Medical News
Epilepsy research focused on astrocytes
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf) A significant number of epilepsy patients does not respond to currently available drugs. A collaboration between researchers in Japan and at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldo...
Newly discovered subset of brain cells fight inflammation with instructions from the gut
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) A team led by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, has shown that a specific astrocyte sub-population can do the opposite, instead serving a protective, anti-inflammatory function...
HIV treatment in Ethiopia is a 'socioeconomic challenge'
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Lund University) For those who are diagnosed and have begun treatment for HIV, it is standard practice to regularly monitor viral load in the blood to assess response to treatment. A study of people living with HIV in E...
Analysis details racial inequity and corrective strategies in research grant funding
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) An analysis by Nicholas Gilpin, PhD, Professor of Physiology and Associate Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School ...
Anthony S. Fauci to receive public welfare medal -- academy's most prestigious award
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Sciences is presenting its 2021 Public Welfare Medal to scientist, physician, and public health leader Anthony Fauci for his "decades-lo...
Aging-US: Growth factor beta type 1 and hypoxia-inducible factor 1 transcription complex
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Impact Journals LLC) "The Aging-US authors report for the first time that in human breast cancer, AML and embryonic cells, HIF-1 and AP-1 upregulate the expression of TGF-β"
Borderline personality disorder: Don't ignore it
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(University of Houston) Borderline Personality Disorder is treatable. New University of Houston research is the first to show that adolescent borderline pathology follows a similar downward course after discharge from in...
Aging-US: PAM (PIK3/AKT/mTOR) signaling in glia: potential contributions to brain tumors
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Impact Journals LLC) 'The consideration of aberrant PIK3/AKT/mTOR signaling in glia during aging elucidates several therapeutic opportunities for brain tumors'.
Childhood cancer survivors are not more likely to terminate their pregnancies
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Wiley) Study finds they have a reduced likelihood of becoming pregnant, however.
Domino effects and synchrony in seizure initiation
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) In a brain with a neurological disorder like epilepsy, synchronization between groups of neurons can grow to a dangerous extent when a collection of brain cells begins to ...
Drink and drug risk is lower among optimistic pupils with 'happy' memories, says study
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Taylor & Francis Group) Teenagers with happy childhood memories are likely to drink less, take fewer drugs and enjoy learning, according to research published in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction Research & Theory.
Biomarkers in mother's plasma predict a type of autism in offspring with 100% accuracy
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(University of California - Davis Health) UC Davis MIND Institute researchers used machine learning to crunch 10,000 autoantibody pattern combinations to identify maternal biomarkers associated with a sub-type of autism....
Fighting cancer from a chair
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Wiley) Cisplatin has been used to treat cancer since the 1970s. Since then, many other platinum-containing cytostatic drugs have been developed, such as triplatinNC, a highly charged complex that contains three ligand-b...
Finding a way to stop chemotherapy from damaging the heart
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Ohio State University) There could be an intervention on the horizon to help prevent heart damage caused by the common chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, new research suggests.
Fine tuning first-responder immune cells may reduce TBI damage
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Immediately after a traumatic brain injury and as long as one year later, there are increased levels of immune cells called ILCs in the brain promoting inflammation, whi...
First observation of the early link between proteins linked to Alzheimer's disease
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(University of Liege) Study conducted by researchers from the GIGA CRC In vivo Imaging laboratory at ULiège demonstrates, for the first time in humans, how the first deposits of tau proteins in the brainstem are associa...
Genome editing to treat human retinal degeneration
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Gene editing therapies, including CRISPR-Cas systems, offer the potential to correct mutations causing inherited retinal degenerations, a leading cause of blindness. Tech...
Governments need to set clear rules for vaccinating health care workers against COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(University of Ottawa) An analysis undertaken by Faculty of Law professors and a physician-researcher from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa feels provincial and territorial governments should set clear...
Biologists unravel full sequence of DNA repair mechanism
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(University of Iowa) Researchers led by the University of Iowa have observed the entire sequence in break-induced replication, a method by which organisms from viruses to humans repair breaks in DNA that cannot be fixed ...
High blood pressure during pregnancy may be a warning sign of life-threatening condition
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine) On Jan. 25-26, 2021, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) and the Preeclampsia Foundation will bring together leading national and international clinicians and researchers ...
Immune cells found in the brain are behind the depression experienced in inflammation
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(Linköping University) Special immune cells found in the brain, microglia, play a key role in the processes that make you feel uneasy and depressed in correlation with inflammation. This is the conclusion of a study usi...
Impact of patient-reported symptom information on lumbar spine MRI Interpretation
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2021 07:00
(American Roentgen Ray Society) According to an open-access article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), in lumbar spine MRI, presumptive pain generators diagnosed using symptom information from brief electr...