Day October 18, 2024

Having close family and friends who care about their health makes women more likely to get regularly screened for cancer, a new study has found. Women are more likely to undergo regular cancer screening if they have a tighter web…

Expanding access to new, highly effective weight-loss medications could prevent more than 40,000 deaths a year in the United States, according to a new study led by researchers at Yale School of Public Health and the University of Florida. The…

Professor Yingzi Lin is using AI and machine learning to objectively rate pain. “Pain touches everybody’s life.” Credit: Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University When Northeastern professor Yingzi Lin visited her father after his hip replacement, doctors asked him to measure his level…

Listening to music may help patients recover from surgery through a lower heart rate, reduced anxiety levels, less opioid use, and lower pain levels. Credit: American College of Surgeons Looking for a creative way to quicken your recovery from surgery?…

This 2016 illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts Bordetella pertussis bacteria, which causes whooping cough, based on electron microscope imagery. Credit: Meredith Newlove/CDC via AP Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade…

Cigarettes are arranged for a photograph in New York on Dec. 17, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File Teen smoking hit an all-time low in the U.S. this year, part of a big drop in the youth use of tobacco…

All cancer mutations that cause drug resistance fall into one of four categories. New research has detailed each type, helping to uncover targets for drug development and identify potential effective second-line therapies. In a new large-scale study, researchers from the…

Exposure to maternal COVID-19 is not associated with abnormal neurodevelopmental screening results through 24 months postpartum, according to a study published online Oct. 16 in JAMA Network Open. Eleni G. Jaswa, M.D., from University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues…

In the U.S., demand for in vitro fertilization (IVF) increased almost 140% between 2004 and 2018. Among other things, this trend suggests a business opportunity; in that same span of time, the market share of for-profit chain clinics grew from…

Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in U.S. women with about one in eight women diagnosed over the course of their lifetime. In about 35% of cases, a mastectomy is part of a woman’s treatment plan and involves removing…

A new UC Davis MIND Institute study offers critical insights into Rett syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects mostly girls. The research reveals how this condition affects males and females differently, with symptoms progression linked to changes in gene…

Implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) order set increases compliance with the recommended duration of prescribed antibiotics for children with acute otitis media (AOM), according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of…

While the Chargers were warming up in Denver last Sunday, Jim Harbaugh felt his heart racing. He knew that feeling, having experienced it as a player in 1999 and as an NFL head coach 13 years later. The two previous…

Akron General of the Cleveland Clinic system experienced improved outcomes with the ACS Geriatric Surgery Verification Program. Credit: American College of Surgeons Implementing the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) program can reduce rates of death after…

Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Younger adults with colon cancer tend to be diagnosed at a later stage and have more aggressive types of tumors. Additionally, young patients living with colorectal cancer have long-term, adverse consequences on their lives, which…

Indigenous communities in Latin America say they are being excluded from the global HIV/AIDS response. Credit: UNAIDS Indigenous communities in Latin America say they are being excluded from the global HIV/AIDS response, leaving them without access to life-saving medicines and…

A diagnosis of cancer can take a toll on more than a person’s health. Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston found that financial fallout can follow patients with cancer and their families in…

Newer weight loss drugs are cost effective in the long term only when combined with bariatric weight loss surgery, according to a study presented at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2024 in San Francisco, California. Further, a…

Scientists have identified previously unreported genes which appear to play a key role in the muscle aging process. It is hoped that the findings from a Nottingham Trent University study could be used to help delay the impact of the…

Credit: Josh Sorenson from Pexels A system-wide preoperative nutrition program improves patient outcomes and offers the potential for substantial cost savings for health care systems, according to a study presented at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2024…

As the country prepares to “fall back” to standard time on Sunday, Nov. 3, the Coalition for Permanent Standard Time is advocating for the abolition of daylight saving time in favor of permanent, year-round standard time, which would improve public…

