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Men at greater risk of major health effects of diabetes than women, study suggests
Men are at greater risk than women of the major health effects of diabetes (types 1 and 2), proposes a long term study published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Rates of...
Number of people experiencing poor health, early death from metabolism-related risk factors has increased since 2000
The latest findings from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021, published in The Lancet, provide new insights into health challenges and the risk factors that...
Global life expectancy projected to increase by nearly 5 years by 2050 despite various threats
The latest findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021, published in The Lancet, forecast that global life expectancy will increase by 4.9 years in males and 4.2 years in females ...
Primary health coverage found to have prevented more than 300,000 child deaths in four Latin American countries
The implementation of primary health care (PHC) over the last two decades has prevented more than 300,000 child deaths in four Latin American countries, and could prevent more than 140,000 by 203...
Likelihood of kids and young people smoking and vaping linked to social media use
The more time spent on social media, the greater the likelihood that children and young people will both smoke and/or vape, suggests research published online in the respiratory journal Thorax. C...
Quality improvement initiative boosts early HPV vaccine rates
A multipronged primary care quality improvement initiative increases early human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine initiation across racial/ethnic, sociodemographic, insurance, and geographic groups, ...
https://healthmedicinet.com/quality-improvement-initiative-boosts-early-hpv-vaccine-rates/
Tobacco corporation attempts to gain public trust in its science are having success, new research finds
A new study suggests that the tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI), is successfully increasing public trust in industry-funded science by portraying itself as a generous supporter of...
Study uses machine learning to predict opioid use disorder treatment interruptions
University of Florida researchers have developed a system designed to identify patients at high risk of discontinuing buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder. An FDA-approved prescription...
First US trial of varenicline for e-cigarette cessation shows positive results
Benjamin Toll, Ph.D., Lisa Fucito, Ph.D., and colleagues developed a clinical trial for e-cigarette cessation that was meant to mimic real-world conditions. Credit: Medical University of South Ca...
New findings on the effects of gluten
An electron transmission micrograph from the study shows the problematic peptide 33-mer DGP with spiky structures that can open the intestinal barrier. Credit: Bielefeld University Today is Inter...
https://healthmedicinet.com/new-findings-on-the-effects-of-gluten/
Study shows vicious cycle of protein clumping in Alzheimer’s disease and normal aging
Amyloid ? accelerates age-related proteome-wide protein insolubility. Credit: GeroScience (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s11357-024-01169-1 It has long been known that a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, ...
Global study reports assisted reproduction treatments are safe in young breast cancer survivors with high-risk genes
Micrograph showing a lymph node invaded by ductal breast carcinoma, with extension of the tumor beyond the lymph node. Credit: Nephron/Wikipedia Assisted reproductive techniques (ART) in young wo...
Offering both colonoscopy and at-home tests to study patients doubled colorectal cancer screening
Credit: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2024.04.003 The rate of colorectal cancer screenings more than doubled when patients were given a choice between which ...
Researcher discusses changing the pregnancy culture to ‘eating for you,’ not for two
Leanne Redman, Ph.D., director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Women’s Health Laboratory at Pennington Biomedical. Credit: Pennington Biomedical Research Center For many generations, soci...
Discovery of a master neuron that controls movement in worms has implications for human disease
AVA and AVB have distinct membrane potential ranges and dynamics. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk0002 Researchers at Sinai Health and the University of Toronto have uncov...
Research looks at how loneliness and mental health problems are interconnected
In a new study, researchers looked at whether lonely people are more prone to problems such as depression and psychosis. Based on medication use, the correlation is clear. “We have found a corr...
Experts provide disparity-sensitive measures for transplant centers
An Expert Insight, published in the journal Transplantation, highlights health equity, disparity and inequality in organ transplantation along the continuum of care and across organ types. The au...
https://healthmedicinet.com/experts-provide-disparity-sensitive-measures-for-transplant-centers/
Many people are not aware of the health risks
Many people are concerned about residues of chemicals, contaminants or microplastics in their food. However, it is less well known that many foods also contain toxins of completely natural origin...
https://healthmedicinet.com/many-people-are-not-aware-of-the-health-risks/
Review explores cell-based immunotherapies for sepsis
Cell-based therapies can potentially restore normal immune function and treat organ failure in sepsis. Medical researchers have embarked on clinical trials and pre-clinical studies to investigate...
https://healthmedicinet.com/review-explores-cell-based-immunotherapies-for-sepsis/
Evaluating a mobile app as a training tool to detect skin diseases
Radar chart evaluation of each app’s objective quality domain according to the user version of the Mobile Application Rating Scale (uMARS), with results divided by country. Credit: Journal of M...
https://healthmedicinet.com/evaluating-a-mobile-app-as-a-training-tool-to-detect-skin-diseases/
Imaging fibrous structure abnormalities of the white of the eye in myopathic patients
Researchers from Japan successfully applied polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) to assess various properties of the collagen fibers that make up the sclera, the outer whi...
