CHARLOTTE, N.C. – What may be the largest case-based study of patients with migraine and sleep-disordered breathing to date has found that, counter to prevailing thought, they may not be at higher risk of having obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) than nonmigraine patients, although further prospective studies are needed to validate that finding. Dr Eric Gruenthal […]
Technology has increasingly blurred the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. This has led to dramatic shifts in daily life and changed the way children and adolescents live, socialize, move around and learn. Never before has this been so evident than at the onset of the COVID pandemic and the subsequent exponential rise in […]
To cure rare genetic diseases, from cystic fibrosis to Niemann-Pick, scientists at Scripps Research have turned to a computational approach usually used to pinpoint the best spot for an oil well. By using the method to analyze the spatial relationships between different variants of a protein—instead of the relationships between test wells across a landscape—the […]
June 16, 2022 — What would you do if you believed you had a serious health issue, but the best way to find out for sure might kill you? That’s the reality for patients who wish to confirm or rule out a food allergy, says Sindy Tang, PhD, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at […]
A new study finds that the more a person stares at themself while talking with a partner in an online chat, the more their mood degrades over the course of the conversation. Alcohol use appears to worsen the problem, the researchers found. Reported in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, the findings point to a potentially […]
June 16, 2022 — Legendary singer Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the organization announced on Wednesday. The new gift is one of several that Parton has made to the medical center over the years, including a $1 million gift in April 2020 for COVID-19 vaccine […]
MADRID — During the International Scientific Symposium “New Frontiers in Scientific Research” that recently took place in Barcelona, specialists analyzed the role of the very-low-calorie ketogenic diet. This analysis was in relation to three comorbidities that have a higher incidence among overweight and obese patients: polycystic ovary syndrome, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and type 2 diabetes. […]
Jessica Oberoi, 13, can’t exactly remember when her eyesight started getting blurry. All she knows is that she had to squint to see the whiteboard at school. It wasn’t until last fall when her eighth grade class in Bloomington, Indiana, got vision screenings that Jessica’s extreme nearsightedness and amblyopia, or lazy eye, were discovered. She’s […]
Androgen receptor (AR) signaling affects response to BRAF/MEK inhibitor therapy in both males and females with melanoma, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center showed in a study published today in Nature. The findings provide a new target to combat therapeutic resistance and one possible answer to why men face a poorer […]
La Trobe University-led research may have uncovered the cause of the neurological conditions seen in patients with long COVID, such as brain fog. The study, published in Nature Communications, provides the first indications that some of the neurological symptoms in long-COVID are being caused by amyloid clumps appearing in the brain that are similar to […]
