ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (January 25, 2019) – When asthma symptoms improve, there’s reason for celebration by both allergist and patient. But once symptoms are better, how do health care practitioners go about stepping down asthma medication to make sure a patient’s needs are still met? The Asthma Controller Step Down Yardstick, a new guideline from…
Researchers at LSTM and Imperial College London have designed drugs which could help combat any potential new flu pandemic, by targeting the receptors of the cells by which the virus gains entry to the human body. In a paper published today(link is external) in the Journal of Immunology the team, led by LSTM’s Professor Richard…
IMAGE: This is Sofia Klingberg, Ph.D. researcher in community medicine and public health, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. view more Credit: Photo by Malin Arnesson Heavy pressures at work seem to predispose women to weight gain, irrespective of whether they have received an academic education. This is shown in a study of more than 3,800 people…
Suppose you are helping your friend search for their missing phone and while they are looking around another room, you find it behind some cushions. When they return, you seize the opportunity to play a prank on them and pretend the phone is still missing. You are able to envision this prank because you know…
IMAGE: An image of capillaries taken with spectral contrast optical coherence tomography angiography, which is the first technology to capture blood flow and oxygen exchange. view more Credit: Vadim Backman/Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. — More than 40 billion capillaries — tiny, hair-like blood vessels — are tasked with carrying oxygen and nutrients to the far reaches…
Gender stereotypes can hurt children — quite literally. When asked to assess how much pain a child is experiencing based on the observation of identical reactions to a finger-stick, American adults believe boys to be in more pain than girls, according to a new Yale study in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. The researchers attribute…
IMAGE: This is Shulin Li, Ph.D. view more Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON – Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered an immune regulator that appears to dictate glioblastoma (GBM) progression by shutting down immune surveillance, indicating a potential new area of therapeutic investigation. Findings from the preclinical study led…
IMAGE: This is Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D. view more Credit: University of Arizona Health Sciences TUCSON, Ariz. – Alzheimer’s disease hits women harder than men. Nearly two-thirds of Americans who have Alzheimer’s are women, and more than 60 percent of Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers are women, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Worldwide, 47 million people are…
The first U.S. patient to participate in a global study of a stem cell therapy injected directly into the brain to treat stroke disability was enrolled in the clinical trial this week at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). “At McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, we have been studying cellular therapies…
Recently I found myself on the receiving end of a tarot card reading at a summer potluck. A woman I had met only 30 minutes earlier peered at me over her glasses, the cards spread out on a cooler between us. Holding the five of pentacles, she said, “Have you grieved the loss of your…