Sports Medicine; In this study longtime Lakers guard a championed scorer and notorious competitor was taking his Utah Jazz defenders to task, shouldering into the lane for a contested running on one possession, then crossing into a deep three-pointer on the next. Bryant’s attack, in what would be his final game in the NBA, accumulated…
Marijuana; In this study French economists recommended legalising marijuana, arguing it would add billions to state coffers, but President Emmanuel Macron’s government again ruled out letting recreational users get legally high. The French Council of Economic Analysis (CAE), a body task with advising the government on policy; so note that despite having some of Europe’s…
A new study brings the connection between statin use and risk of glaucoma into sharper focus. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that using statins for five or more years is associate; with lower risk of primary open-angle glaucoma. Results of the study were publish recently in JAMA Ophthalmology. Glaucoma, a leading cause…
Antibiotic-resistant infections; With antimicrobial resistance on the rise, many infections once easily treated are becoming fatal. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) is to blame for more than 5% of all deaths attributed to antibiotic-resistant infection in the U.S., second only to MRSA. Researchers are now exploring whether they could repurpose some drugs; but which have already approving…
As HIV itself attacks and destroys CD4 helper cells; the study raises concerns regarding whether this drug class is the best long term choice for HIV treatment. Interestingly, other HIV drugs including protease inhibitors or reverse transcriptase inhibitors or drug combinations did not show these effects and vigilance. Chronic HIV infection results in progressive exhaustion of…
The researches find that the Inguinal hernia is one of the most common general surgical conditions in the world, with an estimated 220 million cases and 20 million surgeries performed annually. Inguinal hernia occurs when tissue; but like part of the intestine, pushes through a weak spot in the abdominal wall and into the groin…
We all hope and probably expect that clinicians use only mental health therapies that are scientifically proven to improve symptoms. A new study from Penn Medicine and Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health; and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) shows that, unfortunately, evidence-based therapies to treat youth with mental health problems are slow to catch on. Specifically,…
Researchers from the University of Turku have discovered a new route that transports subcutaneously administered antibodies into lymph nodes in just a few seconds. The discovery enables targeted therapies for the immune system. Many of the immune defence reactions are launch in the lymph nodes. For instance, small, foreign molecules that pass through the skin…
The militia groups are very likely involved in these attacks, but locals too may be involved, motivated by suspicion and fear. This happened at the height of the West African outbreak in uganda, when villagers attacked a group of health professionals trying to teach Ebola prevention techniques in rural Guinea, killing eight. The ongoing outbreak…
Lung nodule; A risk prediction model developed using clinical and radiological features could stratify individuals presenting with a lung nodule as having high or low risk for lung cancer. The study is publish in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, by Barbara Nemesure, Ph.D., director of the Cancer Prevention…
According to the model, the Kasese district was the highest risk area for an infecting person to enter the country. The researchers using; the model to create a 150 day simulation of possible disease progression in Uganda; and producing a map of 23 Ugandan districts at risk. Since study consider movement data in addition to…
The structure of important enzymes in human cells that alter essential building blocks of the cellular cytoskeleton; and this revealing the missing part of a cycle; that regulating the build up or breakdown of supporting elements of the Cytoskeleton cell. The enzymes investigated work as molecular scissors and can be involving in the development of…