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Bird Flu Threat Sparks NYC Market Shutdown: Hackensack Meridian Health Researchers Tracking The Virus, With Unique Testing

Hackensack Meridian Health — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:20:58 EST

19 Mercy Medical Center Physicians in Baltimore Named Castle Connolly's "Top Doctors" for 2025

Mercy Medical Center — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:10:09 EST

19 physicians at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, representing 11 different specialties have been named "Top Doctors" by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.

UCLA Researchers Find High Levels of the Industrial Chemical Btmps in Fentanyl

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:05:45 EST

Research team finds that drugs being sold as fentanyl contain high amounts of the industrial chemical bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate, or BTMPS. This new substance of concern emerged in the illicit drug supply nearly simultaneously in multiple U.S. locations from coast-to-coast.

Mitochondria May Hold the Key to Curing Diabetes

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:00:23 EST

Mitochondria may hold the key to curing diabetes

Recomendaciones de consenso sobre como afrontar la epilepsia con mioclonias palpebrales (sindrome de Jeavons)

International League Against Epilepsy — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:50:23 EST

La EEM es un sindrome epileptico generalizado caracterizado por una triada de caracteristicas clinicas: crisis provocadas por el cierre de los ojos o cambios en el EEG, mioclonias en los parpados con o sin crisis de ausencia, y fotosensibilidad. Se presenta predominantemente en mujeres y suele ser una condicion de por vida que aparece entre los 3 y los 12 anos.

Researchers Explore Ketogenic Diet's Effects on Bipolar Disorder Among Teenagers, Young Adults

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:50:11 EST

UCLA Health is set to begin a multi-site pilot study to explore whether a ketogenic diet, when combined with mood stabilizing medications, helps stabilize mood symptoms in teenagers and young adults who have bipolar disorder.

It's Tinnitus Awareness Month. Researcher Fatima Husain Is Here to Answer Your Questions About the Science Behind the Condition

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:50:02 EST

UM School of Medicine Surgeon-Scientists to Co-Lead Large International Clinical Trial to Determine Most Effective Treatment for Common Hip Fracture in Older Adults

University of Maryland School of Medicine — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:25:58 EST

UM school of medicine surgeon-scientists to co-lead large international clinical trial to determine most effective treatment for common hip fracture in older adults

Upstate Now Offers Talking Prescription Bottles for Visually-Impaired or Non-English Speaking Patients

SUNY Upstate Medical University — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:15:42 EST

Upstate now offers talking prescription bottles for visually-impaired or non-English speaking patients

Co-located Cell Types Help Drive Aggressive Brain Tumors

Johns Hopkins Medicine — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:15:39 EST

Credit: Adobe Stock A type of aggressive, treatment-resistant brain tumor has a distinct population of immune cells that support its growth, according to new research led by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

New Smart Sensor Takes the Pain Out of Wound Monitoring

Penn State Materials Research Institute — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:05:27 EST

Researchers from Penn State and China's Hebei University of Technology addressed this issue by uncovering a new property of a sensor material, enabling the team to develop a new type of flexible sensor that can accurately measure both temperature and physical strain simultaneously but separately to pinpoint various signals more precisely.

Wasteful Tests Before Surgery: Study Shows How to Reduce Them Safely

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 09:35:46 EST

Not all patients need a battery of pre-surgery tests -- especially if the results won't change how their surgical team treats them or how well they do afterward. Now, a new study shows how hospitals can focus the use of such tests on the patients who truly need them, while safely reducing unnecessary testing in others.

Renowned UTHealth Houston Researcher Discusses What 4,000-Year-Old Mummies Tell Us About Heart Disease, and Why It's Preventable

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:55:14 EST

An unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, and smoking - considered to be a relatively recent societal curse - are all risk factors to heart disease. But if that is the case, did heart disease exist thousands of years ago?

ALS Survival May Be Cut Short by Living in Disadvantaged Communities

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 06:30:10 EST

Living in a disadvantaged community may decrease the length of time a person can survive with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, by over 30%, a study suggests. Similar studies have shown that living in resource-deprived areas is associated with a higher burden of Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias.

Cash and Counselling Slash Unsuccessful TB Outcomes by Half

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:35:09 EST

A new study shows that tuberculosis patients cash-incentivised and counselled have a 52% lower relative risk of having an unsuccessful treatment outcome.

Many Adults Report Inaccurate Beliefs About Risks and Benefits of Home Firearm Access

Rutgers University-New Brunswick — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:05:00 EST

Adults tend to overestimate the degree to which home firearm access protects people during home invasions while underestimating the impact on suicide risk, according to Rutgers Health study

Research Team Develops and Validates Novel Tool Designed to Guide Healthcare Worker Well-Being Improvement

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:45:30 EST

research team has developed a new tool designed to measure the root-cause drivers of healthcare worker well-being. Going beyond traditional assessments of burnout and professional fulfillment, the tool evaluates the systemic factors that influence well-being across the healthcare workforce.

