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Medical Xpress / A blind retina isn't silent—and its noise may hinder efforts to restore sight
When retinitis pigmentosa takes a person's sight, the standard clinical test goes flat: no response, no signal, nothing. Yet the retina behind that flat line is anything but quiet.
Medical Xpress / Experimental drug shows potential for hard-to-treat heart disease
An experimental drug has been shown to improve symptoms, exercise capacity and heart failure status in patients with an inherited heart disease, according to a pair of newly published studies.
Medical Xpress / Cancer drug pushes mutant blood stem cells to become short-lived immune cells
The biologic drug interferon-alpha can benefit patients with blood cancers called myeloproliferative neoplasms by forcing mutant blood stem cells to become shorter-lived white blood cells, according to a study by Weill Cornell ...
Medical Xpress / Neuron cell bodies switch gene programs to steer growing axons, study finds
A new discovery by neuroscientists at Brown University's Carney Institute for Brain Science challenges long-held beliefs in neurobiology about how neurons extend axons to reach their targets.
Medical Xpress / Just 3 minutes with miniature horses and donkeys improves mood of teens
Interacting with animals can make people feel calmer, less lonely and less anxious. A new study from the University of California, Davis, shows that animals play an active role in shaping these interactions and their outcomes.
Medical Xpress / Stable answers help medical AI flag diagnoses clinicians can trust
AI agents could reliably support diagnoses and clinical decision-making in the future—provided sensitive health data are protected and clinicians can assess the reliability of individual AI-generated results. Researchers ...
Medical Xpress / Experimental cancer vaccine makes its own oxygen and gives T-cells a boost
When it comes to priorities in life, oxygen tops the list. Humans can go weeks without food and days without water. Take away the ability to breathe, however, and the clock starts ticking within minutes as the brain begins ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists pinpoint two brain regions that battle it out when deciding whether to take a risk
Every day, your brain runs the same calculation: Take a risk or play it safe? Your gas tank might be low, but there's just enough to make it to work on time. Do you stop and risk being late? If you're out of money at the ...
Medical Xpress / Recommendations updated for management of anemia in chronic kidney disease
In a clinical guideline published online Sept. 15 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, updated recommendations are presented for managing anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Medical Xpress / Learning reorganizes neural activity patterns to help distinguish important smells
Learning can change how the brain organizes sensory information, but researchers are still working out what those changes look like across large groups of neurons. One possibility is that the brain stores a familiar smell ...
Medical Xpress / Air pollutant exposure linked to heightened risk of death by suicide/suicidal thoughts
Exposure to air pollutants, especially small particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), may heighten the risk of death by suicide and suicidal thoughts, suggests a pooled data analysis of the available ...
Medical Xpress / Hot, dry weather can make you cough more—salty air might help
UNC School of Medicine researcher Brian Button, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and biophysics, and collaborators have identified how extremely dry air during heat waves can make the airways more sensitive and more likely ...
