Like many in digital health Michelle Davey, cofounder of Texas-based vendor of telehealth services and staffing company Wheel, has her own connection to the space. She grew up in rural Texas with an autoimmune disease that was undiagnosed for 15 years, due to lack of access to care. While this access issue remained in the back of her mind, she started her […]
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MARTES, 27 de octubre de 2020 — Unos investigadores de Reino Unido tienen unas noticias tranquilizadoras para las personas con psoriasis, basándose en el primer análisis de un registro global de la COVID-19 de pacientes que también tienen la enfermedad de la piel. Los casos entre moderados y graves de psoriasis se tratan con unos medicamentos que suprimen al sistema […]
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Fox News Flash top headlines for October 29 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. A high-sugar diet is bad for gut health and possibly increases the risk of colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), concluded the authors of a new study published in Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday. Researchers with UT Southwestern Medical […]
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As COVID-19 cases begin climbing again in the United States, the possibility arises of a grim moral dilemma: Which patients should be prioritized if medical resources are scarce? Researchers from the United States and China asked more than 5,000 people from 11 countries how they would make one version of that ethical decision. Study participants considered 15 possible scenarios, choosing […]
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Psychologists have developed a do-it-yourself tool that uses “the science of memory” to improve the ability to remember more contacts during the contact tracing process. After testing positive for COVID-19, a person is typically advised to report who they’ve recently been in contact with, so those individuals can be notified of their exposure. Remembering every single person can be very […]
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In the October 28, 2020 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and the National Institutes of Health describe how reminders of drug use can change specific brain cells responsible for motivation, increasing the desire to seek drugs. Connections between these and other brain cells strengthen because the dendritic spines, the parts of […]
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Researchers have long known that many people (mostly women) suffering from anorexia face a high risk of death. But, until now, they didn’t know what causes the eating disorder to turn fatal. In a research letter published in the Oct. 26 edition of Nature Metabolism, Yale researchers describe a specific neuron that appears to play an important role in whether […]
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A new imaging-based method could enable the early detection and differentiation of a wide variety of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the buildup of tau protein in the brain, suggests a study published October 29 in the journal Neuron. The researchers demonstrate that the method, which uses an imaging technique called positron emission tomography (PET), enables sensitive detection of tau deposits […]
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When former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords wed astronaut Mark Kelly on November 10, 2007, we’re sure they if they imagined their names would become famous, it would be due to her work on behalf of her constituents and his adventurous life as an astronaut. But on January 8, 2011, the couple became famous for an entirely different and wholly tragic reason. […]
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While our circadian body clock dictates our preferred rhythm of sleep or wakefulness, a relatively new concept—the epigenetic clock—could inform us about how swiftly we age, and how prone we are to diseases of old age. People age at different rates, with some individuals developing both characteristics and diseases related to aging earlier in life than others. Understanding more about […]
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