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Routine eye exams reveal stage 2 hypertension in half of diabetes patients

Diabetes opens people to other noncommunicable diseases like obesity, retinopathy and cardiovascular diseases like heart attacks and hypertension. A recent study by researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine sought to understand how common high blood pressure (B

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Family of drugs used for treating muscular dystrophy could improve brain tumor treatment

A drug from the same family licensed for use in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and blood cancer could transform the treatment of meningioma—the most common form of primary brain tumor in adults. Scientists at the Brain Tumor Research Center of Excellence at the Univers

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Scalable mindfulness model can help treat chronic low back pain

Low back pain affects over 600 million people and is the single leading cause of disability worldwide. New research from Boston Medical Center (BMC), the largest essential hospital in New England, suggests that the Optimizing Pain Treatment In Medical settings Using Mindfulness (

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Not all reproductive-aged women with kidney disease receive preconception counseling

Preconception counseling (PCC) for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains underused, according to a study published in the July issue of Kidney Medicine.

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Hidden risks after orthopedic surgery: International study identifies major triggers of po

Millions of orthopedic surgeries are performed globally every year, offering pain relief and restored mobility to patients. However, an international study published in JMIR Perioperative Medicine warns that the risk of postsurgical complications, particularly "silent" heart inju

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Telehealth navigator program improves blood pressure control among Black patients at feder

A new study led by researchers at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, with researchers from Boston University and Boston Medical Center, shows that a telehealth navigator program can significantly improve blood pressure control among Black patients with hypertension cared for

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Chain reaction in cells may be driving low energy in ME/CFS patients

Griffith University researchers have identified a key immune cell dysfunction in people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), offering new clues about the condition.

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African genetic data could change how essential medicines are prescribed

The dosage information for drugs used in HIV treatment, malaria, cancer care, pain management and transplantation is largely based on data from European patients and fails to include vital information about how essential drugs work in diverse African populations. A Wits-led polic

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Restoring lost senses: One technology for both artificial vision and touch

Patients with untreatable conditions such as sight loss or loss of motor function could be closer to a viable technology for restoring their lost sense within a faster time frame. This is due to the discovery that advanced brain interfacing technology used for both touch and visi

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AI-guided pathology analysis can help predict immunotherapy response in rare cancers

Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based analysis of tumor biopsies can predict responses to immunotherapy in a study of patients with rare cancers, published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Can

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Blood biomarkers could measure response to psychotherapy in patients with depression

Research by the Barcelona Institute for Biomedical Research (IIBB), part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and the Institut de Recerca Sant Pau (IR Sant Pau) provides some of the first evidence that psychological therapies act as biological stimuli that induce mole

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Treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy before symptoms emerge may improve motor function, cl

At Binghamton University, researchers were among the first to find ways to help patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) through the development of an effective drug. Now, they are continuing that work, looking to reduce its effects even earlier.

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