Reviewers’ Notes Gait-related disturbances adversely affect the quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), a condition affecting millions worldwide. Although various pharmacological, surgical, and rehabilitative treatments exist, their effectiveness is limited. Now, a team of researchers from Japan has successfully addressed this limitation. Using a novel neuromodulation approach that incorporates gait-combined closed-loop transcranial […]
Reviewers’ Notes The world of at-home stroke rehabilitation is growing near, incredible news for the 795,000 people in the United States who annually suffer a stroke. A new low cost, portable brain-computer interface that connects the brain of stroke patients to powered exoskeletons for rehabilitation purposes has been validated and tested at the University of […]
Miscuffing results in inaccurate blood pressure (BP) measurements, according to a study published online Aug. 7 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Junichi Ishigami, M.D., M.P.H., from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues examined the effects of using a regular BP cuff versus an appropriately sized BP cuff on automated BP […]
For patients with Meniere disease (MD), radiological temporal bone features known to be weakly or inconsistently associated with clinical diagnosis of MD are highly prevalent in one of two MD patient groups, according to a study published online June 26 in Scientific Reports. David Bächinger, M.D., Ph.D., from the University Hospital Zurich, and colleagues examined […]
A machine learning model found that background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) on breast MRI is an indicator of breast cancer risk in women with extremely dense breasts, according to a study published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Women with extremely dense breasts are at a three- to six-times higher […]
Anti-gephyrin autoantibodies have been tied to lower gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction, such as severe constipation and distention, in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), new research suggests. Researchers also found that gephyrin is expressed in the patient’s enteric nervous system (ENS), which regulates gut motility. Dr Zsuzsanna McMahan “While there are many antibodies that are helpful in […]
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by multisystem involvement. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) or scleroderma is another rheumatic autoimmune disease that affects blood vessels, skin, and visceral organs. EULAR has previously published recommendations for the management of these two conditions focused on pharmacological drugs,1,2 but different non-pharmacological interventions may also be suitable […]
In a recent study published in the Metabolites Journal, researchers investigated the correlation between vitamin D deficiency and metabolic syndrome (MetS) components. Study: Vitamin D Deficiency in Obese Children Is Associated with Some Metabolic Syndrome Components, but Not with Metabolic Syndrome Itself. Image Credit: FotoHelin/Shutterstock.com Background Vitamin D, important in various biological processes, is synthesized as cholecalciferol […]
Dr Hilary Jones explains nine new symptoms of Covid A new Covid variant is now the dominant strain, driving up the majority of cases in the US. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explained that as of Friday, more than one in six Covid cases are projected to be caused by a subvariant […]
Reviewers’ Notes The spinal cord is harder to access and study than even the brain. The challenges posed by its mobility and anatomical structure have made understanding exactly how it functions difficult. Rice University engineers will work with collaborators to optimize an array of nanoelectronic threads, or NETs ⎯ already used successfully for gathering high-fidelity, […]
