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Telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine enables a stroke patient to be treated with high level of care

A patient believed to have suffered a stroke typically gets transported to the nearest emergency room for tests to determine the best course of action. Telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine enabled one patient to have her stroke diagnosed and a treatment plan set up without ever stepping foot in a hospital.

11 Jan 2022

Decoding imagined language to treat people suffering from aphasia

What if it were possible to decode the internal language of individuals deprived of the ability to express themselves? This is the objective of a team of neuroscientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University Hospitals of Geneva.

11 Jan 2022

Simple health assessment could significantly reduce the global burden of COPD

The global burden of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a group of common lung conditions that affects more than 300 million people, could be significantly reduced with a simple health assessment, concludes a large-scale international study led by UCL researchers.

11 Jan 2022

Adding a tomato concentrate to the diet can reduce intestinal inflammation related to HIV

New UCLA-led research in mice suggests that adding a certain type of tomato concentrate to the diet can reduce the intestinal inflammation that is associated with HIV. Left untreated, intestinal inflammation can accelerate arterial disease, which in turn can lead to heart attack and stroke.

11 Jan 2022

International study offers a clearer picture of COVID-19's impact on children

A new international study offers a clearer picture of the impact of COVID-19 infection and the risk of severe outcomes on young people around the world.

11 Jan 2022

Phase 1 clinical trial shows the safety, feasibility of CAR-M cell therapy for solid tumors

Preliminary findings from Penn Medicine in an ongoing first-in-human clinical trial examining the safety, tolerability and feasibility of chimeric antigen receptor macrophage (CAR-M) has helped to establish the viability of this innovative immunotherapy, which advances the trailblazing scientific discovery of CAR T cell therapy- also pioneered at Penn- for solid cancer tumors and offers a promising new strategy in the fight against cancer.

11 Jan 2022

Having children at home may help adults feel less distressed during the pandemic

Kids have struggled throughout the pandemic—from attending school by Zoom video conferencing to quarantining from family and friends—but surprisingly having children at home may help adults feel less distressed.

11 Jan 2022

New study identifies ways to detect COPD in low- and middle-income countries

How to better detect chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in low- and middle-income countries is a question that has long plagued the global medical community.

11 Jan 2022

Novel mechanism linking intercellular adhesion molecule with genetic skin diseases discovered

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered a novel mechanism linking an intercellular adhesion molecule with genetic inflammatory skin diseases, according to findings published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

11 Jan 2022

Ketamine plus psychological therapy can help people stay off alcohol for longer time

People with severe alcohol disorder were able to stay off alcohol for longer when they were treated with low doses of ketamine combined with psychological therapy in a clinical trial.

11 Jan 2022

Scientists employ AI to predict which viruses could infect humans in future

Daniel Becker, an assistant professor of biology in the University of Oklahoma's Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, has been leading a proactive modeling study over the last year and a half to identify bat species that are likely to carry betacoronaviruses, including but not limited to SARS-like viruses.

11 Jan 2022

Psychotropic drugs are commonly used by patients with heart disease, study shows

Antidepressants and other psychiatric medications are associated with an almost doubled risk of premature death in patients with heart conditions, according to research published today in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

11 Jan 2022

What are the predictors of inpatient COVID-19 mortality rates?

A new study, conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, examined the relationship between baseline staffing levels of registered nurses (RNs), hospitalists, emergency medicine physicians, and intensivists (staff) and hospital-level COVID-19 mortality rates. The research builds on and extends earlier research that examined a subset of hospital-level characteristics over a shorter time period.

11 Jan 2022

Long-term exposure to air pollutants may increase the incidence of COVID-19

Long term exposure to ambient air pollution may heighten the risk of COVID-19 infection, suggests research published online in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine.

11 Jan 2022

New insights into reforming the actions that hindered Seattle researchers from community testing for COVID-19

As the two-year anniversary of the pandemic approaches, a new commentary provides insights into reforming the "labyrinth of conflicting and uncoordinated actions among state and federal regulators" that in early 2020 hampered Seattle researchers from community testing for COVID-19.

11 Jan 2022

Medicine News and Research

Telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine enables a stroke patient to be treated with high level of care

Decoding imagined language to treat people suffering from aphasia

Simple health assessment could significantly reduce the global burden of COPD

Adding a tomato concentrate to the diet can reduce intestinal inflammation related to HIV

International study offers a clearer picture of COVID-19's impact on children

Phase 1 clinical trial shows the safety, feasibility of CAR-M cell therapy for solid tumors

Having children at home may help adults feel less distressed during the pandemic

New study identifies ways to detect COPD in low- and middle-income countries

Novel mechanism linking intercellular adhesion molecule with genetic skin diseases discovered

Ketamine plus psychological therapy can help people stay off alcohol for longer time

Scientists employ AI to predict which viruses could infect humans in future

Psychotropic drugs are commonly used by patients with heart disease, study shows

What are the predictors of inpatient COVID-19 mortality rates?

Long-term exposure to air pollutants may increase the incidence of COVID-19

New insights into reforming the actions that hindered Seattle researchers from community testing for COVID-19

Neurologist receives ERC grant to study novel light-activated drugs with antiepileptic effects

Unrelated vaccines could also help reduce the burden of COVID-19 pandemic, study shows

Digital health and data science: New component of medical education curriculum introduced

Scientists receive grants to advance research on imaging system to monitor uterine contractions

Newly developed risk scores can help identify childhood obesity risk

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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