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There are dozens of studies, innovations, and research findings released everyday by institutions and clinics across the world. Heres a look at some of the other notable health reports from May 17.

Time-Restricted Eating May Lower CVD Risk for Older Breast Cancer SurvivorsOlder breast cancer survivors with cardiometabolic risk factors who restricted food intake to eight hours during the weekday, followed by 16 hours of fasting, lowered their risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) after a few weeks, according to a new research letter publishing today inJACC: CardioOncology.

Community-Focused Strategy Improves Vaccine Uptake in Black and Latino CommunitiesNew research from Boston Medical Center (BMC) shows how intentionality and partnership between community leaders and medical health centers can improve COVID-19 vaccination uptake in Black and Latino communities.

McMaster researchers discover how to reduce severe tissue damage from some viral infectionsMcMaster University researchers have found not only how some viral infections cause severe tissue damage, but also how to reduce it.

Concussion symptoms in children may have multiple underlying causesResearchers unlock potential pathways for treatment by focusing on the relationships between the symptoms of concussions and the nature of the injury.

mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna fare better against COVID-19 variants of concernA comparison of four COVID-19 vaccinations shows that messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna perform better against the World Health Organizations variants of concern (VOCs) than viral vector vaccines AstraZeneca and J&J/Janssen.

New tool developed by WVU researchers makes it easier to identify pregnant patients with eating disordersAt least 5%of pregnant women will experience aneating disorderduring their pregnancies, yet no rapid screening tool exists to identify who they are.

Organic polymeric scintillators excite X-ray communityEfficient strategy for metal-free polymeric scintillators with multicolor radioluminescence for high-resolution X-ray imaging opens a new avenue of research for low-cost, flexible radioluminescent polymeric materials.

Many historically redlined California communities have higher COVID-19 incidence and mortalityOne of many legacies of redlining could also be increased incidence and mortality charges of COVID-19 affecting the largely minority and poor residents of those neighborhoods, in response to analysis printed on the ATS 2022 worldwide convention.

Scientists Use Machine Learning Models to Help Identify Long COVID PatientsClinical scientists used machine learning (ML) models to explore de-identified electronic health record (EHR) data in theNational COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), a National Institutes of Health-funded national clinical database, to help discern characteristics of people with long-COVID and factors that may help identify such patients using data from medical records.

IOMF-funded study determines orgasmic meditation is more comparable to meditation than sexNew research supported by theInstitute of OM Foundation (IOMF), based in Santa Rosa, CA, documents the profoundly positive effect of Orgasmic Meditation, commonly known as OM, for many looking to achieve the overall benefits of meditative practice, according to IOMF-backed researchers.

COVID-19s devastating toll: An rise in adolescent mental health crises and suicidalityA new study led byPatricia Ibeziako, MD, associate chief of clinical services in theDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Servicesat Boston Childrens Hospital, shows that the situation worsened with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Private Health Plans During 2020 Paid Hospitals 224 Percent of What Medicare Would PayPrices paid to hospitals during 2020 by employers and private insurers for both inpatient and outpatient services averaged 224 percent of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states, according to a new RAND Corporationreport.

Henry Ford Cardiologist to Perform a Live Heart Procedure at International Medical Education EventFor the third straight year,Henry Ford Hospital interventional cardiologist Khaldoon Alaswad, M.D.will perform a live heart procedure as part of an international interactive medical education event, with proceeds benefiting hospitals in Ukraine.

Infrared imaging to measure glymphatic functionDynamic infrared tracer imaging uses affordable and widely available equipment to obtain the temporal resolution necessary to evaluate glymphatic flux within the brain.

Scientists See Signs of Traumatic Brain Injury in Headbutting MuskoxScientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai saw for the first time hallmarks of concussions and other head trauma in the brains of deceased headbutting animalsmuskoxen and bighorn sheep.

Statins may provide protection against depressionStatins have been hailed as a wonder drug; the cholesterol-lowering drugs have been prescribed to tens of millions of people since their approval in the late 1980s to prevent heart attack and stroke.

Predictable Home Environment Protects Against Development of Heart Disease Risk Factors After Child AbuseA new study shows for the first time that well-organized households protect children who have experienced abuse from developing some precursors to heart disease.

Alternative to open heart surgery just as effective for patients with common heart conditionA study led by researchers at theNational Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centrehas shown that a less invasive heart procedure for a common condition is just as effective as conventional open-heart surgery.

Milestone clinical study shows postbiotic urolithin A improves muscle strength and exercise performance in middle-aged adultsNew research by scientists in Switzerland shows supplementation with urolithin A had exercise-like effects on muscle strength, improving it by 12% after 4 months.

Protein linked to intellectual disability has complex roleResearchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a previously unknown function for the fragile X protein, the loss of which is the leading inherited cause of intellectual disability.

Scientists Nail Down Destination for Protein That Delivers ZincDiscovery reveals a key mechanism that all living things use to transport a trace element essential for survival.

