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Dual screening for liver fibrosis and retinopathy in type 2 diabetes

Retina scanning with vibration-controlled transient elastography could predict metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.

17 Dec 2024

Federal funding boosts effort to make eye transplants a reality

A federal funding agency that supports high-impact research capable of driving biomedical and health breakthroughs has awarded up to $47 million for a project aimed at moving eye transplants to restore vision closer to reality.

16 Dec 2024

Danish studies find increased risk of optic nerve damage with diabetes medicine

Two independent studies from the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) show that patients with type 2 diabetes who are treated with the drug Ozempic have an increased risk of developing damage to the optic nerve of the eye, which can lead to severe and permanent loss of vision.

16 Dec 2024

Black caregivers express concerns over police interactions with autistic children

Law enforcement provides critical community services, yet Black autistic youth often face elevated risk of negative outcomes during police interactions.

16 Dec 2024

A novel approach to prevent severe liver disease in diabetes

New research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden highlights the possibility of screening people with type 2 diabetes for liver damage at the same time as they undergo screening for eye disease. The study is published in Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

13 Dec 2024

electronRx to launch purpleDx pulmonary disease smartphone app for remote lung function monitoring

electronRx, a leading digital medicine and biomarker company driving healthcare through pulmonary innovation, today announced that it will launch purpleDx, a cardiopulmonary assessment app built to medical device standards, at CES 2025 from 7-10 Jan in Las Vegas, USA.

12 Dec 2024

Caltech develops microrobots for precise drug delivery

In the future, delivering therapeutic drugs exactly where they are needed within the body could be the task of miniature robots. Not little metal humanoid or even bio-mimicking robots; think instead of tiny bubble-like spheres.

11 Dec 2024

Intelligent toothbrush improves oral health and quality of life of older people

After seeing the oral health of many of his older patients deteriorate drastically, dentist Johan Flyborg started looking for a solution.

10 Dec 2024

Exercise enhances memory for up to 24 hours, study finds

The short-term boost our brains get after we do exercise persists throughout the following day, suggests a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.

9 Dec 2024

Eye-tracking study identifies unique face processing in autism

University of Houston psychology researcher Jason Griffin, who has pioneered new ways of measuring eye movements to understand autism spectrum disorder, is reporting that children with autism focus on faces differently than other children, especially in the early stages of visual processing.

9 Dec 2024

The brain’s hunger switch: TRH neurons hold the key to obesity therapies

Scientists uncover how TRH neurons suppress hunger by inhibiting AgRP neurons, advancing our understanding of GLP-1-based obesity treatments.

9 Dec 2024

Why does tinnitus worsen after naps?

Sstudy identifies how somatosensory factors, including snoring and sleep apnea, contribute to tinnitus loudness increases during naps. Researchers found temporary but measurable effects, suggesting that tensor veli palatini muscle dysfunction may play a role in these changes.

8 Dec 2024

New AI method enhances breast cancer risk prediction from mammograms

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis describes an innovative method of analyzing mammograms that significantly improves the accuracy of predicting the risk of breast cancer development over the following five years.

6 Dec 2024

How potential Medicaid cuts could play out in California

In 2017, the Republicans who controlled Congress tried mightily to slash federal spending on Medicaid, the government-funded health program covering low-income families and individuals.

5 Dec 2024

Study cracks the cold case of immunotherapy resistance

A study from the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center may have, at last, cracked the cold case of immunotherapy resistance.

3 Dec 2024

Researchers aim to uncover causes of acquired hearing loss and find potential therapies

With a new five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Mass Eye and Ear will study what causes acquired hearing loss (AHL) and seek new ways to protect against it.

3 Dec 2024

CU Anschutz Medical Campus receives $46 million for blindness cure research

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus will receive up to $46 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts (THEA) program to advance pioneering research aimed at curing total blindness through human eye transplantation.

2 Dec 2024

Homebound seniors living alone often slip through health system’s cracks

Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern.

2 Dec 2024

Novel mRNA-based therapy offers hope for patients with proliferative vitreoretinopathy

A new preclinical study by Mass Eye and Ear investigators showed that a novel mRNA-based therapy may be able to prevent blindness and scarring from proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) following a retinal detachment repair or traumatic injury to the eye.

27 Nov 2024

McMaster University develops fast and easy test for bacteria detection in fluids

A novel new test for bacteria in fluids makes it as easy as observing a color change to confirm the presence of disease-causing pathogens, promising much easier diagnostic tests and greater food safety.

26 Nov 2024