Although breast cancer is the most common non-skin cancer diagnosed in women, finding support during treatment and through survivorship can be incredibly challenging. An analysis of posts from breast cancer patients on the popular online forum Reddit found that many…

The new Northern Territory government is planning a swathe of changes to alcohol policy. If implemented, these changes fly in the face of what evidence shows works to reduce alcohol-related harms. Some are also out of step with the rest…

Do you wash your hands every time you use the toilet? How about before you handle food? Be honest. Australia’s Food Safety Information Council has released its latest report card on the country’s hand washing habits. It found 19% of…

Aaron James after the combined face and whole-eye transplant. Credit: Haley Ricciardi/NYU Langone Health An explanation of how an NYU Langone Health surgical team performed the world’s first combined face and whole-eye transplantation was presented at the American College of…

Immunofluorescence image of a human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived liver organoid developed in the Tissue Orb bioreactor. Credit: Tammy T. Chang, MD Ph.D. FACS An “out-of-this-world” project has the potential to transform the future of tissue engineering and liver…

A confocal image of the wild-type mouse aorta stained with human lamin A/C (green), Ang2 (red), and the nucleus (blue). Credit: Sahar Vakili A University of Maryland-led discovery could spur the development of new and improved treatments for Hutchinson-Gilford progeria…

Cancer is a leading cause of death among Hispanic people in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society. Compared to non-Hispanic white people, Hispanic men and women are less likely to be diagnosed with common cancers such as lung,…

A buff-cheeked gibbon swings in its cage at Hong Kong’s Zoological and Botanical Gardens in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. Credit: AP Photo Nine monkeys who died in Hong Kong’s oldest zoo in two days this week had been…

PLD3 is localized in the lysosomes of HMC3 microglial cells, a population of immune cells that play a key role in maintaining brain health. Credit: The Farese & Walther Lab Scientists have gained a deeper understanding of a molecule that…

The BRCA Exchange is a platform that consolidates data on BRCA 1 and 2 genetic variants, the genes associated with breast cancer risk . Credit: Kindea Labs Imagine that you have a history of breast cancer in your family, and…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Nucleic Acids Research (2024). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae776 A research team at the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro) has led a study describing a new molecular mechanism that affects RNA processing and alters the process…

Intrauterine devices (IUDs) may raise the chances of a breast cancer diagnosis for women who use the hormonal birth control method, but that risk remains low, new research finds. In the study of 150,000 Danish women, published this week in…

Credit: Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Imagine a child visiting a farm and seeing sheep and goats for the first time. Their parent points out which is what, helping the child learn to distinguish between the two. But…

Overview and performance of Droplet Hi-C. Credit: Nature Biotechnology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41587-024-02447-1 Researchers at the University of California San Diego Center for Epigenomics (C4E) have developed a new technique, called Droplet Hi-C, that allows scientists to rapidly determine chromatin organization,…

In the Bhattacharyya lab, researchers develop methods to quickly identify the most appropriate treatments for bacterial infections. Credit: Kevin Middleton, Broad Communications For patients with bacterial infections, the sooner they are treated with the appropriate antibiotics, the better they will…

Invasion/chemotaxis of breast cancer cells towards different bone cell types. Credit: PLOS ONE (2024). DOI: 10.1371 Researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, have developed an in vitro cancer model to investigate why breast cancer spreads…

Recent research focuses on adapting an acceptance-based mental health intervention called Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT-W), which was developed by Dr. Paul Flaxman and Ross McIntosh at City St George’s, to fit Uganda’s unique socio-cultural and economic environment. With Uganda’s…

Parenchymal cell lipid regulation by endothelial force sensing. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126 A new discovery about how the liver flushes cholesterol from the body could lead to more effective treatments for cardiovascular disease—the leading cause of death worldwide.…

The much-touted arrival of “precision medicine” promises tailored technologies that help individuals and may also reduce health care costs. New research shows how pregnancy screening can meet both of these objectives, but the findings also highlight how precision medicine must…