Approximately one in five older adults in the U.S. is transferred to a nursing home following a hospital stay. For many of these patients, an accessible medical record does not accompany them, often negatively affecting the care they receive at the nursing home. This poor information sharing is a significant problem contributing to the adverse […]
Gautam Dongre’s two children in India and Pascazia Mazeze’s son in Tanzania live with an inherited blood disorder that turns blood cells into instruments of pain. Now that new gene therapies promise a cure for their sickle cell disease, Dongre says he’s “praying the treatment should come to us.” But experts say the one-time treatment […]
A study led by David Berry and Alessandra Riva from the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna has significantly advanced our understanding of prebiotics in nutrition and gut health. The study, published today in Nature Communications, reveals the extensive and diverse effects of inulin, a widely used prebiotic, […]
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel told AFP his company’s experimental vaccine against melanoma could be available in as little as two years, in what would amount to a landmark step against the most serious form of skin cancer. Globally there were an estimated 325,000 new melanoma cases and 57 ,000 deaths from the disease in 2020. […]
Do YOU have a ‘very irregular’ sleep pattern? Scientists claim you’re 53% more likely to get dementia READ MORE: Is your memory loss usual for your age… or is it DEMENTIA? We all know that getting enough sleep is important for your brain. But going to sleep and waking up at the same time each day […]
Computational models that mimic the structure and function of the human auditory system could help researchers design better hearing aids, cochlear implants, and brain-machine interfaces. A new study from MIT has found that modern computational models derived from machine learning are moving closer to this goal. In the largest study yet of deep neural networks […]
In 1976, a Swedish pathologist, C.G Lindström, published a paper describing a colonic anomaly. Through his microscope, he noted that part of the large intestinal wall of one of his patients was thickened. The patient, whose large intestine had been so thoroughly examined, suffered from chronic diarrhea. The pathologist suggested naming the new entity collagenous […]
A type of cell that plays a crucial role in tissue repair after a heart attack may also inadvertently be why cutting-edge cell therapies cause an increased risk of rhythm disorders, according to a new study from the Universities of Surrey and Oxford. Researchers hope the findings could open up new pathways to safe regenerative […]
The vast majority of older adults—83%—think health insurers should cover medications that can help people with obesity manage their weight, a new poll of people age 50 to 80 finds. Nearly as many—76%—believe Medicare should cover these drugs, which it cannot currently do under law, according to the new results from the University of Michigan […]
In a recent article published in BMC Public Health, researchers described the protocol of the MEDITAGING study conducted among old Portuguese-speaking migrants in Luxembourg. This double-blinded, monocentric, randomized controlled trial quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) vis-à-vis a health promotion program (HPP) developed based on the literature in the field. Study: The MEDITAGING study: protocol of […]
