Day September 5, 2024

An estimated one in eight men at some point will get prostate cancer. Those statistics are expected to surge in the next 15 years partly due to the Baby Boomer generation reaching the age when prostate cancer is most common.…

Big box stores often hand out complimentary food items to customers, and these foods can vary in terms of healthfulness. Would getting a complimentary healthy food item versus an unhealthy food item influence subsequent purchases? In a new study published…

You never have to look hard to find recent reports of fatal vehicle crashes on UK roads. After devastating events such as a crash in West Yorkshire in July 2024, where four adults and two children were killed, media reports…

I cringed recently while driving to the clinic where I specialize in geriatric medicine when I heard a young radio announcer refer to old people as “wiggy,” a pejorative for wacky. As a doctor who has extensively researched aging and…

A major new review of evidence by a team of scientists, including a University of Massachusetts Amherst public health researcher, has identified the three best strategies for quitting smoking: Varenicline—a prescription drug sold under the brand names Chantix and Champix,…

Credit: eneuro (2024). DOI: 10.1523 For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: What is the physical basis of consciousness in the brain? Most researchers favor classical models, based on classical physics, while a…

“I am a regular boy who loves sports, especially golf”, says Vincent when he speaks to leading international uterus transplantation researchers in a conference in Gothenburg, between his parents Malin and Claes. Vincent was the first child in the world…

Credit: Laura Tiitto/public domain Hair loss will affect everyone at some point in their life. But, despite its prevalence, treating baldness is big business. In Europe, for example, there was a 240% increase in interest in hair transplant surgeries between…

Following acute kidney injury, damaged cells interact within disease-promoting microenvironments, a process that may lead to chronic kidney disease. Credit: Michal Polonsky A study published in Nature Communications provides new insight into how damaged cells interact within disease-promoting microenvironments following…

Too many U.S. seniors are skipping their prescription meds due to cost, and the problem is most acute among the poor and chronically ill, new data shows. The new study was published Sept. 5 in National Health Statistics Reports. Almost…

When pediatrician Eric Ball opened a refrigerator full of childhood vaccines, all the expected shots were there—DTaP, polio, pneumococcal vaccine—except one. “This is where we usually store our COVID vaccines, but we don’t have any right now because they all…

The maker of the ADHD drug Vyvanse has been given approval by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to make more of the medication as a shortage of the critical drugs continues. Following a request from the U.S. Food and Drug…

The humanized monoclonal antibody directed against the pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) ligand, Lu AG09222, is better than placebo for reducing migraine frequency over four weeks, according to a study published in the Sept. 5 issue of the New England…

An Alabama man died last month when a surgeon in Florida mistakenly removed his liver instead of his spleen during an emergency procedure, his family said. William Bryan, 70, and his wife Beverly, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, were visiting their…

Parents have received reassurance that their overwhelming stress surrounding childrearing is not going unnoticed: In the United States, the surgeon general recently announced an advisory on the mental health and well-being of parents. While it is not surprising that raising…

Higher suicide deaths are seen among cancer patients who do not undergo recommended surgery, according to a research letter published online Sept. 3 in JAMA Network Open. Michael L. Chen, from Stanford University in California, and colleagues used the Surveillance,…

People with obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery were more likely to control their high blood pressure over a 1-to-5 year follow-period compared to those who managed their high blood pressure with medications and lifestyle management, according to preliminary research presented…

Up to 74% of adults with treatment-resistant high blood pressure were able to get their blood pressure below 140/90 mm HG within one year through a program combining remote blood pressure monitoring with pharmacist interactions, according to preliminary research presented…

A common skin fungus, Malassezia globosa may invade deep tissues through the skin or by other means, then cause tumor growth, according to a new study. The study results were reported in mBio. “It is important to take care of…

Mpox clade I, one of two types of the virus formerly called monkeypox, is spreading quickly in Africa. Mpox clade I causes more severe illness and death than the other type—mpox clade 2. More than 18,000 cases have been reported…

