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The good news is heart failure in people with severe obesity may be reversible with common weight loss drugs. The bad news is both obesity,...
GLP-1 receptor agonists are effective in helping most people lose weight, and now a new study suggests that in those with severe obesity, a...
There’s a relationship between severe obesity and one type of heart failure, and it looks like it’s mediated by adding more phosphate groups...
Severe obesity may impede the ability of units inside heart muscle cells called sarcomeres to contract, and losing weight may reverse that c...
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, so-called HFpEF, is happening more frequently, especially in those with severe obesity. Davi...
Brain organoids, collections of cells found in the brain, have been grown from blood samples of people with Alzheimer’s disease and used to...
Extracellular vesicles are membrane bound packages cells use to jettison materials from inside the cell, a sort of trash can. Johns Hopkins...
What might a model of the hindbrain, which helps control functions like sleep, breathing and heart rate, tell us about using a common depres...
Drugs to manage symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease may work in some people but not in others. Now a new method using brain organoids, which are...
Brain organoids are lab grown clusters of cells that have several of the cell types found in someone’s brain. Cells taken from a person’s bl...
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Medicaid reductions being rolled out this year are poised to dramatically reduce cancer screening for millions, a new study estimates. Willi...
Breast cancer screening is associated with false positives, where women are referred for further assessments and procedures that may be unne...
People who were older and had advanced cancers benefited from a telephone-based intervention designed to regularly assess their symptoms and...
Seventy percent of people diagnosed with cancer in the United States will still be alive five years later, the American Cancer Society repor...
American Cancer Society data find that the majority of people who are diagnosed with cancers of all types will still be alive five years lat...
PICS stands for post intensive care syndrome, and it is characterized by a number of physical and mental health conditions that may follow s...
Physical and mental health issues can follow a stay in an intensive care unit, a condition known as PICS, for post intensive care syndrome....
When someone has survived an intensive care unit stay, they may experience a host of challenges to their wellbeing known collectively as pos...
PICS stands for post intensive care syndrome, and recent data indicate that perhaps the majority of people who’ve been hospitalized in an IC...
Once you’ve made it through a stay in an intensive care unit, you can simply move forward in your life, right? Not exactly, as recent resear...
Maybe you’ve heard of CAR-T cells, a type of cell you have in your body that is supercharged in a lab and put back in to fight things like c...
CAR-T cells are a type of immune cell that have proven very effective for treating some types of cancer, yet limitations to their use exist....
Using polyester to wrap mRNA to create an injectable particle may soon enable targeting of your T cells to fight some cancers and autoimmune...
Let’s say I take one type of immune cell from your blood, grow it in a lab and use a virus to cause changes in that cell so it recognizes ca...
Put together a shelf-stable particle with a polyester shell, a homing mechanism, and mRNA instructions, and what do you have? A new technolo...
With several studies saying oxygen measurements are too low and one saying they’re too high, how much can pulse oximeters be trusted in thos...
Critical care medicine relies on pulse oximeters, which estimate oxygen levels in someone’s blood, for many decisions regarding their care....
Do devices that measure oxygen levels in blood, known as pulse oximeters, measure too high or too low in those with darker skin? That’s the...
If you are a person with darker skin should you be worried about the levels of oxygen in your blood a pulse oximeter is giving? Critical car...
Do the devices known as pulse oximeters, which measure the amount of oxygen in someone’s blood, underestimate or overestimate this value in...
Cognitive speed training using a computer to generate images and accelerate task completion was able to reduce the likelihood that an older...
A novel study has shown that training the brain with cognitive speed training seems to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Johns Hopkins...
If you were asked to learn a computer based task that would require an hour twice a week for six weeks, and it was something you would large...
Working with images on a computer screen on a task that gets faster and more complex may reduce one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease...
When you have to teach yourself a task and adapt to having that task speed up, that’s one type of learning used in a study assessing differe...
People who received memory and reasoning training or those who didn’t receive any brain training were more likely to be diagnosed with Alzhe...
Among a cohort of 2800 people, those who received cognitive speed training compared to usual care or memory and reasoning training we less l...
If you’re like many people you’d rather not develop dementia, so a new study demonstrating the benefits of a computer based intervention cal...
Cognitive speed training, where a computer is used to present an image and require tasks based on images that speeds up, resulted in fewer d...
Showing someone a visual task on a computer and then speeding things up so they must complete it faster and faster preserves brain function...
Brain organoids, cell collections grown in a lab to study diseases like Alzheimer’s, have created excitement because they are a bit more rep...
Using induced stem cells helps create models for diseases like Alzheimer’s disease that can be studied in a lab, but now three dimensional c...
Stem cells used to be derived from human embryos, but not anymore. Now a simple blood test can allow stem cells to be induced from cells fou...
Cells from your blood can be induced to return to what they looked like when you were an embryo, then can be made to develop into different...
A simple blood test may soon help precisely identify your risk for Alzheimer’s disease by inducing some of your cells to go back in time, lo...
Hormone therapy for menopause has recently had a black box warning removed by the FDA, after the agency reexamined data originally prompting...
The FDA has recently removed black box warnings, indicating a medication is potentially risky, from hormone therapy for menopause. The warni...
If you’re a woman who’s experiencing a loss of libido, you may have been advised to take testosterone supplements, but Wen Shen, a menopause...
Hormone therapy is not a panacea for everything that happens to a women transitioning through menopause, cautions Wen Shen, a menopause expe...