Collaborate Disseminate
Did you hear about a new virus sweeping through kids in India? It’s called “tomato flu,” and according to some reports we all should be very concerned. But it turns out “tomato flu” is not new, has potentially been around in some form for at least 15 y… Continue reading How the media got its “tomato flu” coverage so very wrong
A large international clinical trial has found combining three common heart disease drugs into the one pill is significantly more effective at preventing cardiovascular events and death compared to administering each of the medicines separately.Continu… Continue reading Trial finds combining 3 drugs into 1 pill cuts heart disease deaths
Research published in The New England Journal of Medicine has reported positive Phase 3 trial results for a new monoclonal antibody treatment targeting rheumatoid arthritis. The novel therapy is hoped to offer a new option for patients struggling with … Continue reading New rheumatoid arthritis drug passes Phase 3 trial, looks to approval
New research presented at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society has raised concerns that many tattoo inks contain chemicals that may be damaging to human health. Analyzing nearly 100 currently used tattoo inks the researchers found many ink… Continue reading New research points to potentially harmful chemicals in tattoo ink
A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry has reported results from the first ever double-blind, placebo-controlled trial testing psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to treat alcohol use disorder. The headline results are promising, finding nearly half of… Continue reading Psilocybin alcoholism trial highlights problem for psychedelic science
New research points to an easily measured eye response to light as a potentially useful way of diagnosing autism in very young children. Further testing is currently underway in a large cohort of children and a simple device to screen pupil responses h… Continue reading Pupil light response proposed as biomarker to diagnose autism
We’re all maybe a little bit surly the day after a sleepless night, but a new study suggests selfishness can be directly related to how well rested we are. The robust research offered evidence, from both an individual and a societal level, to demonstra… Continue reading How an epidemic of poor sleep may be making us a more selfish society
New data from an annual drug-use survey supported by the US National Institutes of Health has found recreational use of psychedelics among older adults in the US is at the highest point ever-recorded in the survey’s nearly 40-year history. The data als… Continue reading Annual US drug survey finds use of psychedelics at a record high
A compelling new study indicates Parkinson’s disease (PD) could be diagnosed by remotely tracking a person’s breathing patterns. Led by researchers from MIT, the study presents an AI system that uses radio waves to monitor breathing while a person sleeps.
Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle
Tags: Parkinson’s Disease, Diagnosis, Sleeping, Sleep, Breathing, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Network, MIT
Continue reading AI detects Parkinson’s disease by tracking your breathing patterns
A new study published in Nature Communications has homed in on a part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that seems to be shared across all known variants. The research also reveals an antibody fragment that can hypothetically block the virus from enterin… Continue reading Antibody “master key” discovery could neutralize all COVID variants