Day November 5, 2024

Do you know: Ancient immune defense system plays an unexpected role in cancer in 2024 Along with defending against pathogens, the body’s innate immune system helps to protect the stability of our genomes in unexpected ways — ways that have…

Do you know: Meal timing may be crucial for night shift workers’ health in 2024 A new Australian study published in Diabetologythis week has found that overnight eating may be putting night shift workers at higher risk of chronic health…

Do you know: Handling the hype: Researcher seeks to improve science communication in 2024 Being a scientist has its challenges. Knowing how to communicate your scientific research in a socially responsible manner can be even more difficult. Fortunately, one researcher…

Do you know: What’s overweight enough for lower disability after stroke? in 2024 Slightly overweight stroke survivors have a lower risk of sustaining disabilities. The Kobe University finding adds another aspect to the obesity paradox but also highlights the importance…

Do you know: An extra year of education does not protect against brain aging, study finds in 2024 Thanks to a ‘natural experiment’ involving 30,000 people, researchers at Radboud university medical center were able to determine very precisely what an…

Do you know: Two key genes identified linking rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis in 2024 Rheumatoid arthritis is a common disease affecting an estimated 17 million people worldwide. The disease is caused by immune cells attacking the joints and can result…

Do you know: Defibrillation devices can save lives using 1,000 times less electricity in 2024 In a paper published this week in Chaosby AIP Publishing, researchers from Sergio Arboleda University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in…

Do you know: Deaf male mosquitoes don’t mate in 2024 Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair. And all it takes to woo a male is the sound of a female’s wingbeats. Imagine researchers’…

Do you know:: Forty thousand more appointments per week and ‘surgical hubs’, but will this fix the NHS? in 2024 Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ debut budget pledged increases of £22.6 billion in day-to-day spending for the NHS and £3.1 billion in…

Do you know: How a proposed federal heat rule might have saved these workers’ lives in 2024 On a sweltering afternoon in July 2020, Belinda Ramones got a call that her brother was in the hospital. The call was from…

Do you know: Why there’s so little progress in 2024 One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. There was Joshua McCray, 69, a public bus driver who, four years…

Do you know: Study explores effective strategies to combat loneliness in older adults in 2024 Loneliness among older adults is a growing public health concern, linked to cardiovascular disease, substance abuse, mental illness, high health care usage and premature death.…

Do you know: ‘Foam cells’ that accelerate tumor growth in glioblastoma can be inhibited, researchers discover in 2024 Foam cells visualized using confocal microscopy in tissue from a patient with glioblastoma. Shown are the nucleus (in blue), a marker for…

Do you know: Meal timing may be crucial for night shift workers’ health, study reveals in 2024 An Australian study published in Diabetologia has found that overnight eating may be putting night shift workers at higher risk of chronic health…

Do you know: Two genes linked to rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis could serve as targets for diagnosis and treatment in 2024 Of the many genes involved in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis, the researchers identified two key genes, ATXN2L and MMP14,…

Do you know: Gut microbes play key role in regulating stress responsiveness throughout the day, research finds in 2024 New Research by Prof John Cryan and Dr. Gabriel Tofani et al from APC Microbiome Ireland based in University College Cork…

Do you know: Alzheimer’s and alcohol use disorder found to share similar gene expression patterns in 2024 Researchers characterized the gene expression of more than 100,000 individual cells from brains of humans with Alzheimer’s disease and compared the patterns to…

Do you know: Moderate expression of CD39 in GPC3-CAR-T cells shows high efficacy against hepatocellular carcinoma in 2024 Credit: Frontiers of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s11684-024-1071-9 In the quest to enhance the efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy…

Do you know: An Indigenous person is four times more likely to die from diabetes—we need to better understand how exercise can help in 2024 It’s estimated almost 1.9 million Australians have diabetes, and numbers are growing. Between 2013 and…

Do you know: New drug may bridge gap in 2024 Artistic rendition of a choroidal neovascular lesion in a choroidal flat mount demonstrating expression of the transcription factor, hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1? (red) in RPE cells (green) in mouse eyes treated…

Do you know: Open-source AI model can assess biomedical images and text to provide real-time, patient-focused insight in 2024 a, BiomedGPT focuses primarily on visual and textual inputs, but can also process tabular data through serialization. CT, computed tomography; EHR,…

