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Medical Xpress / Metabolic monitoring tech could help identify more donor lungs for transplantation
More than three-quarters of donated lungs offered for transplantation are not used, according to the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, contributing to a chronic shortage of organs for patients with end-stage ...
Medical Xpress / A neuron's molecular clock: NMDA timing shapes the flow of information
In the brain, what matters is not only whether a signal reaches a nerve cell, but also how long its chemical gate remains open. A team led by Dr. Mehdi Borjkhani from the International Centre for Translational Eye Research ...
Medical Xpress / Physical activity may protect older adults from hearing loss
Researchers from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (COMD) have partnered with faculty from across the Arnold School and USC to complete a study investigating the connections among physical function, blood ...
Medical Xpress / Combination therapy may improve immune response against advanced prostate cancer
Combining the targeted therapy olaparib with an additional immunotherapy may improve immune response in a subgroup of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who responded poorly to initial treatment, ...
Medical Xpress / Thalamus actively contributes to the development of visual circuits, study reveals
A team led by researcher Guillermina López-Bendito at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has shown that the ...
Medical Xpress / Trial testing out-of-body experiences produces unexpected twist
A test to determine whether people who report out-of-body experiences could identify objects in another room produced results no better than chance. But afterward, something strange happened: Two participants described, unprompted, ...
Medical Xpress / Autism linked to 14-year gap in life expectancy
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States face a 14-year deficit in life expectancy, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and University of Colorado ...
Medical Xpress / C. diff coordinates threat response to survive in gut, study finds
The pathogen Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)—a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections—must contend with a variety of threats inside the harsh environment of the gut to survive and grow. Researchers at Vanderbilt ...
Medical Xpress / Beyond B cells: Rituximab response may reveal which kidney disease patients can stop steroids
Nephrotic syndrome is caused when the filtering system in the kidneys is damaged, allowing large amounts of protein to leak into the urine. It is usually treated with steroids, but in some cases, steroids alone are insufficient, ...
Medical Xpress / Neural response measurements may offer new clues to how depression-related thoughts become automatic
Our brains do a lot of things automatically without a reasoning process involved—regulating our autonomic nervous system, for starters, and more mundane things like watching where we step so we don't trip. Our brains even ...
Medical Xpress / Biodegradable drug-delivery nanoparticles curb brain plaque proteins and improve memory in Alzheimer's mice
A family of nanoparticles—tiny, biodegradable molecules commonly used to deliver drugs to patients—shows promise in treating Alzheimer's disease without additional medication, according to new research from a University of ...
Medical Xpress / AI eye-image filter preserves disease signs while protecting patient identity
A medical informatics team at Jena University Hospital has introduced a privacy-compliant method for the AI-driven generation of realistic eye images. While the synthetic images remain suitable for diagnostic analysis, it ...
