When Bria Hutson was growing up in East Oakland, California, she had a routine. Every day after school, she and her friends would stop at a corner store and load up on chips, sodas and other junk food. The nearest grocery store was miles away and her mom didn’t drive. Everyone around her ate fast […]
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18, 2020 — People paralyzed with spinal cord injuries can safely and effectively use an exoskeleton to assist them in walking, a new study finds. “Participants showed improvement regardless of level of injury, completeness or duration of injury,” said Gail Forrest, director of the Tim and Caroline Reynolds Center for Spinal Stimulation at […]
A recent study has shown that it may be possible to dampen the workings of the subconscious brain to prevent alcohol relapse, the results leading to a world-first trial of a personalized smartphone app called “SWiPE.” Cognitive Bias Modification, a new form of computerized brain-training, is focused on training the brain to automatically avoid alcohol […]
Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center believe they’ve found a better of use of mobile technology to help adult cigarette smokers quit. In a large clinical trial published in JAMA Internal Medicine, a team led by Dr. Jonathan Bricker, a professor in Fred Hutch’s Public Health Sciences Division, tested the efficacy of the new […]
Doctors in Brazil, the country with the second-highest number of cases and deaths in the coronavirus pandemic, have a new tool in their fight against COVID-19: artificial intelligence to detect infections. Under-testing remains a huge problem in the sprawling South American country, but AI is helping fill the gap, thanks to a system called RadVid-19 […]
A new approach to better select breast cancer patients in need of urgent surgery or chemotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic has been developed by researchers at The Royal Marsden and the Breast Cancer Now Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, in collaboration with colleagues in the UK, Germany and US. The innovative […]
The osteoporosis wonder drug that helps rebuild crumbling bones and could save 500,000 people a year a visit to the fracture clinic More than three million Britons suffer from the brittle bone disease osteoporosis Some 500,000 osteoporosis sufferers are treated in hospital a year for fractures The condition often goes undetected until a sufferer starts […]
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America today released a white paper outlining strategies for documenting the recommendations of antibiotic stewardship programs (ASP) and clarifying the stewardship team’s role in patient care from a legal and quality improvement standpoint. The white paper, titled “Legal Implications of Antibiotic Stewardship Programs,” was published in the journal, Infection […]
New imaging technology allows scientists to see the widespread loss of brain synapses in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, a finding that one day may help aid in drug development, according to a new Yale University study. The research, published May 13 in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, compared the density […]
In order to plan a dental implant operation and the implant size and position, dentists need to know the exact location of the mandibular canal, a canal located in both sides of the lower jaw that contains the alveolar nerve. The lower jaw is an anatomically complex structure and medical experts use X-ray and computer […]
