Ocular Capillary Ischemia Offers Early Warning of Diabetic Eye Disease Progression
An AI-driven automated optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) review system predicted progression of diabetic macular ischemia (DMI) with greater than 90% accuracy, a retrospective cohort study showed. DMI of the superficial capillary plexus at baseline more than doubled the risk of progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR), and DMI of the deep capillary plexus more than […]
Is Getting Test Results Online Right Away a Good Idea? Yes, Patients Say
Patients who receive test results online before their physician has had a chance to review them should have immediate access to resources to help them adjust to bad news, an expert suggested. “We need to do more to wrap patients in support and information tools and technology when that result is scary, when that result […]
Montana bio station researchers discuss mine risks to salmon rivers
Recently, a group of 23 science and policy experts from the U.S. and Canada published a review of mining risks to watersheds ranging from Montana to British Columbia and Alaska. The paper in the journal Science Advances brought together experts in salmon ecology, watershed science, mining impacts and mining policy to integrate knowledge across research […]
Presepsin a ‘Robust’ Biomarker of Early-Onset Sepsis
Presepsin holds promise as a biomarker for early-onset sepsis (EOS), a systematic review and meta-analysis confirmed. Across a dozen clinical trials, presepsin had a pooled sensitivity of 0.93 for the primary analysis of culture-proven sepsis (95% CI 0.86-0.96), a pooled specificity of 0.91 (95% CI 0.85-0.95), and a pooled diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) of 131.7 […]
Study strengthens case that vitamins cannot treat COVID-19: Vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc were not found to lessen a patient’s chance of dying from COVID-19
A new review of COVID-19 hospitalization data by researchers at The University of Toledo has found that taking immune-boosting supplements such as vitamin C , vitamin D and zinc do not lessen your chance of dying from COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, healthcare providers tried a variety of micronutrients as potential therapies for the new […]
‘Blue food revolution’ to tackle climate change and malnutrition
An unprecedented review of the aquatic foods sector has uncovered how fisheries and aquaculture can play a greater role in delivering healthy diets and more sustainable, equitable and resilient food systems around the world. Five peer-reviewed papers in the journal Nature highlight the opportunities to leverage the vast diversity of aquatic, or “blue,” foods in […]
How schools of ‘microswimmers’ can increase their cargo capacity
A new study published in Physical Review Letters describes a way to increase the cargo capacity of microscopic, self-propelled droplets known as “microswimmers.” Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Max Planck Institutefor Dynamics and Self-Organisation found that when a school of microswimmers move in the same direction inside a narrow channel, they can […]