Day August 14, 2024

In a new study in npj Digital Medicine, researchers synthesized data from 206,873 people across 47 studies, finding that digital health tools—like mobile apps, websites, and text messages—can significantly improve health and well-being by keeping you active, boosting steps, and…

Network analysis of metabolomic–microbiome correlations of eoCRC vs. aoCRC. Credit: npj Precision Oncology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41698-024-00647-1 A new Cleveland Clinic study has identified diet-derived molecules called metabolites as main drivers of young-onset colorectal cancer risk, especially those associated with red…

Credit: Vanessa Loring from Pexels Magnesium is a mineral that occurs naturally in many foods, such as nuts and seeds, beans and other legumes, whole grains, and leafy greens. We need adequate amounts of magnesium for healthy muscle, nerve, and…

Casey Harrell trying the BCI system for the first time. Credit: UC Regents A new brain-computer interface (BCI) developed at UC Davis Health translates brain signals into speech with up to 97% accuracy—the most accurate system of its kind. The…

Work-related stress caused by job strain and an imbalance between efforts applied vs. rewards received may increase the risk of developing atrial fibrillation, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Also known as AFib…

It’s cold and wet outside. As you get out of bed, you can feel it in your bones. Your right knee is flaring up again. That’ll make it harder for you to walk the dog or go to the gym.…

Top health concerns among people age 50 and older, showing the percentage who said they are “very concerned” about each topic for older adults in their community. Credit: University of Michigan More than half of the people who voted in…

The answer to curbing influenza could be right under our noses—or, more accurately, inside them. New research maps happenings in the nose during the course of influenza in exquisite detail, and could potentially lead to new targets and more effective…

Temporal trends of continuous net reclassification index (panel A), category-based net reclassification index (panel B), integrated discrimination improvement (panel C) and c-statistics of the proportional hazards models (panel D). Credit: The Lancet Regional Health – Europe (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Researchers…

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have found that adults with learning disabilities are more likely to die from cancer compared to the general population. The new study, led by the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory and published in the BMJ…

TET3 OE macrophages are abundant in human ovarian endometriotic lesions. (A) UMAP showing macrophage TET3 expression in Ctrl (n = 3) and ovarian endometriosis (O-Endo, n = 3), with bar graph displaying percentages of TET3 OE macrophages on the right.…

Genomic classification of ETP/ETP-like ALL. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07807-0 Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (St. Jude) and the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) today announced a significant paradigm shift in the understanding of…

Pictured are the cells that form clusters in the thymus with age. On the left, the thymus from a two-month-old mouse has few age-associated clusters (in blue). On the right, the thymus from a 24-month-old mouse shows many clusters. Researchers…

New research co-led by experts at Mass General Brigham found that brain scans can detect consciousness in some patients with brain injury who are unresponsive. In the study, 241 participants with severe brain injury who did not respond when given…

New Cleveland Clinic and Tufts University research shows that elevated levels of the gut microbiome trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) pathway led to a higher risk of heart failure independent of other risk factors, according to a study of two large National…

Babies recognize pretense and around half of children can pretend themselves by 12 months, new research has found. The study, led by the University of Bristol, shows for the first time how children’s awareness and grasp of pretense in its…

The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures to prevent contagion resulted in extensive disruptions in children’s and adolescents’ everyday lives. A new study in Child Development from the Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark; University of California, Riverside; and University of…

If it’s ever felt like everything in your body is breaking down at once, that might not be your imagination. A new Stanford Medicine study shows that many of our molecules and microorganisms dramatically rise or fall in number during…

The potential sale of Palmetto General, North Shore Medical Center and other Florida hospitals has been delayed. Steward Health Care System has once again pushed back the deadline and sale hearings for all of its Florida hospitals, including in Miami-Dade…

One in six dairy products in U.S. retail stores contained signs of inactive bird flu virus this summer, regulators said, slightly lower than the numbers seen in a different survey when the pathogen was first found in the nation’s dairy…

