Day September 5, 2024

For the first time, a new report has revealed the wide-ranging and increasing health dangers posed by long-term weather extremes in the UK, as the effects of climate change deepen. The review, published in The Lancet Planetary Health and led…

Credit: AI-generated image Three people who tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease have died after an outbreak at an assisted living facility in upstate New York, officials said Thursday. Albany County health officials became aware of a cluster of cases at…

Members of Dr Winton’s research group designing a new dementia garden for an organisation called Kirrie Connections, a dementia-friendly community centre in Kirriemuir. Credit: Heriot-Watt University People living with dementia should have more power and creative freedom in collaborative design…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2024). DOI: 10.1172/JCI178239 A research group led by Prof. Zhu Yingjie from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the essential role of lateral septum…

The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of an mpox outbreak, on Thursday received its first vaccines—almost half of 200,000 doses donated by the European Union and due to arrive by the end of the week to fight its spread.…

Covid-19 vaccination syringes Credit: Jürgen Gocke / University of Freiburg Esoteric attitudes—especially with regard to complementary and alternative medicine—have an influence on the willingness to be vaccinated. Dr. Sebastian Jäckle and Dr. James K. Timmis, both from the Department of…

A research team from the School of Public Health and the School of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore), and the University of British Columbia (Canada) found that extending Hong…

Young women worldwide face problems like unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The 1.8 billion adolescents and young people (age 15-24) of both sexes worldwide account for 42% of new HIV infections. Providing sexual and reproductive health education to young…

Timeline of events and cascading risk pathway and potential data sources, the United Kingdom, August–October 2022. Credit: Eurosurveillance A study published in Eurosurveillance to investigate an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157:H7 in the UK identified contaminated lettuce…

Targeting strategy to knock down the mouse HTR2A gene using shRNA and transduction efficiency in primary mouse cortical neurons. Credit: Genomic Psychiatry (2024). DOI: 10.61373 Scientists at Cognigenics have made a significant advance in the field of neuroscience and mental…

A new study published in Nature Communications examines how the brain initiates spontaneous actions. In addition to demonstrating how spontaneous action emerges without environmental input, this research has implications for the origins of slow ramping of neural activity before movement…

Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) reduced the risk of cardiovascular death or heart failure (HF) hospitalization in patients with HF and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and also in those with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFmrEF/HFpEF), according to late-breaking research…

Just 5.9% of American middle and high school students now vape, a big drop from the 7.7% who did so a year ago, new government data shows. Put another way, about 1.6 million youth now say they used e-cigarettes at…

A new study reveals that young patients treated with psychiatric medications receive potentially dangerous combinations with concerning frequency. Researchers from Rutgers Health and other institutions recently analyzed New York State Medicaid records for more than 141,000 patients receiving any psychiatric…

Artificial intelligence-derived intracranial pressure monitors vital information noninvasively, increasing accessibility and decreasing risk. By doing so, it could enable health care providers to intervene more quickly to save lives. Credit: Faris Gulamali and lab of Girish Nadkarni, MD, Ph.D., at…

For children and adolescents who have anxiety, going to school can feel like a nightmare. Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in the United States for adults. And since the COVID-19 pandemic, anxiety that interferes with daily life…

The growing legal use of recreational and medical cannabis has generated an increased concern for potential side effects from long-term use, particularly regarding problems with memory and sleep. Until now, the effect of cannabis use on sleep and on memory…

Vaccination against respiratory syncytial virus for adults over 60 is likely to be cost-effective by preventing illness, hospitalizations, lost quality of life and deaths, according to new research. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan and the…

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have used artificial intelligence to identify drug targets based on mapping regulatory networks in patient tumors. The study, published in Cell Systems, experimentally identified and validated four drug candidates for neuroendocrine, liver and renal cancers,…

Latinx immigrant adults traveling to the United States are extorted—on average—$804 per research participant throughout the journey, according to a study appearing in Injury Epidemiology. “This study is rooted in research into newly arrived immigrant exposure to trauma, using an…

