Future Science Group (FSG) today announced the publication of an article in Future Science OA demonstrating the first use of multispectral imaging in gynecology, in a uterine transplant setting.
The flu has been our viral companion for millennia, but its capricious behavior continues to confound scientists and public health experts.
Individuals with Lyme disease expressed frustration and anger about what they called the scientific and medical community's lack of seriousness and compassion about their illness, and delivered a wish list of prevention, treatment, and research priorities to a new federal committee charged with taking on the government's response to tick-borne disease.
Association between high BMI and survival benefit is confounded by comorbid conditions such as nutritional status and inflammation. Patients with AKI, particularly those receiving continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), are highly catabolic and more susceptible to loss of energy. Herein, researchers evaluated whether disease severity can modify the relationship between BMI and mortality.
Local administration of allogeneic expanded adipose-derived stem cells (Cx601) improves resolution of complex perianal fistulas in patients with Crohn's disease, according to results from the ADMIRE CD trial.
The existing health structure of India has an evolutionary history. India's health system can be divided into three distinct phases. The initial phase, 1947-1983, when healthcare initiatives were undertaken on two principles – none should be denied care despite the inability to pay, and it was the responsibility of the concerned state to provide healthcare to the people.
A study has revealed that it takes women aged over 65 the longest to arrive at the emergency department after the onset of myocardial infarction symptoms. As a consequence, valuable time is lost to reopen the occluded blood vessels and limit the damage to the myocardium.
A new study, led by Indiana University researchers, on neurochemical changes associated with alcohol addiction, found that the neurotransmitter glutamate plays a role in some alcohol cravings. The study was recently published in the Journal of Alcohol and Alcoholism.
New research from Europe showed cycling and mixing, two strategies for rotating antibiotics, do not differ significantly in their impact on the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria in the ICU. The study findings were published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases
With professional medical societies now considering infertility a disease, Buck Louis and colleagues conducted a study to assess parental health status including infertility and infant outcomes, such as gestation and birth size (weight, length, and head circumference).The study was published in Fertility and Sterility.
A new study has revealed that in children reporting sexual abuse, the rate of confirmation of the abuse based on material evidence during the forensic medical examination is low. For those reporting penetrations and in the case of pre-adolescents, the likelihood of obtaining confirmation is greater.
In this study, researchers established few methods to quantify Optic Nerve Head(ONH) and surrounding tissue changes using preflight and postflight optical coherence tomographic scans of the ONH region. Two separate analyses were done on retrospective data, with the first comparing a preflight group with a control group, followed by preflight to post-flight analysis.