Do you know: Study reveals stubborn mistrust in COVID-19 vaccine science in 2024 Vaccine acceptance and willingness to take future recommended boosters by trust in science in 2023. Values represent percentages of N = 1,000 respondents. Credit: Vaccine: X (2024). DOI: 10.1016…

Do you know: Meta-analysis links meal timing to modest weight loss in 2024 Researchers at Bond University in Robina, Australia, have found that meal timing strategies such as time-restricted eating, reducing meal frequency, and consuming calories earlier in the day…

Do you know: Telling the real stories of health inequities through research and film in 2024 Panel discussion at screening of A Life Less Safe. Credit: King’s College London Two new studies and an accompanying short film have described the…

Do you know: New knowledge about type 1 diabetes as the large-scale TEDDY study nears completion in 2024 Incidence rates of IAA, GADA and multiple islet autoantibodies at seroconversion. Credit: Nature Reviews Endocrinology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41574-024-01045-0 In 2025, children within…

Do you know: Brain immune cells amplify damage caused by Alzheimer’s risk gene, study finds in 2024 By transplanting human neurons into mouse brains, scientists at Gladstone Institutes—including Yadong Huang (left) and Antara Rao (right)—have uncovered disease-causing interactions between the…

Do you know: Study identifies key cell subpopulation and associated gene signature in neuroblastoma in 2024 Credit: Frontiers of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s11684-024-1081-7 Neuroblastoma (NB), the most prevalent extracranial solid tumor in children, poses a significant therapeutic challenge due to…

Do you know: New study of seven million records reveals who gets long COVID in Australia in 2024 A study of 7 million medical records found that in Australia, patients with long COVID are more likely to be women than…

Do you know: Researchers begin to unravel puzzle of language learning in children in 2024 The experimental design of the study. Two experimenters sat at a table with a participant and 24 blocks on the table. Credit: Child Development (2024).…

Do you know:: Guy Fawkes’ punishment was one of the most severe in English history – here’s what happens when a body is hung, drawn and quartered in 2024 After their infamous plot to destroy parliament was foiled, Guy Fawkes…

Do you know:: What the budget got wrong about the NHS and prevention in 2024 A healthy NHS and strong economy depend on healthy people, not just strong public finances. Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget was a missed opportunity for the…

Do you know: Swedish study finds childhood overweight is associated with socio-economic vulnerability in 2024 Approximately 85% of all Swedish four-year-olds in 2018, 2020 and 2022 were included in the study, which in total comprises over 300,000 individuals. Credit: Region…

Do you know: Midwakh pipe smoking poses ‘significant’ health problems in UAE, scientists find in 2024 A traditional type of tobacco smoking locally known as midwakh is causing severe health problems and nicotine dependency among users in the United Arab…

Do you know: Long-read sequencing technique helps analyze chromosomal abnormalities in complex health conditions in 2024 Subway plots of two complex rearrangements: (A) a complex dup-trip-quad-trip-dup-del on Chromosome 2 observed in P4 and (B) a clustered CNV on Chromosome 3…

Do you know: Examining birth position and the satisfaction of expectant mothers in 2024 Maternal satisfaction with childbirth (SWCh) and birthing position. Credit: Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s00404-024-07770-1 Whether lying on their back, all-fours position, sitting upright…

Do you know: ‘Inspect the inspector,’ say public health academics in 2024 Inspectorates involved in the assessment and regulation of health care, education and other public services should be themselves assessed to instill public confidence, leading health researchers suggest. In…

Do you know: Study reveals blood sugar control is key factor in slowing brain aging, highlighting benefits of Mediterranean diet in 2024 (A) HOC deviation change across diabetes status change following 18 mo of intervention. (B) HOC change across diabetes…

Do you know: Preserving native alignment for surgical outcomes in patients undergoing knee replacement surgery in 2024 A patient who underwent total knee arthroplasty maintained a “varus” (outwards) hip-knee-ankle angle, but their joint line angle was changed from apex distal…

Do you know: Study finds pharmacy closures impact anticonvulsant medication refills in 2024 A new study, out today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has found that pharmacy closures in communities around Colorado significantly impact patient access to…

Do you know: Heart transplant patients need more support in managing severe symptoms, researcher says in 2024 When a patient with heart failure has received a new heart and survives—the transplantation is deemed a success. However, health care overlooks heart…