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Astronauts live in a practically weightless environment, scientifically known as microgravity. The effects of microgravity on the human body are various and fascinating some of them damaging, some redeeming.
New research finds a therapeutic purpose for the impact of microgravity on human stem cells. The study was published in the journal Stem Cells and Development. From the brain shifting upward to muscles shrinking, veins swelling, and astronauts' faces getting puffy, the effects of microgravity on the human body are fascinating.
Psoriasis is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but its effect on the course of cardiovascular disease remains unknown. The study show patients with hypertension and psoriasis more often required cardiovascular procedures and surgeries than hypertensive patients without psoriasis. The study was published in the Journal of Dermatology.
A policy change to Massachusetts' shelter eligibility was tied to increased pediatric emergency department visits for homelessness and substantial health care costs. The study was published in Pediatrics.
It's been 70 years since a small, middle-class community 23 miles west of Boston became the linchpin in helping to solve the mysteries of heart disease. Cholesterol Blood pressure. Obesity It's common knowledge today that these all lead to heart trouble.
But in the 1940s, with one in two deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and even after President Franklin Roosevelt died from the effects of heart failure and a massive stroke, the information would have been considered revolutionary.
Researchers indicate an association between bipolar disorder (BD), suicide attempts (SA), and aberrations in circadian rhythms, including a more vigorous circadian type, insomnia, and earlier daily activity. The study was published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.
Tissue engineering (TE) is an interdisciplinary field integrating engineering , material science and medical biology that aims to develop biological substitutes to repair, replace, retain, or enhance tissue and organ-level functions.
Current TE methods face obstacle including a lack of appropriate biomaterials, ineffective cell growth and lack of techniques for capturing appropriate physiological architectures as well as the unstable and insufficient production of growth factors to stimulate cell communication and proper response.
Researchers examined data on 7,385 adults 50 and older without a diagnosis of dementia or other conditions tied to cognitive problems and without hearing implants or ear infections. Overall, about 41% had a mild hearing loss, 10% had a severe hearing loss, and 11% used a hearing aid.
While age-related hearing loss has been linked to cognitive decline. The study suggests hearing aids may help minimize the risk of problems like impaired memory or executive function. People in the study who used hearing aids, however, were very different from those who did not use these devices.
The study was published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Diabetic patients are more likely to die from alcohol-related factors, accidents or suicide. The study was published in the European Journal Endocrinology. The study findings suggest that the increased risk of death from these causes may be related to the mental health of patients, which may be adversely affected by the psychological burden of living with and self-treating this debilitating disease, with powerful and certain disorders.
A multiyear clinical trial comparing medication and mental health in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder shows that patients who chose their form of treatment-whether drugs or therapy improved more than those who were simply prescribed one or the other regardless of the patient's preference. The study was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
This is the first large-scale trial of hundreds of PTSD patients, including veterans and survivors of sexual assault, to measure if a patient preference in the course of treatment with the effectiveness of a type of cognitive behavioral therapy and use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a type of antidepressant often prescribed for PTSD.
Many would be surprised that the term OTC doesn't exist as per Indian law. Neither the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 nor the Drugs & Cosmetics Rules, 1945 define OTC. Over-the-counter (OTC) medications that don't require a doctor's prescription to buy them have become a mainstay of Indian healthcare as most people self-medicate.
An app-based medical ambulance service , by health tech startup Ural EMS, has reecently launched-making it Bangladesh's first online emergency medical service to call ambulances in close proximity.
The new retrospective review of 17 patients with thoracic scoliosis who underwent previous spinal growth tethering (ASGT) has shed light on the subtleties involved in this technique. The study, " Previous Spinal Growth Tethering for Skeletally Immature Patients with Scoliosis: A Retrospective Look Two to Four Years Postoperatively," appears in the October 3, 2018 edition of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
