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Honey improves key measures of health, including blood sugar and cholesterol levels

Researchers look to better understand the impact of honey on mitigating certain cardiometabolic risk factors.

20 Nov 2022

Does CBD mitigate harms of cannabis?

Researchers examine adverse outcomes of THC could be alleviated by increasing the concentrations of CBD in these products.

20 Nov 2022

Why we should all eat Kimchi and other Korean fermented foods

A recent study reviews various traditional Korean fermented foods for their various health benefits.

20 Nov 2022

IESC transplant could repair the intestinal barrier after stroke and improve outcomes

Stroke is a leading cause of death, dementia and serious long-term disability. According to the American Heart Association, stroke patients also have a greater risk of depression, which negatively affects functional and cognitive recovery.

20 Nov 2022

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022: The problem of antimicrobial resistance in combating sepsis

As part of World Antimicrobial Resistance Week 2022, News-Medical speaks to Dr. Catharina Hartman, a trustee of the charity Sepsis Research FEAT, about the problems associated with combating sepsis brought on by antimicrobial resistance.

20 Nov 2022

New approach for delivering medication across the blood-brain barrier to treat brain tumors

Researchers have demonstrated in mice a new approach for delivering medication across the blood-brain barrier to treat tumors that cause aggressive, lethal brain cancer.

20 Nov 2022

New method can protect organs during heart and aortic surgery

Researchers led by Hidetoshi Masumoto and Genshiro Sunagawa at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have developed a new method of protecting organs during heart and aortic surgery when blood circulation has to be blocked.

20 Nov 2022

Wearable activity tracker data can be used to obtain metrics associated with user's physical health

A new Johns Hopkins study shows that data gathered from wearable activity trackers can be used to obtain several metrics associated with the user's general physical health and cardiovascular health status.

20 Nov 2022

New AI blood testing technology detects more than 80% of liver cancers

A novel artificial intelligence blood testing technology developed and used by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers to successfully detect lung cancer in a 2021 study has now detected more than 80% of liver cancers in a new study of 724 people.

20 Nov 2022

As STDS proliferate, companies rush to market at-home test kits. But are they reliable?

Among the more remarkable legacies of the covid-19 pandemic is how quickly federal regulators, the health care industry, and consumers moved to make at-home testing a reliable tool for managing a public health crisis.

20 Nov 2022

Pt(IV)-conjugated drug-delivery system shows efficacy in glioblastoma therapy

A recent study demonstrated a novel method for delivering anti-cancer drugs, conjugated to modified cell-penetrating peptides across the blood-brain barrier, in mice to treat glioblastoma.

18 Nov 2022

Clinical implementation of continuous genomic surveillance to identify, track, and interrupt the transmission of multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria

Scientists have developed a clinical WGS workflow that can detect transmission events of a pathogen before they become dominant.

18 Nov 2022

How gut microbes influence immune response to SARS-CoV-2

An article published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition journal provides an overview of the role of gut microbiota in shaping the host immune response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

17 Nov 2022

Marijuana and e-cigarettes both increase risks of cardiac arrhythmias

In a recent study published in the Heart Rhythm journal, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, assessed the relationship between different types of inhaled marijuana or tobacco product usage with ventricular and atrial arrhythmias.

17 Nov 2022

COVID-19 carries a much higher risk of epilepsy and seizures than influenza

COVID-19 increases risk of both seizures and epilepsy as compared to influenza infection

17 Nov 2022

Time-restricted eating reduces body mass in young athletic men

Researchers analyzed the impact of four weeks of time restricted eating on markers of metabolic health, body compositon, and running aerobic capacity.

17 Nov 2022

Scientific gathering aims to integrate advances in cancer and aging research

Institute for Research in Biomedicine - IRB Ageing is the main risk factor for the development of cancer, and the features shared by these two biological processes are increasingly evident. This week the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the BBVA Foundation are holding the 38th Barcelona Biomed conference "Quantitative dynamics of aging and premalignancy". Held at the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site on 14, 15 and 16 November, the event will be hosting 21 internationally recognized experts in the field who will present their latest breakthroughs.

17 Nov 2022

Study reveals novel therapeutic targets for airway relaxation

Bronchial constriction is what makes many lung diseases like asthma so dangerous. Researchers have discovered a new signaling pathway that causes the airways to widen.

17 Nov 2022

Experts investigate the role of IL-26 in COVID-19

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have shown that patients with acute COVID-19 infection have increased levels of the cytokine IL-26 in their blood. Moreover, high IL-26 levels correlate with an exaggerated inflammatory response that signifies severe cases of the disease. The findings, which are presented in Frontiers in Immunology, indicate that IL-26 is a potential biomarker for severe COVID-19.

17 Nov 2022

Study concludes monkeypox virus is readily detected by qPCR using three clinically validated assays

Researchers validated monkeypox virus (MPXV) quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays.

17 Nov 2022

Blood News and Research

Honey improves key measures of health, including blood sugar and cholesterol levels

Does CBD mitigate harms of cannabis?

Why we should all eat Kimchi and other Korean fermented foods

IESC transplant could repair the intestinal barrier after stroke and improve outcomes

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022: The problem of antimicrobial resistance in combating sepsis

New approach for delivering medication across the blood-brain barrier to treat brain tumors

New method can protect organs during heart and aortic surgery

Wearable activity tracker data can be used to obtain metrics associated with user's physical health

New AI blood testing technology detects more than 80% of liver cancers

As STDS proliferate, companies rush to market at-home test kits. But are they reliable?

Pt(IV)-conjugated drug-delivery system shows efficacy in glioblastoma therapy

Clinical implementation of continuous genomic surveillance to identify, track, and interrupt the transmission of multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria

How gut microbes influence immune response to SARS-CoV-2

Marijuana and e-cigarettes both increase risks of cardiac arrhythmias

COVID-19 carries a much higher risk of epilepsy and seizures than influenza

Time-restricted eating reduces body mass in young athletic men

Scientific gathering aims to integrate advances in cancer and aging research

Study reveals novel therapeutic targets for airway relaxation

Experts investigate the role of IL-26 in COVID-19

Study concludes monkeypox virus is readily detected by qPCR using three clinically validated assays

Decoding Cannabis: Differentiating Hemp and Marijuana

Deciphering the Microbiome with The Microsetta Initiative

Leveraging the power of automation to boost research

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