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Medical Xpress / Video game improves emergency doctor trauma triage decision-making
Emergency physicians who play a video game about trauma triage outperform their peers who only receive standard education when it comes to properly caring for severely injured older adults. These findings are published in ...
Medical Xpress / AI screening in brain organoids uncovers two drug candidates for Leigh syndrome
The need for medical treatments for rare diseases such as Leigh syndrome is high. However, low patient numbers make research into treatments difficult. Together with a team from the University of Luxembourg, researchers from ...
Medical Xpress / Bowel cancer immunotherapy clinical trial follow-up shows zero relapses
Patients with a specific type of bowel cancer who were treated with a short course of immunotherapy before surgery instead of post-op chemotherapy have remained cancer-free after almost three years of follow-up, according ...
Medical Xpress / Protective 'switch' in most common blood cancer opens new doors for diagnosis and treatment
A new study published in The Journal of Immunology by researchers at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC) has uncovered a crucial biological "off switch" in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the most ...
Medical Xpress / These blood markers can expose colorectal, lung and ovarian cancers before symptoms appear
Biomarkers in the blood could be used for the early detection of colorectal cancer, lung cancer and ovarian cancer. A new study from Uppsala University shows that the performance of such biomarkers is comparable to or better ...
Medical Xpress / How neurons sense bacteria in the gut
Recent studies suggest that animals and people alike have close and complex relationships with the bacteria around and within them. The human gut microbiome, for instance, has been associated with both depression and Parkinson's ...
Medical Xpress / Implanted nerve stimulation for obstructive sleep apnea found to be safe and effective
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of proximal hypoglossal nerve stimulation, or pHGNS, (an implanted stimulation therapy targeting specific sectors of nerves in the tongue) for obstructive sleep ...
Medical Xpress / Not just snoring: Obstructive sleep apnea linked to poorer muscle quality and higher fracture risk
A new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center, published in Sleep and Breathing, reveals a significant link between obstructive sleep apnea and skeletal muscle quality. This finding ...
Medical Xpress / Washington expands hepatitis C testing, cutting per-patient costs by more than 45%
It took less than 22 years after the discovery of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) for a fast-acting, highly effective treatment to become available. Modern drugs are more than 95% effective at curing hepatitis C infection, yet ...
Medical Xpress / Psychologist reveals how distraction breaks memory
You're in the kitchen, baking a cake, and the recipe calls for two cups of sugar. By the time you choose between the brown and white sugar, you've forgotten how much you need, and you have to check the recipe again. That's ...
Medical Xpress / One exam for the whole retina can mean fewer settings, fewer complications and more information
The more precisely we want to examine the human retina, the more clearly one of the fundamental limits of physics becomes apparent. In cellular-resolution eye imaging, the same tradeoff has applied for years—tiny structures ...
Medical Xpress / School-based screening and support can help reduce anxiety in young children
A new online system delivered through primary schools has been shown to be significantly more effective than standard school provision in reducing anxiety among young children. The researchers say their "screening to intervention" ...
