Could something as simple as a certain type of sugar water be medicine for perforated bones, and even bone marrow cancer itself? Inside our bodies are some jellyfish-like cells that actually eat away at our bones. Every year, they eat about ten percent of the bone mass in our body. Fortunately, other cells usually follow […]
What is the difference between a doctor of medicine (an M.D.) and a doctor of osteopathic medicine (a D.O.)? It’s a question many Americans may be asking after learning that Dr. Sean Conley, who is managing President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 care, is a D.O. and not an M.D. The first thing to know is that […]
Scientists affiliated with leading research institutions across the U.S. state in a letter published Monday in the journal Science that researchers across disciplines must converge to deliver clear public health guidance about how SARS-CoV-2 is spread in the air. The researchers write in the open letter that the scientific community must clarify the terminology used […]
Girls—but not boys—who participate actively in school sports activities in middle childhood show improved behavior and attentiveness in early adolescence, suggests a new Canadian study published in Preventative Medicine. “Girls who do regular extracurricular sports between ages 6 and 10 show fewer symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at age 12, compared to girls who seldom […]
David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor and vice chair for research affairs in the Department of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the George W. Jacoby Award from the American Neurological Association for his discoveries on the role of the immune system in brain […]
(HealthDay)—Rates of ambulatory heart failure remained steady in the United States between 2001 and 2016, according to a study published online Sept. 2 in JAMA Cardiology. Leah Rethy, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues examined the prevalence of ambulatory heart failure overall and by race/ethnicity and age, as well […]
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Colorectal cancer is more prevalent among Black people, a group that has the highest rates of death for an illness that is curable if caught early. “The unfortunate reality is that minorities, especially Black people, have a much lower chance of getting lifesaving cancer treatment. Health care works within a social construct, and to change […]
Salk scientists have used skin cells called fibroblasts from young and old patients to successfully create blood vessels cells that retain their molecular markers of age. The team’s approach, described in the journal eLife on September 8, 2020, revealed clues as to why blood vessels tend to become leaky and hardened with aging, and lets […]
Sweden’s Public Health Agency said Tuesday a faulty test kit had returned some 3,700 false positive results, an error discovered by two laboratories during routine quality controls. The agency said the PCR kits, which test for an ongoing COVID-19 infection, were made in China by the company BGI Genomics and had been distributed worldwide. In […]
