THURSDAY, Nov. 5, 2020 — If you’ve recovered from a COVID-19 infection, you can help as many as four other COVID-19 patients get better, simply by donating your plasma. Is it worth it? Just ask Melissa Sullivan. The 35-year-old COVID-19 survivor and self-confessed needle-phobe donated her plasma soon after she recovered, and she plans on […]
A new study by Monash University has found that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been linked to an increased risk of dementia. The study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, and led by Dr Melinda Jackson from the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, found that severe OSA is linked to an increase […]
UNSW’s Dr. George Dertadian says the anxieties, stresses and strains people are dealing with in the pandemic could be influencing the use of drugs in society. “The combination of these existential threats and personal problems have the potential to drive up the use of non-medical pharmaceuticals,” says Dr. Dertadian, a social researcher who has published […]
As COVID-19 infections spike around the globe, with no end in sight for months, questions are beginning to arise around the long-term effects of the pandemic on our mental health and brain health. In a new paper published this week in Trends in Neuroscience, Judy Illes, neuroethicist and professor of neurology, and her team at […]
A new study reveals that many older men who experience a fracture are still underdiagnosed with and undertreated for osteoporosis. Details of the study was presented at ACR Convergence, the American College Rheumatology’s annual meeting (ABSTRACT #0533). Osteoporosis is a common condition that results from a loss of bone mass, measured as bone density, and […]
A rare, debilitating condition in pregnancy that causes nausea and vomiting so severe that some women end up terminating their pregnancies can be effectively treated with the seizure drug gabapentin. That is the finding of a new study of 21 women with the condition led by the University at Buffalo and published on Oct. 29 […]
Reducing exposure to air pollution and reversing the negative impact of poor air quality on heart health through individual, industry and policy measures is essential to drive down disparities in health outcomes. The American Heart Association, the world’s leading voluntary health organization dedicated to building longer, healthier lives, today published a scientific statement and policy […]
10 November 2020 — AstraZeneca and Amgen today announced positive results from the NAVIGATOR Phase III trial for the potential new medicine tezepelumab in patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma. NAVIGATOR met the primary endpoint with tezepelumab added to standard of care (SoC) demonstrating a statistically significant and clinically — meaningful1 reduction in the annualised asthma […]
Round two! Adam Brody opened up about how his and Leighton Meester’s second child is already different than their first. Everything Pregnant Leighton Meester Has Said About Her Family With Adam Brody “The second one seems happier,” the actor, 40, told Dax Shepard on the Monday, November 2 episode of his “Armchair Expert” podcast. “I […]
Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have studied the role of the immune response in the development of glaucoma in mice. They showed that inflammatory processes are associated with the pathogenesis of the disease and that the extracellular matrix molecule tenascin-C plays a key role as a modulator of the immune response. Glaucoma is a common […]
