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Medical Xpress / AI could provide 'early alert' for breast cancer 6 years in advance
Three commercially available radiology AI systems have shown the potential to flag early signs of breast cancer up to six years before a diagnosis, according to a study published in Radiology.
Medical Xpress / AI could ease the burden of hospital discharge summaries
The hospital discharge summary—a document that outlines a patient's hospital stay for their outpatient providers—can take up a lot of doctors' time. It needs to comprehensively and succinctly summarize days, sometimes weeks, ...
Medical Xpress / Gene therapy approach reduces muscle spasticity after chronic spinal cord injury
Muscle spasticity is a common and often debilitating consequence of spinal cord injury that can significantly affect mobility and quality of life. Spasticity is a condition in which muscles become abnormally stiff or tight ...
Medical Xpress / Molecular mechanics behind heart cell restructuring revealed
Microtubules, part of heart muscle cells' internal "skeleton," help determine how the heart changes shape under stress, and a common signaling pathway called the ERK pathway acts as a key controller of where the building ...
Medical Xpress / How often do people pass gas? There's now an app for that
Flatulence, or farting, is something people often joke about or find embarrassing when it happens unexpectedly. It is, however, an essential bodily function that allows the digestive system to keep pressure within the intestinal ...
Medical Xpress / Ultrasound turns anticancer molecule into deep-lung bacteria killer
An anticancer medication called TLD1433, a ruthenium(II) complex that has entered Phase II trials for conditions such as non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, is now being repurposed to address one of the biggest public health ...
Medical Xpress / New GLP-1 oral pill lowers blood sugar and reduces bodyweight, clinical trial finds
Oral GLP-1 medications have the potential to increase access to therapies that can help lower blood sugar and reduce bodyweight. At the American Diabetes Association's Scientific Session, Mass General Brigham physician investigator ...
Medical Xpress / First-in-the-world gene therapy delivers missing gene directly to infant's brain
An 8-month-old infant with severe genetic epilepsy has become the first patient in the world to receive an experimental gene replacement therapy designed to restore the function of the WWOX gene directly in the brain. The ...
Medical Xpress / Why one diabetes drug may sharply cut heart failure risk for genetically vulnerable patients
Rare genetic variants known to cause cardiomyopathy, an inherited cause of a weak heart, can increase the risk of patients developing heart failure. However, new research from Mass General Brigham Heart and Vascular Institute ...
Medical Xpress / Defective HIV copies explain most persistent traces in blood following treatment, study finds
Antiretroviral drugs for HIV infection have enabled most people living with the virus to live long and healthy lives. However, a small portion of people experience detectable—and worrisome—traces of the virus that causes ...
Medical Xpress / New drug could slow the development of Alzheimer's
"Compound 10" is how Ursula Quitterer refers to the chemical compound that her team has developed and that could slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Quitterer is a professor of molecular pharmacology at ETH Zurich ...
Medical Xpress / Music listening shows no mental health benefit in 20,000 twin records
For many, music is a source of comfort, a mood booster and a remedy for loneliness. But does frequently listening to music actually lead to better mental health? A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...
