Day September 9, 2024

Young people exposed to social media posts by celebrities and influencers who endorse nicotine products are more susceptible to smoking or vaping, University of Queensland research has found. Dr. Carmen Lim from UQ’s National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research…

With schools nationwide back in session, millions of children across the United States will clamber up the jungle gyms and hang from the monkey bars that have been a fixture of playgrounds since they were invented in the 1920s. But…

In July 2023, rising US basketball star Bronny James collapsed on the court during practice and was sent to hospital. The 18-year-old athlete, son of famous LA Lakers’ veteran LeBron James, had experienced a cardiac arrest. Many media outlets incorrectly…

People who have negative expectations about a treatment actually experience more pain. Merve Karacaoglu discovered in her Ph.D. research that anxious and pessimistic individuals are particularly susceptible to this nocebo effect. However, this sensitivity comes with a silver lining. Causing…

The recipient of the world’s first combined whole-eye and partial face transplant is doing well more than a year out from his groundbreaking surgery, NYU Langone doctors report. Aaron James, a 46-year-old military veteran from Arkansas, says over the past…

Beginning Jan. 1, Americans with private health insurance coverage should gain better access to mental health care, as well as care to help ease substance abuse, federal officials announced Monday. “Like medical care, mental health care is vital to the…

Schematic illustration of the primary conclusion. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51837-1 In hospital operating rooms and intensive care units, propofol is a drug of choice, widely used to sedate patients for their comfort or render them fully unconscious for…

The computer systems run by the consulting giant Deloitte that millions of Americans rely on for Medicaid and other government benefits are prone to errors that can take years and hundreds of millions of dollars to update. While states wait…

Pupillary light reflex (PLR) assessment in open-eye and closed-eye conditions. Credit: Communications Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43856-024-00572-1 A new technological development allows researchers, for the first time, to monitor changes in pupil size and gaze direction behind closed eyes using touchless…

New research suggests that a family member’s cancer diagnosis may increase first-degree relatives’ and spouses’ risks of developing psychological and cardiovascular illnesses. The findings are published in the journal Cancer. Having a family member diagnosed with cancer can be a…

India on Monday said it had verified an “isolated” mpox case but said it was not the new strain of the virus driving the ongoing global health emergency. Mpox’s resurgence, and the detection in the Democratic Republic of Congo of…

Prostate cancer cells. Credit: NIH Image Gallery Researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have uncovered a key reason that a typically normal protein goes awry and fuels cancer. They found that the protein NSD2 alters the…

Glycosphingolipids (in pink, via Cholera Toxin B) are so critical for cancer immune evasion that certain cancer cells cannot proliferate without it. Credit: Rockefeller University Cancer cells seldom start off stealthy. Quite to the contrary, they announce their presence to…

Datasets and analysis schematic. Credit: Molecular Psychiatry (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02708-0 Communication between regions of the brain is constantly in flux, but the neuroimaging technologies used to analyze these interactions typically provide only a snapshot representing several minutes’ worth of changes…

Proportion of suicidal ideation profile, by age group—% (n?=?1793). Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-68823-8 Nearly three times as many Canadians—close to 8%—thought of killing themselves in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic than in previous years, a new…

Credit: Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016 A team of medical researchers at the Washington University Pain Center, in St. Louis, working with colleagues from the Georgia Institute of Technology, has isolated the neurons in the airways of mice that trigger sneezes…

As a wave of gene therapies with multimillion-dollar price tags hit the market, many employers are dropping coverage and leaving families in a bind. For Amanda Reed, the blows came one after another, a gut-punch introduction to motherhood. Newborn screening…

As the school year begins, every family wants their children to be healthy, active and ready to learn. To prepare children and teens to be at their best—physically, mentally, socially and emotionally—the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends regular visits to…

While COVID-19 continues to evolve, there is some good news when it comes to detecting the virus. “The tests we’ve used over the last three or four years don’t seem to be significantly impacted by the new variants,” says Dr.…

Diabetes affects millions of Americans, with 1.4 million new cases diagnosed each year. This chronic condition is one of the leading causes of death in the United States and accounts for more than $320 billion in annual health care costs.…

