In a commentary published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, public health researchers suggest adjustments to recently proposed rule changes on how Medicare pays for dialysis services. Medicare spends approximately $35 billion annually on care for beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease (kidney failure), more than 7 % of Medicare’s total paid claims. End-stage renal disease…
Some people who are overweight report that they eat no more than slender friends and exercise just as much; but still can’t drop pounds. Now researchers think they know why this experience is entirely possible; an explanation they hope will help destigmatize obesity and offer new paths to prevent a condition linked with killers including…
In the Americas, primate species likely to harbor Zika — and potentially transmit the virus — are common, abundant, and often live near people. So reports a new study published in Epidemics. Findings are based on an innovative model developed by a collaborative team of researchers from Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and IBM Research through…
Ansamycins are a class of bioactive macrolides that have isolated from actinomycetes. The most representatives of them are geldanamycin with HSP90 inhibitory activity, rifamycin with antibacterial activity; maytansinoid with anticancer activity. Divergolides represent a family of ansamycins with a 19-membered naphthalenic ansamacrolactam skeleton; which was first discovered from Streptomyces sp. HKI0576 and reported in 2011.…
They are to issue a Call for Abstracts for the 35th annual American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) conference. The meeting will take place 20 – 23 November 2019 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown, Denver, CO. The annual ASGSR meeting provides a forum for the Life and Physical Sciences communities; to meet and…
It’s one of the great mysteries of medicine, and one that affects the lives of millions of people: Why do women’s immune systems gang up on them far more than men’s do, causing nine times more women to develop autoimmune diseases such as lupus Part of the answer, it turns out, may lie in the…
Fungus commonly found in human hair follicles also resides in the gut, where it may worsen intestinal disorders such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in patients with a certain genetic makeup, researchers report March 5 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe. Malassezia yeasts found in oily skin and scalp follicles are link to skin conditions,…
In order to understand the brain, scientists must be able to see the brain; cell by cell, and moment by moment. However, because brains comprise billions of microscopic moving parts, faithfully recording their activity comes with many challenges. In dense mammalian brains, for example, it is difficult to track rapid cellular changes; across multiple brain…
The commonly used diabetes drug metformin could reverse the harmful thickening of heart muscle that leads to cardiovascular disease, according to a study at the University of Dundee. Scientists led by Professor Chim Lang, Head of the Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine at Dundeep; so discover that metformin has the potential to be repurpose as…