The University of Cincinnati’s Robert Van Haren was featured in a MedCentral article discussing recent research that found smoking cessation significantly reduced the risk of developing hidradenitis suppurativa, a non-contagious chronic inflammatory skin disorder characterized by painful nodules, abscesses and…

These brain scans show different neural signatures associated with pain response: the NAPS (left) is associated with the emotional experience of pain, the SIIPS-1 (center) is related to our expectations of pain and other psychosocial factors, and the NPS (right)…

Visual representation of regions of the US in which key informant experts work. Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Food insecurity, defined as the lack of consistent access to sufficient food for an active, healthy life,…

About 14% of children and teens in the U.S. either have high blood pressure or are headed toward it, according to preliminary new research that suggests a need for greater prevention efforts earlier in life. “Hypertension can begin in childhood,…

A total of seven individuals worldwide (two patients in Berlin and patients in London, Düsseldorf, New York, City of Hope and Geneva) are considered likely to have been cured or to be in long-term remission of HIV infection after receiving…

Description of plasmonic biosensor platform. (A) Schematic of integrated plasmonic biosensor platform. Top inset shows specificity of surface-functionalized DNA aptamer in presence of other interfering species, where the aptamer binds selectively to dopamine. Bottom inset shows a cartoon representation of…

by Frederike Buhse, Exzellenzcluster Präzisionsmedizin für chronische Entzündungserkrankungen Graphical abstract. Credit: Immunity (2024). DOI: 10.1016 In autoimmune diseases, the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s own structures. A research team from Kiel, Lübeck and Berlin has now succeeded in analyzing…

Using hypertonic saline nasal drops can reduce the length of the common cold in children by two days, according to a study that will be presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Vienna, Austria. They can also reduce…

The vision of people with a rare inherited condition that causes them to lose much of their sight early in childhood was 100 times better after they received gene therapy to address the genetic mutation causing it. Some patients even…

This digitally-colorized, negative-stained transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicted a number of Influenza A virions. Credit: CDC/Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5,…

Microbial community analysis using 16S rRNA sequencing. FP-100 treatment reduced the relative abundance of F. nucleatum without a significant change in alpha diversity, but a significant community shift was demonstrated by beta diversity. Credit: Journal of Oral Microbiology (2024). DOI:…

Inhaler devices are a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, according to a research letter published online Aug. 29 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Jyothi Tirumalasetty, M.D., from the Stanford University School of…

The association of prenatal ?-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (n-3 LCPUFA) with the risk for childhood atopic dermatitis (AD) varies based on the maternal cyclooxygenase-1 (COX1) genotype, according to a study published online Aug. 28 in JAMA Dermatology. Liang Chen,…

Potassium supplementation at a threshold of <3.6 mEq/L is noninferior to the current 4.5-mEq/L threshold to prevent atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery, according to a study published online Aug. 31 in the Journal of the American…

BAL T cell enrichment is associated with clinical outcome in SARS-CoV-2-P. Credit: Nature Immunology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41590-024-01914-w Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified distinct T-cell responses associated with patient outcomes in unvaccinated individuals with severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, according to findings published…

Schematic of a theoretical mechanism for psychedelic-induced fear suppression. Activation of excitatory inputs to BLA principal neurons drives fear responses during cue presentation. 5-HT2A receptor agonists activate PV neurons which release GABA to inhibit principal neuron activity and reduce fear…

This graphic depicts the vibration device which provides haptic stimulation while ecg (electrocardiogram) signal is used to provide precise synchronization. Credit: Ivcher Institute For Brain Cognition And Technology, Reichman University A recent study published in Psychophysiology by a team of…

First-generation antihistamines are associated with a higher seizure risk in young children, according to a study published online Aug. 28 in JAMA Network Open. Ju Hee Kim, M.D., from the Kyung Hee University Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, and…

There is an association between genetically predicted increased insulin concentrations and decreased concentrations of circulating lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]), according to a study published online Aug. 29 in Cardiovascular Diabetology to coincide with the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2024, held from…

Efforts to rule out bladder tumors and tuberculosis are still essential in the follow-up of patients with suspected interstitial cystitis (IC), according to a study published online Aug. 11 in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. Hyun Ju Jeong,…