Guidelines to ensure assessment of patient symptoms and quality of life is ethicalIna new studypublished inJAMA, experts in the Universitys Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research with international collaborators, set out the guidelines, designed to ensure clinical research which includes patient-reported outcomes is ethical, inclusive, equitable and optimal.

Big study answers treatment question for little known kidney conditionThe largest ever randomised controlled trial in IgA nephropathy has found that treatment with methylprednisolone a cheap, widely used corticosteroid drug halves the risk of losing kidney function and kidney failure, and that this can be effectively achieved with fewer side effects if a reduced dose is used.

Analysis of Supportive Evidence for US Food and Drug Administration Approvals of Novel Drugs in 2020In this study, the cohort of 2020 novel drug approvals continued a trend of new drugs being supported by smaller numbers of preapproval pivotal trials and fewer features traditionally associated with rigor.

Association of Congenital and Acquired Cardiovascular Conditions With COVID-19 Severity Among Pediatric Patients in the USIn this cohort study of 171416 US individuals aged 2 months to 17 years with SARS-CoV-2 infection, cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock, heart surgery, cardiopulmonary disease, heart failure, hypotension, nontraumatic cerebral hemorrhage, pericarditis, and biventricular defects were associated with increased COVID-19 severity.

Evaluation of Age Patterns of COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity From March 2020 to October 2021 in the USAll analyses for this cross-sectional study were conducted using provisional monthly data for March 1, 2020, through October 31, 2021, from the National Center for Health Statisticsand monthly population estimates for 2020 and 2021 from the US Census Bureau.

Desktop Air Curtain System Prevents Spread of COVID-19 in Hospital SettingsIn efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, miniaturizing air curtains for hospital wards, labs, and other health care settings is gaining traction as a viable solution to inadequate face masks or when social distancing is not a realistic option.

Phage Therapy: A Model to Predict Its Efficacy against Pathogenic BacteriaResearchers from Inserm, Universit Sorbonne Paris Nord and Universit Paris-Cit at the IAME Laboratory, in close collaboration with their counterparts at Institut Pasteur and the Paris Public Hospitals Group (AP-HP), have developed a model to better predict the efficacy of phage therapy and possibly develop more robust clinical trials.

Prediabetes and Diabetes Screening Eligibility and Detection in US Adults After Changes to US Preventive Services Task Force and American Diabetes Association RecommendationsThe US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recently recommended lowering the starting age for diabetes screening to 35 years to facilitate earlier detection and treatment.

Study identifies first cellular chaperone for zinc, sheds light on worldwide public health problem of zinc deficiencyThe findings, reported in the journalCell, shed light on the public health issue of zinc deficiency and open an entirely new area of biology for exploration.

University Hospitals and UC Irvine announce new co-leadership of BravNet, a practice-based integrative medicine research networkUniversity Hospitals(UH)Connor Whole Health and Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute (SSIHI) at University of California, Irvine have joined in collaboration to leadBraveNet the first and largest whole health, practice-based research network in the U.S. BraveNet is a nationwide consortium comprised of academic health systems conducting evidence-based research on therapies used in integrative medicine, which is now more often known as whole health.

ATP from sensory neuron-interneuron crosstalk is key to spreading inflammation in Rheumatoid ArthritisA team of researchers from Japan and the USA, led by Professor Masaaki Murakami at Hokkaido University, have revealed that remote inflammation spreads by neuron crosstalk, and that adenosine triphosphate (ATP) plays a key role in this process.

Density, Benign Disease Raise Risk of Breast CancerWomen with dense breast tissue and benign breast disease face an elevated risk of future breast cancer and could benefit from a tailored mammogram screening strategy, according to a large study published inRadiology.

Choroid Plexus Volume Linked to Alzheimers DiseaseIncreased volume of the brains choroid plexus is linked to greater cognitive impairment and Alzheimers disease, according to a new study published inRadiology.

Geisel Researchers Receive $4 Million Grant to Improve Office Visit Interactions Between People Living with Dementia, Care Partners, and CliniciansA team of researchers at Dartmouths Geisel School of Medicine and New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine has received a $4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to improve triadic interactions between patients living with dementia, their care partners, and their clinicians.

Untapped Potential: Mineral Water Derived from Deep-Sea Water May Have Health BenefitsScientists determine the biological effects and most beneficial hardness of extract-added water derived from deep-sea water.

First U.S. study analyzing tooth survival after root canal in general populationTeeth survive about 11 years after a root canal, according to new research from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Dentistry.

Fighting COVID-19: Machine learning to optimise filtration effectiveness of face masksResearchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have successfully used machine learning in a study to improve the filtration effectiveness of Egyptian Cotton (EC) face masks.

University of Minnesota technology allows amputees to control a robotic arm with their mindUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have developed a more accurate, less invasive technology that allows amputees to move a robotic arm using their brain signals instead of their muscles.

Molecular probe links high-fat diet to nitric oxide levels, cancer developmentResearchers at the Beckman Institute deployed a molecular probe to demonstrate a direct link between a high-fat diet and heightened nitric oxide levels, which can lead to increased risk of inflammation and cancer development.

