Research
AI is being harnessed by a partnership between IBM and US healthcare group Cleveland Clinic to help identify non-opioid chronic pain treatments. Globally, it is estimated that around one in five people live with pain and one in 10 will be diagnosed with chronic pain. But treating chronic pain with opioids remains challenge due to [...]
A team of researchers from the University of Nottingham have received funding to explore the capabilities of quantum computing for developing new drugs for myotonic dystrophy. Building on an initial award of over £1m, a team of researchers from the University of Nottingham, with partners Phasecraft and QuEra Computing Inc., are one of only eight [...]
Researchers at McMaster University in Canada have identified a new therapeutic approach to preventing cancer from spreading to the brain. In a new study, published recently in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, researchers Sheila Singh and Jakob Magolan discovered a critical vulnerability in metastatic brain cancer, which they say can be exploited with new [...]
Researchers have discovered how certain cells have the amazing ability to transform their function to help our bodies control our blood pressure. These cells include smooth muscle cells, which line our arteries. Normally, smooth muscle cells help control blood pressure by contracting and relaxing. But when blood pressure levels decrease significantly and for long periods, [...]
Dutch Scalp Cooling Registry: The Largest Real-World Multi-Centre Analysis of Determinants for Scalp Cooling Efficacy, continues to provide critical insights into mitigating chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA). This cumulative study, spanning 13 years and involving 7,424 patients across 68 hospitals in the Netherlands, is the most comprehensive source of data on scalp cooling available to date. The [...]
The working environment must be improved to improve the retention of A&E doctors, according to the first ever study of why emergency doctors stay - rather than why they leave. The study in the BMJ Open entitled “How do we retain doctors in emergency medicine?” is by Dr Dan Darbyshire from Lancaster University Medical School, [...]
Minimally invasive surgeons at UC San Diego Health are the first in the nation to evaluate the potential use of spatial computing apps on Apple Vision Pro in the operating room. This feasibility study was initiated after two months of testing in the Center for the Future of Surgery at the University of California San [...]
New research used intracranial electroencephalography (icEEG) tests – where small electrodes are inserted into the substance of the brain to measure electrical impulses – to track the brain activity of nine patients being evaluated for surgical treatment of medication-resistant epilepsy. Genomic testing showed that none of the participants had known genetic epilepsies that are already [...]
Out-of-body experiences, such as near-death experiences, can have a “transformative” effect on people’s ability to experience empathy and connect with others, a new paper has suggested. The work explores the complex relationship between altered states of consciousness and empathy but could lead to new ways to foster empathy during a particularly fractured time for American [...]
A new study has revealed that mindfulness meditation engages distinct brain mechanisms to reduce pain compared to those of the placebo response. Pain is a complex, multifaceted experience shaped by various factors beyond physical sensation, such as a person’s mindset and their expectations of pain. The placebo effect, the tendency for a person’s symptoms to [...]
