Saving the Girl with Dementia
Saving the Girl with Dementia: It takes a family to drive research for a rare disease forward.
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Living Heart Project Builds Virtual Twins for Medicine
Physics-based digital models of human organs can predict clinical outcomes and provide better guidance for lifesaving procedures.
How the hypercuriosity of ADHD may have helped humans thrive | Aeon Essays
ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information
New Chef Program Helps People With Autism Find Jobs in Fine-Dining Restaurants
Culinary jobs have the potential to be a perfect fit, and a new effort is afoot to help autistic workers land them.
Inside the Effort to Sequence a Thousand Measles Genomes
Understanding the genetics of circulating viruses will determine if the U.S. loses measles elimination status this year.
Microbubbles - Works in Progress Magazine
The “Sour” History of Scurvy, the Disease That Decimated the World’s Greatest Navies
The bane of sailors for centuries, scurvy is a disease that has caused immense suffering, even to the present day.
4 Muscles to Train for Maximum Anti-Aging Effect
Ignore them and you age faster.
The Insider's Guide to French Pharmacies
Marisa Meltzer on 20 years of stockpiling products that feel, smell, and work better than their American counterparts and doling them out to the underserved masses (her friends and colleagues).
Why rural hospitals close
What makes small town healthcare different
The Celtic Curse: How a Bronze Age mutation became Ireland’s deadly inheritance
The genetic disorder that turns the body into an iron trap
What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind
The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?
Hanging on to Your Inner Child Might Be the Secret to Health and Happiness
New evidence suggests that adults never outgrow the need for play, but we definitely do forget how to make room for it.
This Kevlar Medical Brace Folds Flat Like Origami and Might Finally Kill the Plaster Cast - Yanko Design
What do Swiss timepieces and sailing rigging systems have in common with orthopedic braces? More than you might think. The engineers at Osteoid drew inspiration from these precision mechanical systems to create Bracesys, a revolutionary approach to fracture immobilization that…
Stop, Shop, and Scroll
Behind every influencer is an army of the influenced, many adrift in debt and mass-produced clutter. These are the stories of credit card debt and piles of mass-produced clutter.
The complicated truth about urinary tract infections in the elderly
Recently, a former patient contacted me about his wife. “She had a recent stroke which has caused cognitive decline along with slow-growing dementia,” he told me via text. “Never, ever had a urinary tract infection in her life, she has now had four in the last three months. We…
Swearing Actually Seems To Make Humans Physically Stronger - Slashdot
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that swearing can help us unleash our inner strength, improving physical performance, it seems, by helping people break through certain psychological barriers. [...] [Psychology…
Comedy on 'prescription': Why performing stand-up is good for your health
In the UK, new schemes to support mental health are introducing to people an unexpected skill: stand-up comedy.
The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming Treatable
This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.
A fentanyl vaccine is about to get its first major test
Vaccine trial in the Netherlands hopes to protect against fentanyl-related overdose and death.
Personalized mRNA Vaccines Will Revolutionize Cancer Treatment—If Federal Funding Cuts Don’t Doom Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Can a 'molecular crowbar' fight pancreatic cancer? - Futurity
Can a ‘molecular crowbar’ fight pancreatic cancer?
How a Rare Brain Mutation Spread Across America
The Bowlin family knew they had a history of malformations in the brain. But they had no idea how far back it went.
Can We Build a Pancreas? These Bioengineers Think We’re Almost There
How a father’s love, entrepreneurship and tech advances could lead to a working artificial pancreas
A Liver on Ice
How a liver goes from a brain-dead donor to a living recipient.
Note: liver transplants
He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?
Scientists are searching for the secret in Doug Whitney’s biology that has protected him from dementia, hoping it could lead to ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s for many other people.
The World’s Most Common Surgery
In 4,000 years, cataract surgery went from a crude procedure involving thorn instruments to a 20-minute operation with a 95 percent clinical success rate. The next step is broadening access.
Woman hospitalized with pain and vomiting—diet soda cured her
Doctor’s dissolve mass in woman’s stomach by getting her to chug soda.
The Spinal Surgeries That Didn’t Need to Happen
As much as half of all spinal fusions don’t alleviate pain — why do doctors perform so many?
The rare disease that stops us feeling fear
Feeling fear is an evolutionary survival tactic. A small number of people have a rare condition that means they're not scared of anything. How do they live a life without fear?
The death rays that guard life
We disinfect water before we drink it. Why don’t we disinfect the air before we breathe it?
AI Spots Hidden Signs of Consciousness in Comatose Patients before Doctors Do
A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors could do so
to analyze facial movements that were too small to be noticed by clinicians.
The MAHA Trend in Groceries Will Backfire
It doesn’t bode well for the American diet.
Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s
The bacterium is known to live in Mississippi, but the new cases may expand its range.
In Defense Of The Amyloid Hypothesis
A guest post by David Schneider-Joseph
Aging Can Spread Through Your Body Via a Single Protein, Study Finds - Slashdot
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Take note of the name: ReHMGB1. A new study pinpoints this protein as being able to spread the wear and tear that comes with time as it quietly travels through the bloodstream. This adds significantly to our understanding of…
What happened to pathology AI companies?
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New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients
LOS ANGELES — A new drug-releasing system, TAR-200, eliminated tumors in 82% of patients in a phase 2 clinical trial for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment. In the majority of cases, the cancer disappeared…
One-size-fits-all pancreatic cancer vaccine showed promise in early trial
The vaccine doesn't prevent cancer from happening in the first place, but an early-phase trial found it could reduce the odds of recurrence.
The Quest to Cure Progeria Is a Quest to Slow Aging
One of the world’s rarest diseases makes people grow old prematurely. Scientists think that gene-editing can stop it, Dhruv Khullar writes.
Dental Floss Could Be the Future of Vaccines
The world of dental floss is undergoing some radical technological advancements. And vaccines could be next.
Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t
Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? Rachel Aviv reports.
Mary had landed on a story that overwrote the reality of her daughters’ lives, but they also recognized in it a kind of emotional logic.
Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have?
For many medical conditions, lifesaving treatments may be hiding in plain sight.
Heart attacks aren’t as fatal as they used to be
The proportion of deaths from heart attacks dropped nearly 90 percent through smoking reduction, statin drugs, CPR training, and advanced cardiac care.
Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease
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The Wyoming Hospital Upending the Logic of Private Equity
Instead of cutting services to cut costs, one rural hospital plans to thrive by offering more.
Why UTIs Are Getting So Much Harder to Treat
It’s not just you — the infections are becoming more common. The way we treat them may be contributing to the problem.
That Healing Sound - Nautilus
When music is medicine.
Reservoirs of Resistance
By studying the millennia-old arms race between soil-dwelling microbes, scientists can pre-empt antibiotic resistance before it emerges in people.
There's a secret superfood in white rice and pasta: Here's how to unlock it
When it comes to rice and pasta, dieticians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta. Here's the trick.