Patients hospitalized for substance use disorder (SUD) are significantly more likely to die from other medical conditions later in life, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at mortality following a diagnosis of 28 different medical conditions, including heart failure, cancer, depakote 1500 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and stroke, and found patients with a history of alcohol or drug misuse had a […]

A recent review published in the journal Biomolecules discussed the potential uses of melatonin in treating brain fog and chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis symptoms associated with long coronavirus disease (COVID). Study: Possible Application of Melatonin in Long COVID. Image Credit: metamorworks / Shutterstock Background An emerging concern associated with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is long COVID or clinical […]

Among older adults who use the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), rates of memory decline appear to be slower than among those who don’t use the program, new research shows. Researchers assessed the memory function of a total of approximately 3500 persons who either used SNAP or did not use SNAP over a period of 20 years. They found […]

Epinephrine is the only medication that can stop anaphylaxis and it is critical that everyone with a food allergy has access to epinephrine to treat life threatening reactions. A new study being presented at this year's American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting in Louisville, KY shows that only half of food allergic adult patients have […]

Using a protocol developed at UC San Francisco, physicians have successfully treated a fetus with a devastating genetic disorder for the first time, and the child is now thriving as a toddler, a case study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports. “This treatment expands the repertoire of fetal therapies in a new direction,” said co-senior and corresponding author […]

Neurotechnology -; the combination of neuroscience and technology -; has the potential to both "decode" and shape brain activity, with important implications for future interventions in humans. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2022, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health. Neurotechnology encompasses an increasing array […]

New technology can trace which populations of breast cancer cells are responsible for the spread of the disease, and for the first time highlights how the location of cancer cells could be as important as mutations in tumour growth. The method was created by a team from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, celexa not recommended for suicidal patients EMBL’s European Bioinformatics […]

<img class="aligncenter" src="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2022/how-pathogens-hijack-t.jpg" alt="How pathogens hijack the immune system to cause vaccine-enhanced disease" title="Vaccination with M. pneumoniae lipoproteins is associated with potent reactivation of inflammatory cytokines responses after challenge. A Illustration of experimental timeline and outcome measures. B Lung lesion scores of vaccinated-then-challenged animals. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) concentrations of C TNF-α, D IL-1β, E IL-6, F IL-17A, and G […]

New research presented this week at ACR Convergence 2022, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, found that adult RA patients starting opioids had twice the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) compared to patients starting nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (Abstract #1646). Venous thromboembolism is a serious, but preventable, condition that occurs when a blood clot forms in a vein. Pain […]

<img class="aligncenter" src="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2022/study-finds-combinatio.jpg" alt="Study finds combination therapy does little to slow spine damage in radiographic axial spondyloarthritis patients" title="Cumulative probability plot of mSASSS progression over 108 weeks of treatment. Credit: COmparison of the Effect of Treatment with NSAIDs Added to Anti-TNF Therapy versus Anti-TNF Therapy Alone on Progression of StrUctural Damage in the Spine over Two Years in Patients with […]