New Combination Therapy Found Effective Against Drug-Sensitive and Resistant Tick-Borne Babesiosis
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The lab of Choukri Ben Mamoun, PhD (left), has a long-standing interest in fighting this tick-borne disease. Credit: Yale University Drug-resistant babesiosis may respond to a novel combination therap…
Soft Fabric Necklace Monitors Care of Preterm, Low-Birth-Weight Infants
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Joey, a soft, lightweight sensing fabric designed in the lab of Columbia Engineering Professor Xia Zhou, monitors care of preterm, low-birth-weight infants. The necklace can easily be worn by mothers to monitor their Kangaroo …
Participants of Pioneering CRISPR Gene Editing Trial See Vision Improve
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In early 2020, surgeons at the OHSU Casey Eye Institute performed the first in-body CRISPR gene editing procedure as part of the Phase 1/2 BRILLIANCE clinical trial. Now, new trial results show about 79% of the 14 trial’s participants with a rare form of inherited blindness had measurable imp…
Fatty Liver Was a Disease of the Old. Then Kids Started Getting Sick
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EL CAJON, Calif. â When doctors told Carmen Hurtado that her 8-year-old was sick with a condition known as fatty liver disease, her first reaction was not fear. It was confusion.Dani was a happy, active child, and other than putting on some weight the previous year, nothing appeared wrong with he…
Scientists at the School of Medicine Want to Delay Menopause. Should They?
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Alarming Trends Call for Action to Define the Future Role of Food in Nation’s Health
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CHICAGO, June 10, 2024 — The cost of nutritious food and the lack of access to it are of significant concern to U.S. consumers. That’s according to a new national poll of public attitudes on food and nutrition conducted by Zogby Analytics on behalf of Resea…
PAS 2024: Nemours Children’s Health Researchers to Present on Youth Mental Health, Vaccination, Autism, and Respiratory Illness
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WILMINGTON, Del. (May 1, 2024) – Researchers from Nemours Children’s Health will present findings from a range of studies at the 2024 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting, May 2-6 in Toronto. Key presentations will address pediatric mental health, vac…
EDTA Chelation No Help in Cutting CV Outcomes After MI in Diabetic Patients: TACT2
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ATLANTA, GA—More than a decade after the TACT trial reported an astonishing reduction in cardiovascular events post-MI with heavy metal chelation in a subset of diabetic patients, the TACT2 trial, designed to test edetate disodium (EDTA) solely in a diabetic population, has come up empty-handed. …
Phone App Uses AI to Detect Depression from Facial Cues
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Dartmouth researchers report they have developed the first smartphone application that uses artificial intelligence paired with facial-image processing software to reliably detect the onset of depression before the user even knows something is wrong.Called MoodCapture, the app uses a phone’s front …
Minority Populations Largely Unrepresented in Gynecologic Cancer Clinical Trials
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New research further revealed disparities in gynecologic cancer clinical trial enrollment, warranting increased efforts to improve representation in these trials. The cohort study was published in JAMA Network Open and included 562,592 women who had endometrial or uterine, ovarian, or cervical canc…