As schools are getting ready for students to return, it’s important for parents to think about their children’s back-to-school vaccination checklist. Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, who specializes in pediatric infectious diseases at Mayo Clinic’s Children’s Center, says that parents should check…

18F-Pretomanid exposure in brain and lung tissues of a patient with active tuberculosis. Credit: Sanjay Jain Lab In a preliminary study with a small number of humans, rabbits and mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center say they have developed…

With more than 24 million people globally living with dementia without a cure in sight, there is a lot of focus on ways to prevent and delay cognitive impairment. A new study suggests that severe menopause symptoms such as hot…

U.S. military veterans face unique stressors, such as combat, and experience various health conditions, like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), that can negatively affect multiple aspects of functioning. For more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been…

Herpes Zoster and Multivariable-Adjusted Relative Risk of 3 Unit Increment in Subjective Cognitive Decline in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), the Nurses’ Health Study II (NHS II), and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS). Credit: Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy (2024).…

In research reported in Nature Genetics, Professor Sir Mark Caulfield with Dr. Sinan Shi and Professor Simon Myers, both from Statistics at the University of Oxford, used records from over 78,000 individuals in the Genomics England (GEL) dataset with whole…

For rural patients, getting cancer treatment close to home has always been difficult. But in recent years, chemotherapy deserts have expanded across the United States, with 382 rural hospitals halting services from 2014 to 2022, according to a report published…

by Bernard J. Wolfson, KFF Health News A bill pending in California’s legislature to ratchet up oversight of private equity investments in health care is receiving enthusiastic backing from consumer advocates, labor unions and the California Medical Association, but drawing…

A walk-in clinic designed to support people with mental health needs will open September 2024 on North Broad Street. Clinicians at the clinic will provide assistance with medications, anxiety and depression, and substance use, among other issues, for patients who…

Parvovirus B19, a seasonal respiratory virus that subsided during the pandemic, is making a comeback, U.S. health officials warned Tuesday. In a health alert issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency said it has received…

Family nurse practitioner Carol Ramsubhag-Carela prepares a syringe with the Mpox vaccine before inoculating a patient at a vaccinations site on, Aug. 30, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Credit: AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File The World Health Organization…

Credit: Cell Metabolism (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Fat cells come in three colors: white, brown, and beige. White fat cells store fat in our body as an energy reserve. We need these cells, but having too many creates health problems. Brown…

Cesarean section recipients are usually given prophylactic antibiotics just before the procedure to prevent later infections at the surgical site. But there have been concerns about whether these antibiotics may have a negative impact on newborns and their microbiomes if…

A stylized icon of the mouse and human connection created by JAX Creative. Credit: The Jackson Laboratory Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have unveiled a new approach to drug discovery that could revolutionize how we understand and treat diseases.…

The discovery of a new regulator affecting immune cells could lead to new treatments to reduce inflammation in diseases including arthritis and severe COVID 19. A large research collaboration, led by the University of Exeter’s MRC Center for Medical Mycology,…

Naloxone deliver device. Credit: Hen-Wei Huang In 2023, more than 100,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses. The most effective way to save someone who has overdosed is to administer a drug called naloxone, but a first responder or bystander can’t…

Cedars-Sinai neurologist Chrystal Reed, MD, Ph.D., with a patient in the epilepsy monitoring unit. Credit: Cedars-Sinai. The coordinated activity of brain cells, like birds flying in formation, helps us behave intelligently in new situations, according to a study led by…

Clinical geneticists listen to patients describe their conditions as part of making diagnoses. While AI tools can interpret textbook-like medical questions, they struggle to analyze this same information when provided directly by patients. Credit: Ernesto del Aguila III, National Human…

Axial CT image with i.v. contrast. Macrocystic adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Credit: public domain Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered a way to get rid of pancreatic cancer in mice by putting them on a high fat, or…

In the Drosophila brain, dormant neural stem cells with protrusions rich in actin filaments. Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a novel pathway…