Day August 16, 2024

A child at the dinner table talks about trouble at school or an argument with a friend, but parents aren’t listening: They’re checking their smartphones instead. It’s a scenario that plays out millions of times per day across America, and…

Smart wearables and advanced datan analysis by researchers could help bring relief to millions affected by sleep disorders. Clare Williams was in her early 30s when she received an unexpected diagnosis: obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the most common sleep-related breathing…

A newly compiled list of foods and drinks commonly consumed in the United States hints at why many adults unknowingly overdo it on saturated fat and added sugar in their daily diet, a new study suggests. Beyond the biggest sources…

U.S. teens and young adults who vape are much more likely to start smoking cigarettes or to begin using cannabis or other drugs, a University of Michigan study, appearing in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, found. Most vaping studies…

by Carla K. Johnson Actor Matthew Perry participates in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the mini-series “The Kennedys After Camelot” in New York on March 30, 2017. Credit: Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File The investigation into the death of…

The White House announced a deal to lower costs of 10 key medicines selected for Medicare price negotiations, cutting their list prices by between 38 percent and 79 percent. Major pharmaceutical companies lashed out following a landmark deal unveiled Thursday…

Emboldened by success in its initial efforts to cut dietary salt intake by Americans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced Phase II of the endeavor. U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend that a person consume no more than 2,300…

While everyone knows that a good night’s sleep restores energy, a new Cornell University study finds it resets another vital function: memory. Learning or experiencing new things activates neurons in the hippocampus, a region of the brain vital for memory.…

Generation of in-vivo talazoparib (PARPi)-response-and-progression Brca1-def and Bard1-def orthotopic models. Credit: EMBO Molecular Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44321-024-00094-2 PARP inhibitors have improved survival of breast cancer patients with BRCA1/2 mutations, but the drugs eventually stop working and the cancer returns. A…

Getting enough high-quality sleep on a consistent basis is vital for human health and well-being, particularly for children. That can be a tall order as summer temperatures climb, with nights providing little relief from the heat. “Summer heat can make…

The Biden administration said Thursday that it has signed deals with drug companies that will lower the prices on 10 of the most popular and expensive drugs used by American seniors. Taxpayers should save $6 billion because of the new…

Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic said Friday it was seeking European approval to use its mpox vaccine in children aged 12 to 17, after the WHO declared the current virus surge a global public health emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO)…

Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich from Pexels Gaining even a small amount of weight may lead to adverse metabolic responses in young South Asian men according to new research. The study—led by the University of Glasgow and published in Nature Metabolism—may shed…

Credit: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2024). DOI: 10.3389 Scientists from Northwestern Medicine and the School of Medicine at CES University and CES Clinic in Colombia have determined that more than 60% of people who contracted COVID-19 have neurological symptoms that…

Michael Dennis, left, 25, a second-year Campbell Medical Student, and Genesis Garcia, right, 22, an NC FIELD intern, draw blood from Sabino Reyes, a farmworker, at a mobile health clinic organized by NC FIELD outside María, Reina de las Américas…

Germany’s BioNTech and US pharma giant Pfizer said Friday they had suffered a setback in a late-stage trial of their combined mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 and influenza. In a phase 3 trial, the combo vaccine showed a stronger immune response…

Epipen was the only option for emergency treatment of allergic reactions, but the FDA just approved a new nasal spray that serves the same purpose. Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Millions of Americans who have allergies have really had only one…

Health authorities warned Europe Friday to get ready for more cases of a deadly strain of mpox that has killed hundreds of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. China said it would screen travelers for the disease after the…

Nigeria has recorded 39 cases of mpox since the beginning of the year, a health official said as concern mounts over the global spread of the disease. The cases were across the country and have not been fatal, according to…

Cases, deaths, and DALYs averted compared with no vaccination scenario, by countries, regions, and time period (undiscounted). Credit: The Lancet Global Health (2024). DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00232-8 Utilizing pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) could save almost 700,000 children’s lives between the time of…

