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Medical Xpress / Research moves closer to 'smart' sensors in knee replacements
If you have a knee replacement, imagine pointing your phone at your knee and pulling up an app that tells you how much stress the artificial joint is experiencing. Knowing the activities that cause the biggest problems—which ...
Medical Xpress / Spinal cord stimulator stays rigid for surgery, then softens inside the body
What if chronic diseases, which are difficult to treat with medicine alone, could be managed with electricity? As "neuromodulation"—a technology that restores bodily balance by sending signals directly to nerves—gains attention, ...
Medical Xpress / How an Alzheimer's risk gene disrupts brain circuits long before memory loss
For the millions of people who carry the gene APOE4, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, their brain activity may begin changing long before any memory problems appear. Now, researchers at Gladstone ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds brain stimulation improves PTSD symptoms by calming fear center
A study from the Emory University School of Medicine finds transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a targeted form of noninvasive brain stimulation, can calm the brain's fear center and significantly improve symptoms of ...
Medical Xpress / Global study finds combined pollution and inequality can accelerate brain aging
An international study published across 34 countries shows that the biological age of the brain can be accelerated or delayed by environmental risk (air pollution, public housing conditions) and protective factors (socioeconomic ...
Medical Xpress / Transcranial magnetic stimulation can target a deep brain region without surgery or medication
Neuroscientists at University of Iowa Health Care have demonstrated for the first time that noninvasive brain stimulation can alter the activity of a critical deep brain region involved in emotion and memory. Moreover, the ...
Medical Xpress / Mechanisms behind tumor suppressor BAP1 highlight new treatment strategies for aggressive cancers
A team of scientists led by the National Cancer Center Singapore (NCCS) and Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) has found a new approach for treating some of the world's most aggressive cancers associated with BAP1 mutations. ...
Medical Xpress / Looking back to protect the future: New insights into influenza immunity
A new study from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity shows that seasonal influenza vaccination does more than protect against viruses circulating that year; it can also prime the immune system to respond ...
Medical Xpress / Could one protein play both sides? How Stard7 shifts colon cancer in different models
Alain Chariot's team has just published a study in EMBO Molecular Medicine shedding light on the unexpected role of the Stard7 protein in the development of intestinal cancers. Long regarded as a simple lipid transporter, ...
Medical Xpress / Small molecule drug candidate offers hope for rare kidney stone disease with no current treatment
Scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have shown that an orally administered small molecule, N-propargylglycine (N-PPG), can completely prevent the formation of calcium oxalate kidney stones, protect against ...
Medical Xpress / Biomarker test may improve risk assessment for HPV-related throat cancer
Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC—James) are advancing the understanding of a promising blood test that could ...
Medical Xpress / Using augmented reality to motivate prosthesis training
Artificial limbs look and function more like real limbs than ever before—but that's only helpful if they are used as intended. One of the main reasons amputees give for not using their body-powered prosthesis is a lack of ...
