorders

For people with many neurologic disorders, seeing the neurologist by video may be as effective as an in-person visit, according to a review of the evidence conducted by the American Academy of Neurology

4 Dec 2019

ADDF announces new awards through its Diagnostics Accelerator initiative

The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation announced six new investments totaling $6 million through its Diagnostics Accelerator initiative.

4 Dec 2019

Warmer temperatures can lead to higher concentrations of arsenic in rice grains

People around the world consume rice in their daily diets. But in addition to its nutrient and caloric content, rice can contain small amounts of arsenic, which in large doses is a toxin linked to multiple health conditions and dietary-related cancers.

4 Dec 2019

Proposed Ohio legislation may interfere with providing medically optimal care for women

The American College of Physicians fears that recent legislation introduced in the Ohio state legislature that orders physicians to re-implant ectopic pregnancies, which is clinically not possible, will threaten patient health and subject physicians to criminal prosecution for providing standard of care, reproductive health care services.

4 Dec 2019

Humans' ability to process alcohol may have saved our ancestors from extinction

The ability to process alcohol may have saved humanity's ancestors from extinction, a new book suggests.

4 Dec 2019

Children with food allergies are seen sooner when treated by community pediatricians

Children with food allergies are seen 10 months sooner and have fewer allergic reactions when treated by a pediatrician in their own community, a new study shows.

4 Dec 2019

Preterm birth could be spotted early by ultrasound

A new presentation at the 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego will report on ultrasound as used in pregnancy, especially with respect to the comparison of two sets of data derived from two separate ultrasound techniques to evaluate cervical changes. The researchers claim that both ultrasound techniques help to estimate the attenuation coefficient of human cervical tissue, and to thus assess changes in it, providing a better picture of the true risk for preterm birth thereby.

4 Dec 2019

Epigenomic techniques used to fight disease

Humans differ from one another in many ways, including how they react to disease, because of their DNA blueprint, as well as the difference in the environments they face. These factors combine to make each person unique. Now a new study published in the journal Nature Protocols reports the development of a promising technology to uncover the process by which the body fights diseases in different ways.

4 Dec 2019

Transitional T cells could help improve cancer immunotherapy

In chronic viral infections and cancer, T cell dysfunction is sure to be observed. A new study to be published in the journal Immunity shows that before these cells are completely exhausted, there is a transitory stage in which some cells are present with features that are characteristic of neither the stem-like T cells nor the mature but exhausted T cells.

4 Dec 2019

New method for discovering potential cancer-treating compounds

A new study published in the journal Cell Reports reports a novel method by which antitumor drugs that focus on reawakening exhausted immune cells called cytotoxic T cells against cancer can be quickly identified. This could help treat a large subset of cancers that thrive because of their ability to suppress antitumor activity in T cells.

4 Dec 2019

Gabapentin – a drug for nerve pain could help patients with spinal injury finds study

A preclinical study with mice has shown that Gabapentin, a drug that is commonly used in nerve pain could be useful for patients with spinal cord injury. Use of the drug showed improvement in upper limb function among the mice models of spinal cord injury, wrote the researchers. The study titled, “Gabapentinoid treatment promotes corticospinal plasticity and regeneration following murine spinal cord injury,” was published this week in the latest issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

4 Dec 2019

Sleep does not improve memory in eyewitness identifications

A new study from British researchers has revealed that sleep does not improve memory in an eyewitness. The study titled, “The impact of sleep on eyewitness identifications,” was published in the latest issue of the journal Royal Society Open Science on the 4th of December 2019.

4 Dec 2019

Brits betting online, eating unhealthily and drinking too much alcohol

The National Health Service (NHS) England has released its latest survey and reveals that millions of people in England are eating unhealthy foods, drinking too much alcohol, are overweight, and turned to online gambling.

4 Dec 2019

Scientists create artificial neurons that help cure chronic diseases

Artificial brain cells could now be implanted in the brain to repair the damage caused by chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, thanks to a team of scientists who created bionic neurons that work like the real thing.

4 Dec 2019

Medical News

Important opportunity to act on gaps and challenges in seasonal influenza outbreaks

Sight deprivation alters neuronal networks, shifts mice's sensitivity to different frequencies

New model can help study the mechanisms of bone metastasis, tumor immune response

New 'virtual biopsy' allows doctors to definitively diagnose cysts in the pancreas

Molecular makeup of abnormal proteins in brain diseases shows structural diversity

New program receives national recognition for treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Telemedicine may be as effective as in-person visit for people with many neurologic disorders

ADDF announces new awards through its Diagnostics Accelerator initiative

Warmer temperatures can lead to higher concentrations of arsenic in rice grains

Proposed Ohio legislation may interfere with providing medically optimal care for women

Humans' ability to process alcohol may have saved our ancestors from extinction

Children with food allergies are seen sooner when treated by community pediatricians

Preterm birth could be spotted early by ultrasound

Epigenomic techniques used to fight disease

Transitional T cells could help improve cancer immunotherapy

New method for discovering potential cancer-treating compounds

Gabapentin – a drug for nerve pain could help patients with spinal injury finds study

Sleep does not improve memory in eyewitness identifications

Brits betting online, eating unhealthily and drinking too much alcohol

Scientists create artificial neurons that help cure chronic diseases

Directed enzyme evolution and the Nobel Prize: Making enzymes evolve in the lab

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

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