Exercise should be prescribed for people with Parkinson’s
No pharmacological medication currently available can cure or slow down Parkinson’s disease. However, based on an extensive literature review recently published in the journal Journal of Neurol...
https://healthmedicinet.com/exercise-should-be-prescribed-for-people-with-parkinsons/
Longer screening intervals are safe with low baseline prostate-specific antigen
Number of men with a screen-positive PSA test result and with a prostate cancer diagnosis according to the baseline PSA value. For men with baseline PSA <1.5, the screening round 5 yr later was a...
US proposes reclassifying marijuana as low-risk drug
US President Joe Biden’s administration formally proposed on Thursday reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift that would bring federal policy more in line with public...
https://healthmedicinet.com/us-proposes-reclassifying-marijuana-as-low-risk-drug/
Risk perception influenced less by media than previously thought: Study
For decades, researchers have assumed that people overestimate the risk of dramatic causes of death, such as road traffic accidents. The reason given for this was that such deaths are the subject...
https://healthmedicinet.com/risk-perception-influenced-less-by-media-than-previously-thought-study/
Machine learning method for predicting glioma mutations shows promise for personalized treatment
Representative case of the independent internal patient cohort shows a 54-year-old male patient who suffered from an IDH-mutated oligodendroglioma WHO grade 2 that was correctly classified by all...
Examining the mechanisms and clinical potential of a promising non-opioid pain therapy candidate
SRP-001’s absent hepatotoxicity is due to lack of NAPQI formation and maintenance of hepatic tight junction integrity. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61791-z A recen...
Study identifies ‘hot-spots’ of high rates of depression linked to deprivation
Research led by the University of Southampton shows particular regions of England have suffered over a decade of increasing mental health inequalities, but finds the picture varies greatly across...
Many cardiovascular deaths are due to an unbalanced diet, study finds
Wholegrain products and legumes. Credit: Nicole Nerger In Europe, 1.55 million people die every year due to a poor diet. This is the conclusion of a recent study by Friedrich Schiller University ...
https://healthmedicinet.com/many-cardiovascular-deaths-are-due-to-an-unbalanced-diet-study-finds/
Progress in genetic testing in congenital heart disease
The coverage of variants yielded by testing technologies is indicated. Structural variants may entail duplications, deletions, and unbalanced insertions, while positional changes may involve bala...
https://healthmedicinet.com/progress-in-genetic-testing-in-congenital-heart-disease/
Adverse social determinants of health linked to treatment-resistant hypertension in Black Americans
Proportion of REGARDS study participants developing aTRH by number of adverse social determinants of health, overall. Credit: Journal of the American Heart Association (2024). DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.1...
Who should be screened for skin cancer?
Dr. Collin Costello checks for skin cancer. Credit: Mayo Clinic Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. Each year, more than 6 million adults are treated for skin cancer, according to t...
https://healthmedicinet.com/who-should-be-screened-for-skin-cancer/
Maui residents face health decline, access struggles after wildfire, new report finds
MauiWES testing and survey event in February 2024. Credit: University of Hawaii at Manoa Nearly half of the Maui residents affected by the fires experienced a decline in health compared to a year...
Study finds brain wiring predicted adolescents’ emotional health during COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic was challenging for many adolescents, disrupting their schooling and social/emotional development. Drawing on national data, a large study finds that how adolescents’ brai...
Judges and physicians have different views about appointing a legal guardian for people with dementia, finds study
Distribution of legal experts’ answers. Credit: European Journal of Neurology (2024). DOI: 10.1111/ene.16334 Dementia often leads to the appointment of a legal guardian for the individual affec...
Biomarker could improve prediction of response to immunotherapy in melanoma
SHOX2 ccfDNAm and its association with survival in melanoma patients treated with palliative immunotherapy. Credit: Clinical Chemistry (2024). DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/hvad230 If melanoma spreads, t...
New gene delivery vehicle shows promise for human brain gene therapy
In an important step toward more effective gene therapies for brain diseases, researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have engineered a gene-delivery vehicle that uses a human pro...
https://healthmedicinet.com/new-gene-delivery-vehicle-shows-promise-for-human-brain-gene-therapy/
Researchers discover new pathway to cancer cell death from chemotherapy
Organoid of a patient with colon cancer, treated (right) and not treated with the chemotherapy etoposide. The treatment causes DNA damage and a reduction in protein synthesis. This triggers a str...
https://healthmedicinet.com/researchers-discover-new-pathway-to-cancer-cell-death-from-chemotherapy/
Under stress, study finds an observer is more likely to help the victim than to punish the perpetrator
Acute stress decreased the third party’s willingness to punish the violator and the severity of the punishment, and increased their willingness to help the victim. Created with Adobe Illustrato...
Genetics, environment and health disparities linked to increased stress and mental health challenges during adolescence
Allostatic load quantification in the ABCD Study. a, Bifactor configuration of AL. Values represent loadings to each factor shown on the arrows pointing to individual measures. Measures of the mo...
