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Researchers from the Arnold Healthy Kids Initiative and Research Center for Child Well-Being have continued publishing results from their three-year study examining the health effects of providing free summer camp for children from low-income households.
A new X-ray imaging technique could transform how hospitals analyze tissue samples, potentially speeding up diagnoses and improving outcomes for patients, shows a new study led by UCL researchers. The technology, developed in collaboration with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rigaku Americas and Creatv MicroTech, Inc., produces crisp 3D maps of biological tissue without cutting or staining samples, a significant improvement on the conventional process used in histopathology—the process of examining tissue to study, diagnose and treat diseases, particularly cancer.
People experiencing unsheltered homelessness often navigate a treacherous world in which the choices available to them are very limited. They do it with compelling ingenuity and deftness. But while they are functional, they are also fragile. For many of us living in the Salt Lake Valley, we often look forward to seasonal changes. A big winter snowstorm means the opportunity to recreate and enjoy our state's natural beauty. Or when heat waves bake the valley in August, we might spend the day relaxing at a mountain lake.
Patients with leptomeningeal metastasis (LM) have historically had few treatment options. Now, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a combination of targeted therapies, tucatinib and trastuzumab, plus the chemotherapy drug, capecitabine, may improve symptoms and extend survival in some breast cancer patients with LM.
Rutgers-Newark researchers have shown that a genetic variant specific to African ancestry alters the brain in a way that could foretell the eventual development of Alzheimer's Disease. At the same time, their study revealed some good news: A far more well-known genetic mutation doesn't seem as malevolent in African Americans as it is in people of primarily European descent. The finding may help explain why African Americans develop Alzheimer's at more than twice the rate than people whose genetic ancestry is mostly European. The results will appear in the May edition of Neurobiology of Aging.
A study has found that precise application of radio waves can change the activity of brain cells in ways that could counter neurological conditions. Led by researchers at NYU Langone Health, the work introduces a technique called transcranial radio frequency stimulation (TRFS), which promises to treat neurological diseases with neither the invasiveness of surgery nor the frequent failure of drugs as patients (e.g., 30% of people with depression and epilepsy ) develop resistance.
Researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine report encouraging results from a phase 2 clinical trial evaluating a candidate vaccine to prevent hookworm infection—one of the world's most common parasitic diseases. The findings, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, show that a formulation of the investigational vaccine significantly reduced the intensity of infection in healthy adult volunteers exposed to the parasite under carefully controlled conditions.