What It Would Take For Abortion Rights To Be Codified Into U.S. Law
With the Supreme Court poised to roll the clock back half a century on abortion, codifying Roe v. Wade just became alarmingly urgent for those who believe a person has the right to terminate their pregnancy. The landmark Roe decision legalized abortion on a national scale when it was handed down in 1973, but there’s […]
Menstrual Cycles Point to Link Between Sex Hormones and Long QT
SAN FRANCISCO — Cardiac repolarization dynamics seemed to cycle in sync with the menstrual cycle of some people with congenital and drug-induced long QT syndrome (LQTS), a small prospective study showed. Women with LQTS type 2 were found to have their QT interval — corrected with the Bazett formula (QTcB) and Fridericia’s method (QTcF) — […]
New technique shows in detail where drug molecules hit their targets in the body
Scientists at Scripps Research have invented a way to image, across different tissues and with higher precision than ever before, where drugs bind to their targets in the body. The new method could become a routine tool in drug development. Described in a paper in Cell on April 27, 2022, the new method, called CATCH, […]
Did a Singing-Based Program Hit the Right Notes for Long COVID Patients?
An online singing-based program from the English National Opera (ENO) was associated with improvements in quality of life among adults with long COVID, a pragmatic randomized trial in England showed. Compared with usual care, the 6-week ENO Breathe program was associated with improvements in mental health composite scores on the RAND 36-item short form survey […]
How Can I Improve My Winter Mood? Diet & Exercise
What nutrients are essential for beating winter blues? Winter is often associated with certain nutritional deficiencies, such as vitamin D deficiency. Addressing these deficiencies and including certain foods in your diet may help beat the winter blues. Vitamin D There are conflicting reports about the link between low vitamin D levels and low mood. However, […]
Genetic diversity of C. difficile, a particularly problematic pathogen
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Jacobs School of Engineering, with colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine, have used a systems biology approach to parse the genetic diversity of Clostridioides difficile, a particularly problematic pathogen in health care settings. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that the bacterium causes approximately […]
Gastrointestinal issues linked with anxiety, social withdrawal for kids with autism: Findings could help shape future treatments aimed at easing pain for kids with autism experiencing constipation, stomach pain
Children with autism spectrum disorder tend to experience gastrointestinal issues, such as constipation and stomach pain, at a higher rate than their neurotypical peers. Some also experience other internalizing symptoms at the same time, including stress, anxiety, depression and social withdrawal. Until now, no studies have examined the causal relationship between gastrointestinal symptoms and internalizing […]
Poor diet associated with increased diabetes risk across all gradients of genetic risk: A poor diet, irrespective of genetic risk factors, is associated with a 30 percent increased risk of diabetes
Genetic risk factors and diet quality are independently associated with type 2 diabetes; a healthy diet is linked to lower diabetes risk across all levels of genetic risk. That’s the conclusion of a study of more than 35,000 US adults publishing April 26 in PLOS Medicine by Jordi Merino of Massachusetts General Hospital, US, and […]
Did Black Patients with COVID-19 See Greater Benefits With Novel Mab Therapy?
Hospitalized Black/African-American patients with COVID-19, and a baseline C-reactive protein (CRP) <150 mg/L, experienced a “markedly greater improvement” in survival without ventilation (SWOV), according to an analysis of LIVE-AIR study data. While SWOV at 28 days was improved among all patients with the agent versus placebo (hazard ratio 2.54, 95% CI 1.46-4.41, P=0.0009), the benefit […]
Dengue Fever: Symptoms, Vaccine, Causes, Contagious, Treatment & Death Rate
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