Diabetes medication risk in aged care revealed
An Australian-first study by the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) investigating the use of blood sugar-lowering medications among residents with diabetes in aged care homes nationwide, has r...
https://healthmedicinet.com/diabetes-medication-risk-in-aged-care-revealed/
Study suggests high-frequency electrical ‘noise’ results in congenital night blindness
Credit: King-Wai Yau Laboratory In what they believe is a solution to a 30-year biological mystery, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used genetically engineered mice to add...
Abortion bans made Minnesota a health care island. Could the same happen with IVF?
Meta Getman and her husband had spent more than three years struggling with infertility—including four rounds of intrauterine insemination (IUI), three rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) an...
Unintentional drowning rates higher in 2020, 2021, 2022 than 2019
Unintentional drowning rates were higher in 2020, 2021, and 2022 than in 2019 and are highest among children aged 1 to 4 years, according to research published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly R...
https://healthmedicinet.com/unintentional-drowning-rates-higher-in-2020-2021-2022-than-2019/
These parents won’t have another
by Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section. The first-time mother, a high school ...
https://healthmedicinet.com/these-parents-wont-have-another/
Hep C infection poses global public health threat to reproductive-age women
Both acute hepatitis C (AHC) and hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related cirrhosis incidence were up substantially globally from 1990 to 2019 in reproductive-aged women, according to a study published on...
FDA approves first self-test collection kit for HPV
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a kit that will allow women to collect their own vaginal sample for HPV screening, a move that could increase early detection in those at risk f...
https://healthmedicinet.com/fda-approves-first-self-test-collection-kit-for-hpv/
Neuroplasticity study shows how singing rehabilitates speech production in post-stroke aphasia
Treatment-induced WM neuroplasticity changes. Connectometry results displaying the significant segments of the tracts with longitudinal QA increases significantly associated with singing group ve...
Miniaturized optical coherence tomography imaging probe takes pictures inside cerebral arteries
Intravascular imaging using neuro optical coherence tomography (nOCT). The nOCT probe is compatible with standard neurovascular microcatheters, integrating with the procedural workflow used in cl...
The importance of the rhythmicity of the immune system for tumor growth
Credit: Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.04.015 By examining the immune modulations of tumors during the day, scientists from the University of Geneva and the LMU Munich are demonstrating th...
https://healthmedicinet.com/the-importance-of-the-rhythmicity-of-the-immune-system-for-tumor-growth/
End-of-life systemic treatment for patients with advanced cancers does not improve survival, finds study
Patients with very advanced solid tumors saw no significant improvement in overall survival after receiving systemic therapy, according to a study published in JAMA Oncology by researchers at The...
Consistent exercise changes how saturated fat is used by the body, study finds
Volunteers rode exercise bikes as part of the the trial. Credit: University of Aberdeen An active lifestyle can change how the body burns saturated and unsaturated fat according to new research f...
Link between COVID-19 vaccine complication and rare ‘common cold’ blood disease
Shared fingerprints of anti-PF4 antibodies in VITT and VITT-like disorders after adenovirus infection. Credit: New England Journal of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2402592 New research led b...
Research explains new method to engineer immune cells that could treat multiple cancer patients
A microscopy image shows an enhanced natural killer T cell (blue) attacking a human multiple myeloma cell (magenta). Credit: Lili Yang lab/UCLA Immunotherapies have revolutionized cancer treatmen...
‘Trojan Horse’ weight loss drug found to be more effective than available therapies
In a study published in Nature, Christoffer Clemmensen and colleagues demonstrate a new use of the weight loss hormone GLP-1. GLP-1 can be used as a “Trojan Horse” to smuggle a specific molec...
Researchers identify immunosuppressive pathway that helps newborn hearts regenerate in mouse models
PD-1 is required for neonatal heart regeneration. Credit: Nature Cardiovascular Research (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44161-024-00447-7 When the heart is injured, as in a myocardial infarction, the dama...
Simple learning test may be used to diagnose autism at just six months of age
Credit: PLOS ONE (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300274 A combined team of psychologists from the University of Milano-Bicocca and the Scientific Institute, IRCCS E. Medea, Child Psychopatholo...
Study indicates the rapid identification of stroke type is key to improving outcomes
Early identification of stroke type could be key to harnessing the benefits of very early in-ambulance blood pressure lowering treatment in patients with suspected acute stroke, according to new ...
Cream cheese from Aldi, Hy-vee stores recalled due to salmonella risk
Two major supermarket chains, Aldi and Hy-Vee, are recalling brands of cream cheese because of a potential risk for salmonella. No actual illnesses linked to the products have yet been reported, ...
https://healthmedicinet.com/cream-cheese-from-aldi-hy-vee-stores-recalled-due-to-salmonella-risk/
Researchers develop theory on traveling waves of activity in the human brain
Computer brain simulation. Credit: Brain Simulation Section, BIH, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin For the first time, researchers led by Professor Dr. Petra Ritter’s team have succeede...