NEW: EULAR Publication on Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in People with Rheumatic DiseaseTherapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) refers to the principle of using blood concentrations of biopharmaceuticals to guide therapeutic decisions. EULAR the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology has developed a set of new points to consider to support TDM in people with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs).

Steps Should Be Taken Now to Protect Future Supplies of Infant and Pediatric FormulaA perspective published today in the American Society for NutritionsAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutritionaddresses the shortage of infant and pediatric formulas and offers recommendations to help prevent future occurrences and regain the publics trust in the safety and supply of infant and pediatric nutrition.

The war in Ukraine impacts patients with mental disordersDanish patients with mental disorders seem to have experienced a worsening of symptoms in connection with the invasion of Ukraine.

3D-printed acoustic holograms against Alzheimers or ParkinsonsA team from the Universitat Politcnica de Valncia (UPV), the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Columbia University (US) has created 3D-printed acoustic holograms and evaluated their potential in animal models to improve the treatment of diseases like Alzheimers and Parkinsons, among others.

HBP researchers reveal how the volumes of brain regions change in Parkinsons diseaseResearchers of the Human Brain Project (HBP) found that in Parkinsons disease the volumes of certain brain regions decrease over time in a specific pattern that is associated with clinical symptoms and largely coincides with the pattern described in Braaks famous staging theory.

Landmark Externally-Led Patient-Focused Drug Development Meeting on Schizophrenia Will Showcase Urgent Need for New & Better TreatmentsPeople living with schizophrenia and other psychosis spectrum disorders are too often misunderstood or ignored, and current treatments are outdated and can cause significant side effects.

Nearly half of patients at high risk for lung cancer delayed screening follow-upPreliminary studies to track patients perceived risk of developing lung cancer after a CT scan found that 47 percent had delayed care, according to a study published at the ATS 2022 international conference.

A highly sensitive detection strategy for biomarkers with controllable dynamic rangeIn this research, droplets motion behaviors on the surface were precisely controlled by adjusting the hydrophobic interaction between DNA droplets and lubricant-infused micro-grooves structural surface.

For large bone injuries, its Sonic hedgehog to the rescueA USC Stem Cell study innpj Regenerative Medicinepresents intriguing evidence that large bone injuries might trigger a repair strategy in adults that recapitulates elements of skeletal formationin utero.

New guideline refines care for brain bleeds: compression socks, some meds not effectiveSome treatments or preventive therapies used to manage intracerebral hemorrhages (ICH), or a bleedingstroke, are not as effective as previously believed, according to the new American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guideline for caring for people with spontaneous ICH, published today in the AssociationsStrokejournal.

Marking World Hypertension Day and emerging data on renal denervation: Three renal denervation trials point to effective long-term treatment of hypertensionMay 17th is World Hypertension Day whose theme Measure Your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control It, Live Longer is aimed at increasing awareness of hypertension worldwide.

2022 Andreas Grntzig Ethica Award: The Nursing and Allied Professional Community, at the heart of cardiovascular careOn the 19th of May the Andreas Grntzig Ethica Award, the highest honour in the interventional cardiology community, will be awarded at EuroPCR 2022 to the Nurses and Allied Professionals community in recognition of the essential role they play in advancing the cardiovascular field, serving in a substantial and immediate way the needs of each individual patient.

Climate action, pandemic preparedness and One Health: Science academies present statements for G7 summitAt the Science7 Dialogue Forum in Berlin/Germany on Tuesday, 31 May, the science academies of the G7 states will publish science-based statements on topics on this years agenda of the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau/Germany.

Nature Cardiovascular Research: A CNIC team creates a dynamic 3D atlas of embryonic heart formationResearchers from theNational Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) have created a 3D atlas of the process of heart formation in its embryonic phase, from a collection of mouse samples.

New health professional training blueprint to transform chronic pain careResearchers have developed a new national blueprint to help health professionals support the one in five Australians living with chronic pain, costing the Australian economy $139 billion every year.

NIR-II-Responsive Nickel-Based Therapeutics Provide New Solution for Synergistic OncotherapyA polyethylene glycol-modified urchin-like nickel nanoclusters (PUNNC) with an applied 9T magnetic field, when used for photothermal enhanced chemodynamic synergistic therapy under near-infrared (NIR)-II radiation, can efficiently kill tumor cells in vitro and inhibit tumor tissue growth in vivo, according to a paper published onTheranosticsrecently.

Study uncovers biomarkers that predict response and side effects from immunotherapy for liver cancer patientsA research team from Singapore has identified novel biomarkers that not only predict a patients response to immunotherapy, but also the adverse events they may experience from the same immunotherapy used to treat primary liver cancer hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Change of temperature causes whole body reprogrammingUNIGE scientists have discovered that changes in temperature cause marked and organ-specific effects in all tissues.

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Other Notable Health Studies & Research From May 17, 2022 - Study Finds

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