Overview of the study design and analytic approaches. Credit: Nature Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03164-7 Researchers have developed a machine learning-powered blood test that analyzes more than 200 proteins to gauge a person’s rate of biological aging, which the team says…

Dr Ben Riley, Flinders University psychological therapy researcher and clinician with the State Gambling Therapy Service. Credit: Flinders University Like driving a car, gamblers should always prepare for a rocky ride—even if they believe they don’t have a problem, Flinders…

Credit: Matthias Zomer from Pexels The monetary value of the substantial time that informal caregivers in Singapore spend looking after seniors aged 75 years and above, comes up to around S$1.28 billion annually—equivalent to about 11% of the government’s expenditure…

When Wendy Beaudoin accepted a job as the nurse practitioner for pediatric neurosurgery and neuro oncology at the Stollery Children’s Hospital, she had no idea how thoroughly her personal and professional lives would intertwine. That very same day, she learned…

A study by Michigan State University found that non-deceptive placebos, or placebos given to people fully knowing they are placebos, effectively manage stress—even when the placebos are administered remotely. Researchers recruited participants experiencing prolonged stress from the COVID-19 pandemic for…

As syphilis cases surge throughout the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first diagnostic at-home test to spot the bacterial disease. “This is the first at-home, over-the-counter test to detect Treponema pallidum [syphilis] antibodies…

Individuals are less likely to have type 1 diabetes if their mother has the condition than if their father is affected, according to a study scheduled to be presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study…

New research offers hope in reducing the number of drowning incidents worldwide, after putting the latest safety guidance to the test. A team at the University of Portsmouth’s Extreme Environments Laboratory (EEL) have confirmed the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI)…

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and Birkbeck, University of London, has worked with members of the neurodivergent community to establish what they would like to see prioritized in future research…

Steps enabling clinical decision making based on NGS data. Credit: Annals of Oncology (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Personalized medicine is transforming cancer treatment by tailoring therapies to the genomic profile of each tumor. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is key to this approach,…

The framework of host immunological pathways and their relation to programmed cell death. Apoptosis is related to host anti-virus eradicable TH?? immunity. Autophagy is related to host anti-virus tolerable TH3 immunity. Pyroptosis is related to host anti-intracellular micro-organism eradicable TH1…

The treatment of patients with severe COVID-19 following SARS-CoV-2 infection remains difficult. Severe inflammatory reactions and thrombotic complications (blood clots) in particular can be life-threatening. Classic anticoagulants such as heparin often cannot prevent these complications. An evaluation of literature data…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Current Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Lip-read words can be decoded from the brain’s auditory regions similarly to heard speech, according to a new University of Michigan report that looked at how vision supports verbal perception. Researchers used…

Cleaning shared medical equipment at least once a day—even with a disinfectant wipe—can significantly reduce infections in hospitals and possibly save lives, new research shows. The finding is based on results from the CLEEN study, a randomized control trial led…

Representative membraneless chambers in eukaryotic cells. Present in the nucleus are mainly gems, cajal body, PML body, nuclear speckles, PcG body, amyloid bodies, and gems. Membraneless compartments, including emergency granules, are located outside the nucleus. Credit: MedComm (2024). DOI: 10.1002…

A recent study of the psychological outcomes of over 57,470 patients with rare cancers showed that they have higher risk of developing mental health issues compared to patients with common cancers. The systematic review and meta-analysis of these patient cases,…

Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, stained and magnified 63 times, revealing fine details of the dendritic spines. Credit: Hatten Lab More than 70 genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a developmental condition in which differences in the…

This undated 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…

Research led by Amsterdam UMC, across more than five years and 1,100 patients has demonstrated a strategy for reducing inappropriate IV use by a third, an effect that was sustained across the five-year period. This should also lead to a…

Iron deficiency (ID) is common in an American statewide health system, and the time to resolution is prolonged, according to a study published online Aug. 15 in Blood Advances. Jacob C. Cogan, M.D., from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis,…