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Antibody reduces allergic reactions to multiple foods in NIH trial
Treatment significantly increased the amounts of multiple common foods that food-allergic children and adolescents could consume. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - December 19, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Paywalls Are Slowing the Quest For a Cancer Cure
Despite significant strides in research and treatments–from liquid biopsy to vaccines, from precision medicine to CAR T-cell therapy–cancer remains the leading cause of death across the globe, taking some 10 million lives annually. And beyond just the devastating human toll, cancer’s economic burden on patients and their families exceeds $21 billion each year, a number estimated to reach $25 trillion between now and 2050. Recognizing that there is still much to do if we hope to ever beat this insidious disease, the White House announced recently a $240 million investment in the reinvigorated C...
Source: TIME: Health - December 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julia Kostova Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

New portable PET scanner tested in humans
In this study, they aimed to establish the feasibility of the approach using an experimental scanner called CerePET (Brain Biosciences, Rockville, MD).Each of the 20 healthy volunteers underwent dynamic F-18 FDG imaging with both scanners one to 154 days apart. Standard radiotracer uptake values (SUV) in brain tissue and rates of glucose metabolism (CMRglu) were quantified and compared between the scanners at regional and voxel levels.According to the findings, outcome measures were well correlated, the group wrote. Specifically, correlation coefficients between the imaging sets across participants were 0.83 ± 0.07 fo...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 19, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news

NIH researchers create genetic atlas detailing early stages of zebrafish development
Zebrafish are a powerful model for studying embryonic progression in vertebrates. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - December 18, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

ASH: Female Researchers Receive Only One-Third of NIH R01 Grants
MONDAY, Dec. 18, 2023 -- From 2012 to 2022, female researchers were awarded only one-third of National Institutes of Health Research Project Grants (R01 grants), according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - December 18, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

W. Kimryn Rathmell, M.D., Ph.D., begins work as 17th director of the National Cancer Institute
Dr. Rathmell was selected by President Biden to succeed Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - December 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Shortened telomeres heighten risk of serious lung disease
The 46 human chromosomes are shown in blue, with the telomeres appearing as white pinpoints. The DNA has already been copied, so each chromosome is made up of two identical lengths of DNA, each with its own two telomeres. Credit: Hesed Padilla-Nash and Thomas Ried, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. In 2017, Cindy Sutherland caught a nasty cold she couldn't shake. After coughing nonstop for weeks, she went to urgent care and got a… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - December 16, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

News at a glance: AI rules for Europe, vaccines for Africa, and a union for NIH early-career researchers
HEALTH EQUITY A billion-dollar boost for vaccinemaking in Africa Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has committed up to $1 billion to bolster Africa’s ability to sustainably produce its own doses of lifesaving vaccines. Manufacturers based in Africa produce only 1% of the vaccine doses used on the continent. Last week, Gavi announced that with money left over from the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility—an effort to provide an equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines—it would create the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator (AVMA) to focus on preventing 11 priority infectious diseases. As ...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

NIH research identifies opportunities to improve future HIV vaccine candidates
Study suggests greater CD8+ T-cell activity may increase HIV immunity (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - December 14, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Scientists unveil complete cell map of a whole mammalian brain
NIH-funded atlas characterizes over 32 million cells across the mouse brain. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - December 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Reported drug use among adolescents continued to hold below pre-pandemic levels in 2023
New data show relatively low use of illicit substances, yet overdose death rates among teens have risen in recent years. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - December 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

NIH study shows how genes in retina get regulated during development
Genome topology map of human retina development lays foundation for understanding diverse clinical phenotypes in simple and complex eye diseases. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - December 12, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Smarter data, better care: empowering care homes to use data to transform quality of care
This report report makes key recommendations for the effective use of a national minimum dataset to deliver the best possible care in UK care homes and domiciliary care. The report sets out the barriers to and opportunities for collecting standardised care data. It contains insights from the National Institute of Health Research DACHA study and from interRAI as well as from other national and international studies using social care data. It summarises the accumulated experience of several research and data teams and reflects on the “state of the art” in minimum datasets.ReportPress release (Source: The Kings Fund - Hea...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - December 12, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Social care Source Type: news

AI predicts responses in patients with prostate cancer
An AI model based on F-18 DCFPyL PSMA-PET/CT images shows promise for predicting treatment response in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), according to a study presented November 30 at RSNA in Chicago. The deep-learning model was trained on PET/CT imaging from 128 patients and identified a high-risk subgroup who may benefit from focused care or alternative therapies, said Andrew Voter, MD, of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, MD.“Despite widespread adoption of prostate-specific membrane antigen [PSMA] PET/CT imaging for prostate cancer, prognostication of patient outcomes remains cha...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 12, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Molecular Imaging Genitourinary Radiology Source Type: news

Nanoplastics may help set the stage for Parkinson ’s risk
Scientists found that tiny plastic particles can enter nerve cells, impair breakdown of structures linked to Parkinson ’s disease, and harm certain brain regions in mice. (Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - December 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news