Despite more than half of all residents in aged care having dementia, tools designed to improve quality of care across the sector are likely not meeting their needs, new research has found. Two studies from Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute…

Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease is rising. Credit: Pixabay New research has discovered a unique and promising avenue for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) earlier—by analyzing AD biomarkers in blood—so that the impacts of dementia can be reduced. AD is the most…

Children born in July and August are at least 40% more likely to be diagnosed with—and to receive prescriptions for—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), than children born in September and October, new research has found. This research is being presented…

A recent study led by a University at Buffalo researcher suggests a paradigm shift in patient attitudes regarding perceptions of cannabis and prescription opioid use for pain management associated with cancer treatment. The findings published in a special issue of…

Credit: Chemosphere (2024). DOI: 10.1016 A recent University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center study sheds light on how the environmental pollutant perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) may affect our intestines and possibly increase the risk of developing colorectal cancer. Published in Chemosphere,…

What parent hasn’t been there? It’s been a long day, you still have dinner to make, maybe lunches for tomorrow too, and you just don’t have the energy to wrangle your kids into a new art project or plead with…

Researchers unveil mechanism by which periodontal bacterium A. actinomycetemcomitans exacerbated symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) conducted various experiments in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They investigated the molecular-level effects of infection with the periodontal pathogen A. actinomycetemcomitans, and…

A new book published by Springer Nature, “Biomedical Photoacoustics: Technology and Applications,” invites you into the dynamic realm of photoacoustic imaging and sensing, an exciting field where optics, acoustics, and biomedical sciences converge. Photoacoustic imaging, or optoacoustic imaging, is a…

A breakthrough in medical imaging is making it possible for researchers to observe brain activity during movement and pick up the early signs of disorders that affect brain-to-body coordination, such as Parkinson’s disease. The researchers are advancing new technology that…

Four in 10 children in Central London who traveled to school by car switched to more active modes of transport, such as walking, cycling, or public transport, following the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), according to research published…

Suhi Hanif, a masters student in epidemiology and population health, investigated the transmission of diseases through soil flooring in homes in Bangladesh. Credit: Tarek Mahmud, 2023 Unlike dirt floors common in some rural parts of the world, concrete floors are…

During rehabilitation exercises socially assistive robots communicate with patients using a headset that detects brain neural activity. Credit: Heriot-Watt University Robotic ‘coaches’ aiding upper limb rehabilitation for stroke and brain injury survivors have been successfully trialed in Vienna, Austria. This…

Dr. Zihao Ou, assistant professor of physics at The University of Texas at Dallas, holds a vial of the common yellow food coloring tartrazine in solution. In an article published in Science, Ou and his collegues report that they made…

Credit: Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126 A novel study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai addresses a critical yet under-explored question in cancer research: Why is aging the biggest risk factor for cancer? The study reveals…

The neurotransmitter serotonin, released in a brain structure called the habenula, is the key molecule mediating resilience. Image shows neurons within the mouse habenula. Credit: Laboratory of Manuel Mameli, UNIL. The simple act of observing others cope with a traumatic…

World Trade Center (WTC) exposure is associated with increased DNA methylation, which may contribute to breast cancer, according to a study published in the June issue of Environmental Epidemiology. Stephanie Tuminello, Ph.D., M.P.H., from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine…

Forget about retinol night creams, researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) believe travel could be the best way to defy premature aging. For the first time, an interdisciplinary study has applied the theory of entropy to tourism, finding that travel…

For patients with symptomatic paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation, pulmonary vein isolation results in a significant and clinically important reduction in atrial fibrillation burden at six months, according to a study published online Sept. 2 in the Journal of the…

A Cattail mosquito is held up for inspection Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, in South Portland, Maine. Credit: AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File A rare but deadly mosquito-spread disease is posing a serious threat in…

The left panel illustrates the living cycle, including regular health care visits. The right panel depicts the process of adjusting to life with CLD while maintaining regular health care visits. The gradient from peach to light blue represents a shift…