Each year, women in the U.S. rely on some 20 million home pregnancy tests to learn potentially life-altering news. Despite marketing claims that such tests are 99 % accurate, over the past decade has shown that up to 5 % of pregnancy tests return results indicating a woman is not pregnant when, in reality, she…
The goal of cancer therapy is to destroy the cancer cells while minimizing side effects and damage to the rest of the body. Common types of treatment include surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy and radiation therapy. Often combined with surgery or drugs, radiation therapy uses high-energy X-rays to harm the DNA and other critical processes of the rapidly-dividing cancer cells.…
Embryonic stem cells (ESC) have the ability to self-renew, and, being pluripotent have the potential to create almost any cell type in the body. So, the embryonic stem cell state is; established and maintained; by multiple regulatory networks; that include epigenetic regulators; the function of these epigenetic regulators; though has not; been well-defined. However, an…
The chronic disease cases have been growing in India due to the modern lifestyles and changing food habits. Medapp – a healthcare service provider united around a mission of touching lives; changing lives and saving lives; set to change the way people manage health on a day-to-day basis. The company has already touched millions of…
Researchers from the University of Michigan describe the new device in The Optical Society (OSA) journal Biomedical Optics Express. The endoscope is used for photoacoustic imaging, a relatively new biomedical imaging method that uses light to produce sound waves in tissue that can be captured with ultrasound imaging. Photoacoustic imaging “This new imaging technology could help…
The updated recommendations on the radiologic diagnosis and treatment of colorectal carcinoma (CRC) were released in April 2019 by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies, German Cancer Society, and the German Cancer Aid. Asymptomatic patients should not undergo computed tomography (CT) colonography and magnetic resonance (MR) colonography for colon cancer protection/early detection. Colonography for colon…
It was April 1999 when the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado shock a nation. Video of students desperately sprinting from the school to safety under the watch of arm police flood televisions across the nation. Images from such events and thoughts of the people who died can trigger strong emotions for people…
Sleep deprivation, also as insufficient sleep, is the condition of not having enough sleep. It can either chronic or acute and may vary widely in severity. A chronic sleep-restricted state can cause fatigue, daytime sleepiness, clumsiness, and weight gain. It adversely affects the brain and cognitive function. However, in a subset of cases sleep deprivation can, paradoxically, lead to increased energy and alertness…
When it comes to marketing electronic cigarettes to young people, fake news appears to stick. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration currently requires a prominent warning about the dangers of nicotine for e-cigarettes. But just before that mandate, a 2017 campaign by e-cigarette maker blu; included fake warnings in precisely the place; the real warnings…
Despondent, Akon Mathiong points to two small mounds of dirt where she buried her grandsons, 4 and 5 years old, last month. They died after contracting measles in one of the worst-hit areas of South Sudan’s latest outbreak. “Every time I see the graves I feel like crying,” Mathiong said. The family said the boys…
Researchers at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM) have utilized a machine-learning process and clinical natural language processing (CNLP) to diagnose rare genetic diseases in record time. This new method is speeding answers to physicians caring for infants in intensive care and opening the door to increased use of genome sequencing as a first-line…
A new study confirms that a simple blood test can reveal; whether there is accelerating nerve cell damage in the brain. However, the researchers analysed neurofilament light protein (NFL) in blood samples from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. So, recently published in JAMA Neurology, the study suggests that the NFL concentration in the blood could be…