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Category: 4. Health

  • Updated equestrian helmet ratings system adds racing and high-speed events

    Updated equestrian helmet ratings system adds racing and high-speed events

    Falling off a horse at high-speed changes the impact to the rider’s head and the parameters for a quality helmet, according to new research from the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab.

    Published on April 28 in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, the findings from researchers Steve Rowson and Lauren Duma indicate that head impacts during falls at high speed generate unique head rotation, which in turn, directly affects helmet behavior.

    “Rotational motion of the head is very important,” said Rowson,…

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  • Study using simulations highlights power of pooled data in environmental health research

    Study using simulations highlights power of pooled data in environmental health research

    Conflicting findings in environmental epidemiology have long stalled consensus on the health effects of toxic chemicals. A new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests that one major reason for these inconsistencies may be the limited exposure ranges in individual studies — leading to underpowered results and unclear conclusions.

    Researchers used simulated data to examine how well individual and pooled studies…

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  • Largest osteoarthritis genetic study uncovers pathways to new therapies and repurposed drugs

    Largest osteoarthritis genetic study uncovers pathways to new therapies and repurposed drugs

    Researchers have uncovered multiple new genes and genetic pathways that could lead to repurposing hundreds of existing drugs for osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis.

    The research, which analyzed data from nearly 2 million people in diverse populations worldwide, was recently published in Nature. It represents an extensive genetic exploration of osteoarthritis, a condition affecting over 600 million people globally.

    Conducted by an international team led by Helmholtz Munich in…

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  • Trouble hearing in noisy places and crowded spaces? Researchers say new algorithm could help hearing aid users

    Trouble hearing in noisy places and crowded spaces? Researchers say new algorithm could help hearing aid users

    When a group of friends gets together at a bar or gathers for an intimate dinner, conversations can quickly multiply and mix, with different groups and pairings chatting over and across one another. Navigating this lively jumble of words — and focusing on the ones that matter — is particularly difficult for people with some form of hearing loss. Bustling conversations can become a fused mess of chatter, even if someone has hearing aids, which often struggle filtering out background noise….

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  • A drug dismantles a metabolic barrier to anti-tumor immunity

    A drug dismantles a metabolic barrier to anti-tumor immunity

    A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a specific mode of fat uptake by immune cells within tumors that serves as a metabolic checkpoint against anti-cancer immune responses. Harnessing that insight, researchers led by Ludwig Lausanne’s Ping-Chih Ho and Yi-Ru Yu — along with Sheue-Fen Tzeng and Chin-Hsien Tsai, former post-docs in the Ho lab who now lead their own labs at Taipei Medical University in Taiwan — have developed a humanized antibody to dismantle that barrier as a…

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  • Brain decoder controls spinal cord stimulation

    Brain decoder controls spinal cord stimulation

    When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury are interrupted, resulting in paralysis. Because the brain is functioning normally, as is the spinal cord below the injury, researchers have been working to re-establish the communication to allow for rehabilitation and potentially restore movement.

    Ismael Seáñez, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at…

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  • First synthetic ‘mini prion’ shows how protein misfolding multiplies

    First synthetic ‘mini prion’ shows how protein misfolding multiplies

    Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks into strands (or fibrils) of misfolded tau proteins, which then transmit their abnormally folded shape to other normal tau proteins.

    Misfolded, prion-like proteins drive the progression of tauopathies, a group of neurodegenerative diseases — including Alzheimer’s disease — characterized by the…

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  • Long-term survival rates of some Acute Myeloid Leukemia patients could double with sensitive bone marrow test

    Long-term survival rates of some Acute Myeloid Leukemia patients could double with sensitive bone marrow test

    A highly sensitive bone marrow test could double survival rates for some groups of younger adults with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) by helping doctors identify if they might relapse up to three months earlier.

    The patient-specific molecular test can detect low levels of leukaemia cells in the body, known as minimal residual disease (MRD), which when left untreated causes the disease to relapse.

    The trial, published today in The Lancet Haematology and led by King’s College London, showed for…

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  • High blood sugar in adolescence tripled the risk of premature heart damage affecting females worse than males

    High blood sugar in adolescence tripled the risk of premature heart damage affecting females worse than males

    Persistently high blood sugar and insulin resistance significantly increased the risk of worsening functional and structural heart damage during growth from adolescence to young adulthood, a new study shows. The study was conducted in collaboration between the Baylor College of Medicine in the US, the University of Bern in Switzerland, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia, the Universities of Bristol and Exeter in the UK, and the University of Eastern Finland. The results…

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  • Autism Registry Raises Concern Over Ethics, Privacy And Intended Use

    Autism Registry Raises Concern Over Ethics, Privacy And Intended Use

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made controversial statements about autism in a press conference on April 16. Among the most shocking, after claiming that…

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