Newswise – A commonly used blood pressure drug may help improve frailty measures in prefragile elderly, according to a new study by researchers with UTHealth Houston. The study was published in The journals of gerontology. Prefragile adults are adults who show signs of becoming fragile. As adults become frail, they are particularly vulnerable to numerous …
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Newswise – CHAPEL HILL, NC – During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations, leaders, researchers and practitioners alike tried to cope with the stresses, strains and struggles inherent in a health crisis unprecedented in modern times. Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH of the UNC School of Medicine, who is investigating this issue extensively, has published two research …
Newswise – Bethesda, MD (May 13, 2022) – The more antibiotics prescribed to patients 60 years of age and older, the more likely they are to develop inflammatory bowel disease, suggesting that antibiotic use could explain part of the growth of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis in older people, according to a review of 2.3 …
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Newswise – New techniques to aid seizure diagnosis and surgical planning will benefit millions of epilepsy patients, but the path to progress has been slow and challenging. New research by Bin He of Carnegie Mellon University and his team, in collaboration with UPMC and Harvard Medical School, introduces novel network analysis technology that uses minimally …
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Newswise – The research team from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) clearly demonstrates for the first time that the effect on flow reverses based on the degree of property change due to the reaction in a flow reacting with the production of viscoelastic material, through experiments involving high precision rheological measurements and a …
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Newswise – A human enzyme converts chemicals produced by sea sponges and their synthetic derivatives into cell-killing compounds, shows a study published today in eVita. The finding suggests that it may be possible to develop new therapies for cancer or bacterial infections using this enzyme and similar natural or bio-inspired compounds. Pharmaceutical companies have been …
Newswise – A team of Clemson University scientists is making progress in understanding the relationship between certain enzymes that are normally produced in the body and their role in regulating obesity and controlling liver disease. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collected in 2017-18, more than 42 percent of …
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