Category: 6. Health

A Canadian study published in the JIMR Research Protocols, looked at how mobile health technology could help predict asthma flare-ups in children and teens before they happen. The Mobile Health for Kids With Asthma (MoKA) study, led by a team of…

Alzheimer’s disease is notorious for scrambling patients’ daily rhythms. Restless nights with little sleep and increased napping during the day are early indicators of disease onset, while sundowning, or confusion later in the day,…

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of AI-assisted colonoscopy in a real-world setting. AI-assisted colonoscopy resulted in significantly higher ADRs and APCs compared to standard colonoscopy (ADR, 35.9% vs. 26.4%; APC, 0.69 vs. 0.43)….

Ewing sarcoma is one of the most common bone cancers seen in children, and if it spreads, it can be deadly. One study found that under a quarter of children with multi-metastatic Ewing sarcoma survived five years after their…

In a follow-up on the Rift Valley Fever (RVF) outbreak in Senegal, country health authorities report 277 confirmed RVF cases in six districts in the northwest of the country- Saint-Louis (240), Matam (13), Louga (12), Fatick (8), Dakar (2) and…

A new approach to PET imaging offers a promising way for physicians to promptly identify patients who are at risk for poor functional recovery after a heart attack, according to new research published in The Journal of Nuclear…

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous illness with an unclear cause. The clinical hallmark of this condition is the presence of non-caseating granulomas in the affected organs, primarily the lungs and intrathoracic lymph nodes [5]. The…

Some genetic disorders-such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease-involve many mutations in a person’s genome, often with enough variation that even two individuals who share the same disorder might have a different…

New research from UCLA Health reveals that women continue to face barriers in accessing lung transplants compared to men, despite recent national policy changes aimed at making organ distribution more equitable. 

Female lung…