Medical News
1 in 10 college women experience period poverty, more likely to experience depression
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(George Mason University) New George Mason University study is first to examine unmet basic menstrual health needs, (often called 'period poverty') and associations with depression among college students. More than 14% o...
American Gastroenterological Association announces 2021 AGA recognition prizes
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(American Gastroenterological Association) The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has announced the 2021 recipients of its annual recognition prizes, given in honor of outstanding contributions and achievemen...
Automated imaging detects and tracks brain protein involved in Alzheimer's disease
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(Massachusetts General Hospital) Applying an automated method to brain images revealed where deposits of tau, a protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease, first emerge in the cerebral cortex. Tau deposits in this tiny re...
CU Denver researcher studies international cooperation in fighting COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Colorado Denver) A University of Colorado Denver researcher released a study looking at how a more global approach would have far-reaching societal benefits in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cancer research expands body's own immune system to kill tumors
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(American Institute of Physics) Scientists are hoping advances in cancer research could lead to a day when a patient's own immune system could be used to fight and destroy a wide range of tumors. Cancer immunotherapy has...
Combining PD-1inhibitor with VEGF inhibitor in chemotherapy of cholangiocarcinoma patient
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(Bentham Science Publishers) Cholangiocarcinoma is the second most frequent liver cancer. Many patients miss the opportunity of having a surgery performed on them and its control has always been considered difficult. Her...
Coral decline -- is sunscreen a scapegoat?
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) A recent paper in the journal of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (ET&C) summarizes the scientific literature assessing the impact of organic UV filters on coral ...
Decision-support tool could reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for child diarrhoea
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(eLife ) A decision-support tool that could be accessed via mobile devices may help clinicians in lower-resource settings avoid unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for children with diarrhoea, a study published today in...
Dementia rates higher in men with common genetic disorder haemochromatosis
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(University of Exeter) New research has found that men who have the Western world's most common genetic disorder are more likely to develop dementia, compared to those without the faulty genes.
HCCI launches new, expanded dataset
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(Health Care Cost Institute) The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) today announced the launch of its new, 1 billion claim per year commercial health care dataset for research.
Imaging identifies breast cancer patients unlikely to benefit from hormone therapy
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(Washington University School of Medicine) Hormone therapy can be very effective for so-called estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. But it only works for a little more than half of women who receive the treatment. I...
In survey of those with uncontrolled asthma, half smoked cannabis
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology) A new survey in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology shows that of those who used cannabis, about half smoked it while a third vaped - both 'inhalation routes' li...
Iron release may contribute to cell death in heart failure
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(eLife ) A process that releases iron in response to stress may contribute to heart failure, and blocking this process could be a way of protecting the heart, suggests a study in mice published today in eLife.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual medical students are more likely to experience burnout, study finds
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(Brown University) Burnout among medical students has significant implications for student health and delivery of care, and future physicians in sexual minority groups report higher rates of burnout than their heterosexu...
Modeling the brain during pain processing
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(Springer) Through new research published in EPJ B, researchers show that inhibitory interneurons, which prevent chemical messages from passing between different regions of the brain, make up 20% of the circuitry in the ...
Moffitt researchers identify why CAR T therapy may fail in some lymphoma patients
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) In a new study published in Blood, the official journal of the American Society of Hematology, Moffitt researchers show that immune dysregulation can directly affect th...
NYUAD researchers propose programming to support adolescent mothers in areas of conflict
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(New York University) In a new paper titled A Bioecocultural Approach to Supporting Adolescent Mothers and their Young Children in Conflict Affected Contexts, published in the journal Development and Psychopathology, Glo...
Nearly all telehealth appointments at clinics for lower-income Americans were audio-only
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(RAND Corporation) The use of telehealth has skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic as insurers and the federal government agreed to pay for more remote care. A new study finds that most telehealth appointments at c...
Neuromuscular disease registry helps patients access research, clinical trials, new genetic tests, and therapies
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(IOS Press) Amsterdam, February 2, 2021 - The Canadian Neuromuscular Disease Registry (CNDR) was launched in 2010 to increase efficient patient access to cutting-edge research and clinical trials, to increase understandi...
Opioid prescriptions remained elevated two years after critical care
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(Karolinska Institutet) Nearly 11 percent of people admitted to an ICU in Sweden between 2010 and 2018 received opioid prescriptions on a regular basis for at least six months and up to two years after discharge. That is...
Potential drug target found for treating rare genetic disorder in children
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(eLife ) Scientists have identified a potential new treatment approach for Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), a progressive genetic disorder that causes rapid and premature aging in children.
Providing inclusive care for LGBTQ2SPIA+ cancer patients
EurekAlert! - 2 Feb 2021 07:00
(Elsevier) In an upcoming issue of the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, published by Elsevier, undergraduate researchers from the University of Alberta's Radiation Therapy Program in the Faculty of Medi...