Cardiovascular Disease; Progress in reducing cardiovascular disease is stalling in the United States. Development of new ways of preventing and treating cardiovascular disease has proved frustrating recently with several trials of promising interventions, such as vitamin D and anti-inflammatories, failing at a late stage. Moreover, shorter lives in men than women, partly due to higher…
Cochlea; Until now, the part of the ear that processes speech was poorly reflect in computer models; but University of Michigan researchers have figure out the math that describes how it works which could help improve hearing tests and devices that restore some hearing to the deaf. Inside the ear, a snail-shaped organ called the cochlea…
The push by rheumatologists to switch patients with rheumatoid arthritis from biologics to biosimilars; will likely gain momentum in the coming year, fueled by potential cost savings, an expert predicted here at the European League Against Rheumatism 2019 Congress. “Very substantial cost savings are possible despite the high costs of biosimilar development. We all know…
Drug and alcohol addiction are a major health concern worldwide, and notoriously difficult to treat. But several research groups; including my own have been studying the biology of addiction using laboratory animals; in particular, zebrafish, to understand the underlying processes. The effects of pollution on behaviour is currently a growing area of concern amongst environmental…
Decisions to prescribe children drugs to treat chronic pain are not guided by sufficient; high quality evidence, according to an important new study. As part of a special collection of systematic reviews in the Cochrane Library and recently summarised in the journal PAIN; the overview highlights a dearth of information available about treating childhood chronic…
Physicians need more education about breast density and breast cancer screening, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Women’s Health. Jordonna Brown, M.B.B.S., from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and colleagues survey local physicians (primary care providers [PCPs], radiologists, and gynecologists) regarding knowledge, attitudes, and practices…
The researchers may have found a better way to predict the effectiveness and side effects of blood pressure drugs; and it doesn’t involve taking a single pill. Instead, it relies on genetics. In a new study published Tuesday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation; researchers tapped into a large genetic database in the United Kingdom to…
Keeping physically active or becoming more active during middle and older age is associated with a lower risk of death, regardless of past activity levels or existing health conditions, suggests a large UK study publish by The BMJ today. At the population level, meeting and maintaining at least the minimum public health recommendations (150 minutes…
The researches find that the general anesthesia may be associated with neurocognitive impairment and brain imaging abnormalities in long-term survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); according to a study published online June 20 in JAMA Oncology. Therefore Anesthesia, or anaesthesia (see spelling differences; from Greek αν-, an-, “without”; and αἲσθησις, aisthēsis; “sensation”); has traditionally meant…
The researches find that the Teagasc research shows that loss of body fat causes the growth of the intestine and increases its capacity to absorb nutrients. Therefore This presents new approaches for weight management. Therefore Researchers at Teagasc and the University of Aberdeen have found that the depletion of fat stores inside ; the body…
Lung Cancer; In a study published online in Nature on June 26, research teams led by Dr. Yang Weiwei at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Dr. Li Guohui from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of CAS reported a new function of uridine diphosphate glucose…
Orthopedic surgeons are the third-highest physician prescribers of opioids; writing more than 6 million prescriptions a year. Because over-dispensing of opioids is a factor contributing to the ongoing opioid epidemic; researchers at Johns Hopkins survey orthopedic providers to better understand; what drives their prescribing practices and to identify gaps in knowledge and potentially worrisome trends.…