Day August 8, 2024

“I saw everything,” says 74-year-old Harry Stackhouse from Illinois, who was awake during his recent kidney transplant. He felt no pain as he chatted with doctors, examined the donor organ, and watched the surgical team staple him back up. Stackhouse…

Toe and fingernails are an extension of your skin, like hair. They are formed of keratin, a tough material that grows in the direction of your fingertip into a hard plate. The cuticle (the strip of skin covering the junction…

Julie Brefczynski-Lewis (left), a research assistant professor in the WVU School Medicine, and students Colson Glover (center) and Nanda K. Siva conduct a walking PET scan demonstration at WVU Health Sciences. Credit: (WVU /Davidson Chan) An upright neuroimaging device developed…

For individuals newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), both short and long sleep duration are associated with microvascular disease, according to a study scheduled to be presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study…

Photo of a water-powered, electronics-free dressing (WPED) for electrical stimulation of wounds. Credit: Rajaram Kaveti Researchers have developed an inexpensive bandage that uses an electric field to promote healing in chronic wounds. In animal testing, wounds that were treated with…

One in four Australians report feeling lonely, according to our new report released this week from our research collaboration. The data builds on a large study we conducted last year on social connection. Together, the data show that once someone…

Pediatric heart transplant (HT) wait-list mortality has declined, but the 2016 pediatric HT allocation policy revisions do not appear to be the reason, according to a study published in the Aug 13 issue of the Journal of the American College…

It’s no secret old age can rob us of our strength. This age-related muscle wastage—known as sarcopenia—can eventually lead to more falls, more hospital stays, difficulty with walking or toileting and less independence. Eventually, it can mean needing residential aged…

The picnic food choices affect the microbiome. Credit: ISDS—TU Graz Researchers at TU Graz have published a video game about the health effects of the microbiome and what impact our lifestyle has on it. Countless microorganisms live on and in…

Credit: Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels “I couldn’t stop being sick. My side and my back were hurting and I just felt like my body was totally shutting down.” That’s how one woman described the side effects of weight loss injections…

Simulations comparing different electrode array configurations. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-65337-1 Elon Musk recently pronounced that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics,…

ROC curve comparing classical clinical variables vs. adding ACR o baseline glucose in the prediction of poor stroke outcome and mortality. Model: Rankin score > 1, age, gender, diabetes, dyslipidemia, revascularization treatment, history Rankin, baseline NIHSS. Credit: Cardiovascular Diabetology (2024).…

Toxoplasma gondii. Credit: Wikipedia In the lead up to National Science Week 10 to 18 August 2024, the Food Safety Information Council is warning Australians about the risk of parasites with increasing numbers of toxoplasmosis and cryptosporidiosis infections. The Council’s…

Individuals with Down syndrome show variegated overexpression of genes encoded on chromosome 21. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49781-1 A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic Institute) at the…

A significant breakthrough in the understanding of sleep mechanism opens new promise for treating sleep disorders and associated neuropsychiatric conditions: Scientists have pinpointed the melatonin receptor MT1 as a crucial regulator of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. REM sleep is…

An artificial intelligence (AI) model has strong performance for accurately identifying myopia, strabismus, and ptosis using mobile photographs, according to a study published online Aug 6 in JAMA Network Open. Qin Shu, M.D., from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of…

For pediatric patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a pharmacogenomics-based 10 single nucleotide polymorphism cytarabine (Ara-C) score (ACS10) can be used to tailor induction regimens, yielding improved outcomes, according to a study published online July 30 in Clinical Cancer Research.…

Descriptive characteristics of adults with cerebral palsy. Credit: JAMA Neurology (2024). DOI: 10.1001 Pain management is an important component of caring for adults with cerebral palsy. However, it’s the least understood comorbidity in the adult cerebral palsy population. A study…

This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID…

The World Health Organization’s chief announced Wednesday he was urgently convening an expert committee to advise on whether the growing mpox outbreak in Africa should be declared an international emergency. Since last September, cases have surged in the Democratic Republic…

Compared to untreated cells (left image), IFN?-treatment (right image) leads to twice as many cells to reactivate the X-chromosome on day seven of iPSC reprogramming. The blue color marks the nucleus of each cell and the red color indicates pluripotent…

A rendering of one of the vaccine nanoparticles developed by the researchers. The teal is the basic structure of the nanoparticle, while the red and green sections represent red compounds added to the nanoparticle to create a more customized immune…

Living less than about one-third of a mile from pesticide use prior to conception and during early pregnancy could increase the risk of stillbirths, according to new research led by researchers at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public…

A new study from UC Davis Health could help to increase the supply of donor kidneys. Researchers have found that transplant patients who receive kidneys infected with the parasite toxoplasma have virtually the same outcomes as those who receive toxoplasma-negative…

Cancer cell during cell division. Credit: National Institutes of Health A new editorial paper titled “How to deal with runaway metastatic disease?” has been published in Oncotarget. In this new editorial, Justine Paris and Guilhem Bousquet from Université Paris Cité,…

Columbia University’s Division of Ethics Chief Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Ph.D., is lead author of a new target article in The American Journal of Bioethics, titled “Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Bioethics: Recommendations from the Association of Bioethics Program Directors…

A cardiovascular health construct based on the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 but enhanced with a ninth psychological health metric strongly predicts all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, according to a new study at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.…

Telehealth has been touted as one solution to New Zealand’s ongoing health-care crisis, which is particularly stark in rural regions. But moving health services online can have a number of unintended consequences that can impact the well-being of patients and…

Immunohistochemistry for alpha-synuclein showing positive staining (brown) of an intraneural Lewy-body in the Substantia nigra in Parkinson’s disease. Credit: Wikipedia There’s some good news for people with Parkinson’s disease: The risk of developing dementia may be lower than previously thought,…

The number of abortions in the United States has actually grown since the Supreme Court allowed states to enact strict bans on the procedure, according to a study released Wednesday. Survey results reported by the Society of Family Planning (SFP),…