Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: New cardiac arrest resuscitation treatment demonstrated 100% success rate in cannulation; How additional heart imaging can help certain women; Heart development protein has role in adult immunity.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Individualized brain stimulation therapy improves aphasia in stroke survivors; Weekly physical activity may help prevent Alzheimer’s in people with mild cognitive impairment; Diagnosing Parkinson’s via mitochondria interaction networks.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Predicting schizophrenia; Functional analysis complements sequencing; Early screening for cognitive decline; Rapid test highly accurate for PJI infections.
Researchers at Yale University have described what they have called a “data sanitization tool,” enabling them to strip personal identifiers out of functional genomics data while preserving their usefulness for research.
Researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of New York-based Northwell Health, illuminated the precise pathway from the brainstem to the spleen that controls inflammation in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Essentially, the work demonstrates how scientists could use the vagus nerve to hack the immune system, enabling them to turn down the excessive response that underlies autoimmune disease without the use of biologics or immunosuppressive drugs.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Rapid recovery protocol can lead to increased range of motion after TKA; Study compares racial disparities in unilateral vs. bilateral knee replacement surgery; Botox for TMJ disorders may not lead to bone loss in the short term.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Blood test does well in distinguishing between malignant, benign growths; PARP inhibition can assist tumor cells; CDK 4/6 inhibitors affect transcriptional landscape.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: What is causing COVID-19 blood clots?; Using machine learning to predict survival rates with OHCA; Remote cardiac rehabilitation proves itself.
The use of liquid biopsies, tests that look for variants in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) shed by tumors into blood plasma, could lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment in many cancers, according to University of Washington researchers. The tests misidentified a noncancer mutation that is particularly common in older people as a mutation used as a biomarker for PARP inhibitors indicated for use in prostate cancer, a study published in JAMA Oncology found, but the problem likely extends to other malignancies.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: AI helps detect brain aneurysms on CT angiography; BBB studies advancing focused ultrasound treatment for Parkinson’s; Study reveals unexpected protective role for brain swelling after injury.