A recent study published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging determines whether a high-fat diet contributes to memory decline in older people compared to aging alone. Study: High-fat diet and aging-associated memory impairments persist in the absence of microglia in female rats. Image Credit: beats1 / Shutterstock.com Diet and aging Highly processed food products, which are…
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Up to 60% of men with erectile dysfunction who were not candidates for phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibitors achieved erections in less than 10 minutes after a single application of a first-on-the-market nonprescription gel to the glans, a new study found. Dr Wayne Hellstrom Wayne Hellstrom, MD, chief of andrology at Tulane School of Medicine in…
Why does the word “cancer” have its roots in the ancient Greek and Latin words for crab? The physician Galen offers one explanation. Credit: Pierre Roche Vigneron/Wikimedia One of the earliest descriptions of someone with cancer comes from the fourth century BC. Satyrus, tyrant of the city of Heracleia on the Black Sea, developed a…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A national survey led by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago found that parents have insufficient knowledge of newborn screening in general and of cystic fibrosis (CF) in particular. Researchers asked specific questions about CF based on studies showing that initial CF follow-up visits after a positive newborn…
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain All the parts of our bodies share an inherent connectivity. This goes much further than “the foot bone’s connected to the … leg bone.” For instance, both hands and feet are connected to a constantly flowing bloodstream, and a nerve network that makes their muscles kick. So what about the connection…
There are innumerable examples of when we have been faced with moments of great opportunity to make progress and failed to meet the moment. Just a few years after the global Covid-19 pandemic, the fast development of life-saving vaccines was juxtaposed against several unsolved problems, such as a growing shortage of healthcare providers, a mental…
As the burden of documentation and various other administrative duties has increased, physician burnout has reached historical levels. In response, EHR vendors are embedding generative AI tools to aid physicians by drafting their responses to patient messages. However, there is a lot that we don’t yet know about these tools’ accuracy and effectiveness. Researchers at…
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In late March, PHTI (Peterson Health Technology Institute) raised the bar for all of us working to digitize healthcare when they issued their first evidence assessment reporting the evaluation of digital diabetes management tools that support improved glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes—or claiming to. The head-scratcher here is that despite claiming to…
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Patients with COVID-19 had lower viral loads if treated with metformin, according to new University of Minnesota research that argues for broader use of the cheap anti-diabetes drug and against the controversial use of ivermectin. The findings helped connect the dots and explain why metformin in a U-led clinical trial reduced…
Hormone replacement therapy can safely ease middle-aged women’s symptoms during early menopause, data from a major women’s health study show. Women younger than 60 can use hormone replacement to treat symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats without significantly increasing their risk of breast cancer or other health problems, according to long-term results from the…
In the first randomized controlled trial of prednisone for postvasectomy reversals, fertility researchers found that a high dose of the steroid reduced the rate of subsequent pregnancy. Dr Landon Trost “This is the first time it’s been shown that high doses [of prednisone] can make someone infertile,” said Landon Trost, MD, director of the Male…
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CD7 expression is associated with poorer outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to a study published online April 11 in the British Journal of Haematology. Wei-Ying Jen, B.M., B.Ch., from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and colleagues collected flow cytometry data on 901 patients with…
Credit: Arvind Philomin from Pexels At an auction in England in 2011, one of John Lennon’s teeth sold for just over US$31,000. How much are your teeth worth? Teeth are amazing little miracles. They light up our smiles, we use them to speak and we chew with them more than 600 times at every meal….
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain By the time you have finished reading this article, at least one species on our planet will be lost forever. Humans rely on a wide range of animals, plants and microorganisms for healthy living environments. Research has shown that the continuing decline in biodiversity—the variety of life on Earth—is a threat…
An experimental handheld ultrasonic device used in an office setting was shown to guide residual kidney stone fragments out of the body and markedly reduce the risk for relapse, researchers reported (Abstract MP29-10) on May 4 at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Urological Association in San Antonio, Texas. Dr Mathew Sorensen Mathew Sorensen,…
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain A personalized mRNA vaccine to treat melanoma has now reached late-stage trials in the UK. This is just the latest step in improving the cure rate of cancer. This form of cancer therapy harnesses the power of the body’s immune system to target and eradicate cancer cells. During the phase 2…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The World Health Organization declared an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency on May 5, 2023. In the year since, only two provinces—Alberta and Ontario—have published proposals for dealing with future health emergencies. As a public health economist, I have drawn five lessons from these reports that the remaining provinces…
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Those first strands of gray hair are a sign of the inevitable. We’re getting older and our bodies are changing. We may grow a little rounder around the waistline, or wake in the night, or feel a little stiffer in the morning. Yet while we adapt to new realities, we shouldn’t discount every symptom as…
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STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor here, or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay. “Medical students lose in the research arms race for residency slots,” by…
More than half of women who smoke before pregnancy quit while pregnant, according to research published in the May 2 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Lauren Kipling, Ph.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues used data from the 2021 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System…
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study co-authored by Sophie Janicke-Bowles, associate professor in Chapman University’s School of Communication, sheds light on the role that new and traditional media play in promoting and affecting character development, emotions, prosocial behavior and well-being (aka happiness) in youth. Her research and teaching focus on positive psychology, media and…
KFF Health News senior correspondent Samantha Young discussed Medicaid and climate change on KCBS Radio’s “On-Demand” podcast on April 29. Click here to hear Young on KCBS Read Young’s “AC, Power Banks, Mini Fridges: Oregon Equips Medicaid Patients for Climate Change” KFF Health News contributor Andy Miller discussed Medicaid unwinding on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health…
Lindsay Sabik, Ph.D., associate professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and member of the Biobehavioral Cancer Control Program at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. Credit: Lindsay Sabik Insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were linked with an…
Current status of the NCC biobank. The inventories of the two major samples collected in the biobank are shown as of 31 October 2022. In addition to the 1) peripheral blood samples drawn for research purposes and 2) frozen cancer tissue samples, other left-over samples, such as FFPE blocks and plasma, are also used based…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the 1992 dystopian novel “Children of Men,” later adapted to film, humanity faces the chilling reality of a world without children, a global infertility crisis that threatens to extinguish the species. While this apocalyptic vision might seem far-fetched, today’s real world faces a quieter but equally alarming phenomenon: declining human…
Credit: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2024.02.018 In the field of biomedical research and genomics, the advancement of bioinformatics technologies and tools is opening new frontiers in the understanding of diseases and their diagnosis and treatment. In particular, differential gene expression analysis (DGE) is emerging as a crucial technique to investigate the molecular…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Pandemics, global warming, and rampant gun violence are all clear lessons in the need to move large groups of people to change their behavior. When a crisis hits, researchers, policymakers, health officials, and community leaders have to know how best to encourage people to change en masse and quickly. Each crisis…
Psychological and physical health status and quality of life increased over the treatment period (A). Psychological distress improved over the 13-week treatment period (B). Self-reported craving also reduced over the treatment period (C). Credit: Clinical Case Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.8740 Researchers are recommending full-scale human trials after an insomnia drug helped a man withdraw from…
Artistic rendering of a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) (blue) on a T cell attaching to a targeted cancer protein (red) on another cell. Credit: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Targeting anti-cancer therapy to affect cancer cells but not healthy cells is challenging. For chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T–cell immunotherapy, where a patient’s own immune cells…