Heat stress impacts infant growth rates up to age of 2, new analysis suggests
Exposure to high levels of heat may both impact the growth of fetuses during pregnancy and infants up to the age of 2, a new analysis suggests.
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Study finds common breast cancer treatments may speed aging process
A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has revealed that common breast cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, may accelerate the biological aging process in breast cancer survivors.
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Ultra-powered MRI scans show damage to brain’s ‘control center’ is behind long-lasting COVID-19 symptoms
Damage to the brainstem—the brain’s ‘control center’—is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe COVID-19 infection, a study suggests.
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Study shows cancer vaccine blocks tumor progression at early lesion stage
A cancer vaccine that had little success in clinical trials for patients with advanced tumors could potentially have efficacy if administered earlier in the treatment cycle, according to a study from Vanderbilt researchers.
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The way sensory prediction changes under anesthesia could reveal how conscious cognition works
Our brains constantly work to make predictions about what’s going on around us, for instance to ensure that we can attend to and consider the unexpected. A new study examines how this works during consciousness and also breaks down under general anesthesia. The results add evidence for the idea that conscious thought requires synchronized communication—mediated by brain rhythms in specific frequency bands—between basic sensory and higher-order cognitive regions of the brain.
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Unveiling immune system responses that induce and maintain autoimmune pancreatitis
Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a clinical condition characterized by inflammation of the pancreas, caused by the body’s hypersensitivity to its own proteins. AIP is typically accompanied by other organ inflammations such as autoimmune sialadenitis and cholangitis, together categorized as systemic autoimmune disorder, called IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD). When induced repeatedly with polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (poly(I:C)), murine models of AIP (MRL/MpJ mice) were similar to the human AIP with IgG4-RD.
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Scurvy: Not just an 18th-century sailors’ disease
Scurvy, or vitamin C deficiency, is not just an 18th-century seafarers’ disease, as a case study of a 65-year-old woman with mobility issues and social isolation shows. In an article published in Canadian Medical Association Journal, clinicians describe how scurvy should be considered in patients with abnormal bleeding and nonspecific symptoms.
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New model shows potential for human papillomavirus vaccination switch to 1-dose gender-neutral approach
Canadian vaccination programs could switch to a 1-dose gender-neutral human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination approach and eliminate cervical cancer, suggests new modeling in Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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Machine learning model can diagnose Meniere disease
A machine learning model based on pure-tone audiometry features can diagnose Meniere disease (MD) and predict endolymphatic hydrops (EH), according to a study published online Aug. 28 in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
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Rwanda will deploy Marburg vaccine under trial as death toll rises to 12
Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever, officials said Sunday, as the East African country tries to stop the spread of an outbreak that has killed 12 people.
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