Be prepared—keeping food safe during power outages
The Food Safety Information Council has issued food safety advice for consumers about how to be prepared for power outages.
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Be prepared—keeping food safe during power outages
The Food Safety Information Council has issued food safety advice for consumers about how to be prepared for power outages.
Authentic communication can reduce risky teen drinking
While fear-based messaging around alcohol aimed towards teens is common practice, new research suggests a key to curbing adolescents’ risky drinking behavior is through authentic and open communication that acknowledges some of the positive aspects while warning of the negative consequences of drinking.
Lack of regulations, oversight in health care IT can cause harm
New ILR School-led research offers a comprehensive overview of the role of health information technology (IT) in the financialization of the health care industry—the extent to which Silicon Valley and Wall Street investors have profited on health IT systems that have often failed to deliver promised gains.
Patient with nerve cell cancer in remission for 18 years following CAR-T therapy
A patient has achieved over 18 years of remission from neuroblastoma, a type of nerve cell cancer, following treatment with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy and without requiring any additional treatments. The findings are published in Nature Medicine.
MRI could reduce the mystery of brachial plexus injuries in infants
About one in 1,000 children are born with brachial plexus birth injury (BPBI), upper extremity weakness or paralysis resulting from trauma to the brachial plexus nerves during childbirth.
Radiation plus combination immunotherapy may help preserve bladder in some patients with cancer
Patients with localized muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who received radiation plus the immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) durvalumab (Imfinzi) and tremelimumab (Imjudo) had durable responses that allowed for bladder preservation, according to results from the IMMUNOPRESERVE clinical trial published in Clinical Cancer Research.
Sweet taste receptors in the heart: A new pathway for cardiac regulation
In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses “sweet taste” receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with sweet substances can modulate the heartbeat. This research opens new avenues for understanding heart function and potentially for developing novel treatments for heart failure.
Novel antibody discovery platform may inform Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research
In diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, specific proteins misfold and clump together, forming toxic aggregates that damage brain cells. The process of proteins spontaneously clumping is called protein aggregation and researchers have developed novel methods to generate aggregate-specific antibodies as specific probes or modulators of the aggregation process.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says antidepressants are harder to quit than heroin—is he right?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been sworn in as the US health and human services secretary, despite saying a few things that raised eyebrows during his confirmation hearing. One of those things was the claim that some people have a harder time coming off antidepressants than they do coming off heroin. He was referring specifically to the current generation of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.