High-field micro-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning may provide additional information for quantitative analysis of graft bone healing processes, thus serving as a promising supplementary method in graft and bone healing evaluation following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) surgery during preclinical studies.
Health officials are looking at a possible link between prescription opioids and a horrific birth defect. When a baby is born with its intestines hanging outside the stomach, due to a hole in the abdominal wall, it is called gastroschisis. Most are repaired through surgery.
Sexual function in severely obese women improves after bariatric surgery, researchers in Brazil say. Dr. Ubirajara Barroso Jr. of Universidade Federal da Bahia and colleagues studied sexual function before and six months after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in 62 obese women
Treatment with gabapentin improves sexual function in women with persistent, unexplained pain in the vulva (vulvodynia) who have increased pelvic muscle pain on examination. Previous studies have suggested gabapentin reduces the pain of fibromyalgia.
ESport teams require preventive care, injury treatment protocols, according to a study in the British Journal of Medicine. With more than 80 US colleges offering varsity eSport teams, physicians writing in the British Journal of Medicine say collegiate players should be treated as athletes, with an appropriate level of medical care to promote continuing health.
A new drug shows potential to halt cancer cells' growth by stunting the cells' biological clock. The findings from scientists at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience and Nagoya University's Institute of Transformative BioMolecules (ITbM) advance a burgeoning area of research: turning the body's circadian rhythms against cancer.
The implants developed by TPU scientists passed preclinical trials In the Ilizarov Orthopedic Center (Kurgan, Russia). These implants form part of the Ilizarov system variation applied for lengthening and correcting the deformations of long tubular bones in children. During the preclinical tests, Tomsk implants made it possible to reduce the terms of limb lengthening two times. The outcomes of research and tests were published in the journal Biomedical Materials.
The FinnGen study, launched in autumn 2017, is a broad academic-industrial collaboration between the Finnish biobanks and their respective Universities, University Hospitals, the Institute of Health and Welfare (THL), the Finnish Red Cross Blood Service and now nine international pharmaceutical companies. The study is funded by the industrial partners and Business Finland.
Exposure to certain chemicals such as phthalates, parabens or bisphenol A could be associated with a decrease in blood pressure during pregnancy. This is one of the main conclusions of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and published recently in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health.
The social disruption that results from natural disasters often interrupts children's schooling. However, we know little about how children's learning is affected in the years after a disaster. A new study looked at changes in children's academic performance after major bushfires in Australia.
Researchers have taken a step closer to understanding the body's response to opioid painkillers such as morphine and fentanyl, which could lead to the development of safer opioid drugs.
For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are positive for rheumatoid factor (RF), anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA), or other risk factors, denosumab may be useful for inhibiting bone erosion, according to results published in Rheumatology.