(HealthNewsDigest.com) – HOUSTON – Help for patients with sickle cell disease may soon come from gene editing to fix the mutation that causes the disease and boost the patient’s own protective fetal hemoglobin.
Month: June 2019
Wearable Motion Detectors Identify Subtle Motor Deficits in Children
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A wristwatch-like motion-tracking device can detect movement problems in children whose impairments may be overlooked by doctors and parents
Newfound Autoimmune Syndrome Causes Muscle Pain, Weakness
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A previously unknown autoimmune muscle disease involving sudden onset of debilitating muscle pain and weakness has been identified by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Reversed in Lab
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – About 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, making it the most lethal infectious disease worldwide. A growing rise in drug-resistant TB is a major obstacle to successfully treating the illness.
Snapshot of Chikungunya Could Lead to Drugs, Vaccines for Viral Arthritis
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Chikungunya virus, once confined to the Eastern Hemisphere, has infected more than 1 million people in the Americas since 2013, when mosquitoes carrying the virus were discovered in the Caribbean.
Immune Cells Determine How Fast Certain Tumors Grow
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Tumors arise when cells shake off their restraints and start to multiply out of control. But how fast a tumor grows does not depend solely on how quickly the cancer cells can divide, a new study has found.
Combination of Water Scarcity and Inflexible Demand Puts World’s River Basins at Risk
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Irvine, Calif., – Nearly one-fifth of the world’s population lives in a stressed water basin where the next climate change-driven incident could threaten access to an essential resource for agriculture, industry and life itself….
POLO Trial for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: a New Standard of Care
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Treatment with the drug olaparib significantly reduced the risk of disease progression or death from metastatic pancreatic cancer….
Mount Sinai Researchers Study Caregiving in Homes and a Health Care Workforce in Transition
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – NEW YORK, NY – As older Americans choose to remain in their homes late in life, shifting care away from the institutional setting, many questions are surfacing about how to ensure the best outcomes for them.
Low Rate of Serious Upper-Spine Injuries in NCAA Football Players
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Collegiate football players have low rates of serious or disabling injuries of the upper (cervical) spine, concludes an analysis of a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) database, reported in the journal Spine.
New Device Sheds Light on Mechanism, Efficacy of Arthritis Treatment
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ITHACA, N.Y. – The debate over how one of the most popular osteoarthritis treatments should be federally regulated could change….
Sticking to Sports Can Help Kids Adjust
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Thinking of getting your child to take up a sport that involves a coach or instructor? Good news: a new study finds that children who engage in organized physical activity at a young age are less likely to have emotional difficulties by the time they turn 12.
For Latinos with Diabetes, New Study Looks at Ways to Improve Medication Adherence
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – LOS ANGELES — Latino adults have higher diabetes rates than non-Latinos, yet research shows they are less likely to correctly follow medication instructions provided by their doctors.
Columbia Nursing Study Finds Link Between Healthcare Associated Infections and Nurse Understaffing
(HealthNewsDigest.com – NEW YORK (June 4, 2019) A unit-level nurse staffing study conducted by Columbia University School of Nursing found an association between nurse understaffing and healthcare associated infections (HAIs) in patients….
Experts Address National Shortage of Home Care Nurses for Children
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Child health experts from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago offer recommendations to address the national shortage of nurses who provide care at home for children with serious chronic health conditions often caused by complications of premature birth.
New Research Addresses Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation after Aortic Valve Replacement
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Physician-scientists have published findings that conclude a substantial burden of new-onset atrial fibrillation was observed after transcatheter aortic valve implantation and aortic valve replacement.
Stalk Antibodies Provide Flu Protection in Humans
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR—A universal flu vaccine that could prevent a potential influenza pandemic has been a holy grail for epidemiologists around the world ever since the first flu vaccines were developed in 1938.
Traditional Chemotherapy Still Gold Standard Over New Targeted Therapy for HER2-positive Breast Cancers
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Results of a phase 3 clinical trial by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that women with HER2-positive breast cancer had significantly better response rates….
Smartphone Relaxation App Helps Some Manage Migraine
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Migraine sufferers who used a smartphone-based relaxation technique at least twice a week experienced on average four fewer headache days per month, a new study shows.
Pre-existing Pressure Injuries Offer Clinical Clues
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Pre-existing pressure injuries cannot replace sophisticated systems for scoring the severity of illness in critically ill patients, but their presence does quickly identify patients at greater risk for longer hospital stays and increased mortality.