Neurologists should counsel people with early Parkinson’s disease about the benefits and risks of starting treatment with levodopa, dopamine agonists, or monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) inhibitors for motor symptoms, new guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) stated. If treatment is started, levodopa is the preferred initial therapy for most early Parkinson’s patients, wrote
By Marisa Guerin, PhD I have long been struck by the language of war and violence that is associated with cancer, but it hasn’t been a personal concern…. until now. A few months ago, I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood plasma, and I now find myself sorting through my feelings
Cuando desgraciadamente una persona en permiso de salida, tercer grado o libertad condicional comete un delito, se cuestiona la necesidad de estas figuras. Pero ¿qué sabemos del régimen abierto? Desmontemos algunos prejuicios y expliquemos algunas realidades. La Ley General Penitenciaria española de 1979 establece un sistema progresivo de cumplimiento de la pena de prisión. A
El habla ha evidenciado presentar altos patrones de especificidad, componente asociado a los requerimientos necesarios para la activación neuroplastica. Por este motivo, una de las principales temáticas de análisis se relaciona con la especificación de los patrones particulares de reclutamiento y contracción muscular asociados a la específica ejecución del habla. Si te gusta este video,
Taking that first step towards working with a therapist can feel like both a huge hurdle and an achievement worth celebrating. But how much do we really know about our therapists, and what we should be looking for when seeking help? Conversations around mental health have become much more commonplace. Whether it’s in the workplace,
In a recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv*, researchers assess the need for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination in children who are 12 years of age or younger. To this end, the researchers compared the clinical characteristics observed in unvaccinated children during the Delta surge (B.1.617.2) in China with that of a vaccinated
Communities across the province’s northeast have continued recruitment efforts amid Ontario Medical Association reports that northern Ontario is short more than 300 doctors. In Greater Sudbury, Health Sciences North has recruited 36 specialty physicians so far this year. The hospital said it is looking to fill 14 vacancies for roles in a variety of fields,
Brain biopsies may be a quick, safe, and promising way of determining which patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are most likely to benefit from aggressive treatment, early research suggests. Dr Christopher Uff The study showed that a grading system that assesses four aspects of TBI based on brain biopsy is a better classification
Alzheimer’s disease: How is the treatment landscape changing? In that context, we spoke to an industry insider, Gene Kinney, CEO of Prothena, to get a perspective on R&D in the AD space. Prothena is developing a monoclonal antibody, PRX012, and vaccine that are reportedly showing promise in AD treatment and prevention. The company was spun
¿Seguir una dieta saludable o para bajar de peso significa que debes dejar la comida rápida? No necesariamente.Una parada ocasional para comer comida rápida puede encajar en una dieta saludable, si tienes cuidado con lo que pides. Considera estos consejos.Si el restaurante de comida rápida ofrece varios tamaños de sándwiches, elige el más pequeño. Evita
We’ve all become accustomed to seeing people dance online. Between YouTube videos and television shows, such as Dancing with the Stars, it seems as if we have seen it all. Then someone like Kenneth Allen Thomas comes along. He has been dubbed the “Dancing Dad” and his moves have gone viral. The thing is, he
File photo of Indira Gandhi International Airport, one of the busiest in the world, in New Delhi, India, on November 2, 2016. Nicolas Economou | NurPhoto | Getty Images After shutting its borders to international visitors for 20 months due to the pandemic, India will now allow fully vaccinated foreign travelers from a list of
Some new strains of Covid-19 are not being picked up by standard PCR tests, reveals leading testing expert Dr Quinton Fivelman. He warns that new mutations mean some variants are not being picked up by the standard, widely-used, single gene tests. The PCR (polymerase chain reaction) blood test is considered the ‘gold standard’ in detecting
Researchers at University of California San Diego have produced a single-cell chromatin atlas for the human genome. Chromatin is a complex of DNA and protein found in eukaryotic cells; regions of chromatin at key gene regulatory elements appear in open configurations within certain cell nuclei. Precisely delineating these accessible chromatin regions in cells of different
While many people fully recover from COVID-19 after overcoming the infection, some are left with symptoms that continue to persist way after battling the disease. This phenomenon has been baffling scientists and medical experts for months. But key findings are starting to shed light on what could really be causing long COVID. What Is Long
Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The proportion of hypertensive patients with blood pressure control fell substantially in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, if the data from 24 health systems is representative of national trends. The decline in blood pressure control corresponded with – and might be
Sustainable, ‘boring’ protein, made to order: The Protein Brewery looks to US market with fermented fungi protein While Quorn has been in a field of one for many years when it comes to growing fungi in fermentation tanks (it started selling mycoprotein, a strain of filamentous fungi Fusarium venenatum, in the 1980s) a flurry of startups has
In the summer of 2021, a toxic, smoky haze stemming from Western wildfires wafted across large parts of the United States, while hurricanes wrought extensive flooding in the southern and eastern U.S. Air quality websites such as AirNow warned of hazardous conditions on the U.S. East Coast from Western forest fires 3,000 miles away, with
Materials Dipeptides (Tyr-Pro, Pro-Tyr, Tyr-His, His-Tyr, Tyr-Trp, Trp-Tyr, Phe-Pro, Pro-Phe, Phe-His, His-Phe, Phe-Trp, Trp-Phe, Ile-Pro, Trp-Pro, and His-Pro) were purchased from Kokusan Chemical (Tokyo, Japan). AdipoRon was obtained from Cayman Chemical (Ann Arbor, MI, USA). Insulin and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO, 99.9%) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM), fetal
As Asia Pacific emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic the region plans to fall back on traditional and complementary medicine to enhance health care delivery with support from the WHO. At a meeting of the WHO’s Western Pacific Region on 28 October, health ministers adopted a resolution to improve access to safe, effective and “culturally accepted
“It’s nothing major, but provides more loose change from the pharma sofa cushion.” — Thomas Miller, JD, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, discussing one of the healthcare provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure bill. “In science we must always ask, is it causation or association.” — Sharon Zarabi, RD, CDN, of Lenox Hill Hospital/Northwell
El crecimiento de las economías y la mejoría en los indicadores de pobreza de varios países africanos trajeron la promesa de un aumento en la calidad de vida para la población del continente en las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, África tenía que alcanzar estas expectativas partiendo de los niveles más altos de pobreza en el