Better Together: Physicians Using AI Showed Improved Performance in Randomized Controlled Trial

Beth Israel Lahey Health — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:10:51 EST

A study published in Nature Medicine suggests physicians who have access to large language models (LLM), also known as chatbots, demonstrate improved performance on several patient care tasks compared to physicians without access to LLM.

This Heart Month, Ochsner Health Is Focused on Heart Failure Prevention and Treatment

Ochsner Health — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:55:05 EST

Heart failure affects the heart's ability to pump blood efficiently, leading to symptoms like fatigue and shortness of breath. Today, it impacts 6.7 million Americans over 20 years old, with that number expected to climb to 8.5 million by 2030

Tyber Medical Celebrates Clinical Research Excellence with Five Accepted Abstracts at the 2025 Orthopaedic Research Society Conference

Tyber Medical, LLC — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:45:23 EST

Tyber Medical Celebrates Clinical Research Excellence with Five Accepted Abstracts at the 2025 Orthopaedic Research Society Conference

John Reinitz, Systems Biologist, 1958-2025

University of Chicago Medical Center — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:35:45 EST

Reinitz helped pioneer a data-driven, systems approach to developmental biology that is now widely used in the field today.

Mount Sinai Researchers Identify Important Considerations for Online Psychiatric Research

Mount Sinai Health System — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:30:32 EST

AI Accelerates the Search for New Tuberculosis Drug Targets

University of California San Diego — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:25:13 EST

As one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in the U.S. unfolds in Kansas, UC San Diego researchers and their colleagues have published research describing the use of artificial intelligence tools to screen for new antimicrobial candidates to treat the disease.

Super Bowl Can Cause Elevated Heart Attack Risk, Especially Among At Risk Patients

Hackensack Meridian Health — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:20:44 EST

Experts Available regarding cardiac events and the Super Bowl

Cedars-Sinai Again Earns Top Ranking for Blood and Marrow Transplants

Cedars-Sinai — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:15:43 EST

For the fifth year in a row, Cedars-Sinai Cancer patients receiving donor stem cell transplants to treat blood and bone marrow cancer such as acute leukemia experienced better one-year survival rates than those treated at most other U.S. transplant centers.

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Bird Flu Threat Sparks NYC Market Shutdown: Hackensack Meridian Health Researchers Tracking The Virus, With Unique Testing

19 Mercy Medical Center Physicians in Baltimore Named Castle Connolly's "Top Doctors" for 2025

UCLA Researchers Find High Levels of the Industrial Chemical Btmps in Fentanyl

Mitochondria May Hold the Key to Curing Diabetes

Recomendaciones de consenso sobre como afrontar la epilepsia con mioclonias palpebrales (sindrome de Jeavons)

Researchers Explore Ketogenic Diet's Effects on Bipolar Disorder Among Teenagers, Young Adults

It's Tinnitus Awareness Month. Researcher Fatima Husain Is Here to Answer Your Questions About the Science Behind the Condition

UM School of Medicine Surgeon-Scientists to Co-Lead Large International Clinical Trial to Determine Most Effective Treatment for Common Hip Fracture in Older Adults

Upstate Now Offers Talking Prescription Bottles for Visually-Impaired or Non-English Speaking Patients

Co-located Cell Types Help Drive Aggressive Brain Tumors

New Smart Sensor Takes the Pain Out of Wound Monitoring

Wasteful Tests Before Surgery: Study Shows How to Reduce Them Safely

Renowned UTHealth Houston Researcher Discusses What 4,000-Year-Old Mummies Tell Us About Heart Disease, and Why It's Preventable

ALS Survival May Be Cut Short by Living in Disadvantaged Communities

Cash and Counselling Slash Unsuccessful TB Outcomes by Half

Many Adults Report Inaccurate Beliefs About Risks and Benefits of Home Firearm Access

Research Team Develops and Validates Novel Tool Designed to Guide Healthcare Worker Well-Being Improvement

Better Together: Physicians Using AI Showed Improved Performance in Randomized Controlled Trial

This Heart Month, Ochsner Health Is Focused on Heart Failure Prevention and Treatment

Tyber Medical Celebrates Clinical Research Excellence with Five Accepted Abstracts at the 2025 Orthopaedic Research Society Conference

John Reinitz, Systems Biologist, 1958-2025

Mount Sinai Researchers Identify Important Considerations for Online Psychiatric Research

AI Accelerates the Search for New Tuberculosis Drug Targets

Super Bowl Can Cause Elevated Heart Attack Risk, Especially Among At Risk Patients

Cedars-Sinai Again Earns Top Ranking for Blood and Marrow Transplants

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