About 11,000 Asian American and Pacific Islander women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021 and about 1,500 died. The latest federal data shows the rate of new breast cancer diagnoses in Asian American and Pacific Islander women—a group that…

Getting older tends to go hand in hand with failing vision, but eye experts say there are things you can do to preserve your sight as you age. The risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy increases among…

Credit: Tanya Sysoeva Until recently, it was believed that human urine is sterile, but advanced culturing techniques and DNA sequencing have revealed that bacteria and other microbes—such as viruses and fungi—inhabit the human bladder and urinary tract, known collectively as…

NIAViD is a model for detecting antigenic transitions in influenza A (H3N2) without knowledge of cluster identity. This figure illustrates the computational workflow used to fit and validate NIAViD. Credit: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2024). DOI:…

Researchers at the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit in Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have discovered a new neuronal mechanism in the hippocampus, that prevents new “flexible” memories from being formed due to a past “robust” memory. The paper,…

Credit: International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.3390/ijms25168876 Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have developed a highly promising gene therapy to treat glaucoma, a debilitating eye condition that can lead to complete vision loss, and which affects around 80…

Benchmark for evaluating and optimizing existing pathway analysis methods. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51859-9 Research from Purdue University in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reveals that, thanks to a new computational tool, a cancer drug dismissed…

Anyone who watched Olympic bronze medalist Ilona Maher giving her rugby opponents the stiff arm knows she is tough as nails. Yet she recently posted a video on social media exhaling deeply, clutching her stomach and leaning into a tree…

Similar to generative AI models that create pictures based on a photo, or a textual description of a motive, in the style of different artists, the VirtualMultiplexer produces virtual colorations for specific cellular markers within a tissue. A standard dye…

A new survey finds the majority of American men believe the first step in prostate cancer screening is an invasive rectal exam by their doctor. That’s not true, but mistaken beliefs like these could keep men from getting screened until…

Comparison of the significant differences in gene expression profiles between DC-activated cells (orange dots) and bead-activated cells (black dots) on their ‘optimal effective days’ (days 4 and 7, respectively). Credit: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (2024). DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2024-009011 Cellular immunotherapy,…

Smaller, more circularized mitochondria in glia of RTT cerebral organoids. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-71040-y Rett syndrome is a X-chromosome-linked neurodevelopmental disorder; it can lead to loss of coordination, mobility, ability to speak, and use of the hands, among…

Johan Sandberg. Credit: Karolinska Institutet A new study from Karolinska Institutet has mapped how MAIT cells, which play an important role in the body’s defense against microbes, exhibit different properties depending on the tissue they are in. MAIT cells are…

MSG is making a comeback. The internet’s favorite cucumber salad recipe includes fish sauce, cucumber, garlic, and—as the video’s creator Logan tells us with a generous sprinkle from the bag—”MSG, obviously.” But for many of us, it’s not obvious. Do…

by Joel Lexchin, Brigitte Tenni, Deborah Gleeson and Ronald Labonte, This article is republished from original article. Citation: Africa desperately needs mpox vaccines—but donations from rich countries won’t fix this or next health emergency (2024, September 9) africa-desperately-mpox-vaccines-donations.html . .…

E1–E2 interaction in the membrane. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07783-5 Around 58 million people suffer from chronic inflammation caused by the hepatitis C virus, and 300,000 people die from the disease every year. So far, no treatment has successfully managed…

Credit: Anna Tarazevich from Pexels Skin cancer is declining among younger adults in Sweden for the first time after decades of increases, making it the first European country to see a fall, researchers said on Monday. The risk of skin…

Researchers at UC San Francisco are getting closer to being able to predict sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. In a study appearing in JAMA Pediatrics, they have identified signals in the metabolic system of infants who died of SIDS.…

Excessive cell proliferation (left) and stem cell exhaustion (right) during aging. Credit: RIKEN Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) have identified key changes to both chromosome structure and gene expression that affect stem cell function during…

Rutgers Health researchers have found that parents who actively teach their children how to handle or shoot firearms are more likely to store loaded guns in unsecured locations. “Some parents may believe that modeling responsible firearm use negates the need…