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Smarter blood tests could deliver faster diagnoses and improved outcomes

Smarter blood tests could deliver faster diagnoses and improved outcomes

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Small molecule modulation of protein corona significantly enhances deep plasma proteome profiling. Credit: Mahmoudi Group Medical professionals have long known that the earlier a disease is detected, the higher the chance for a better patient outcome. Now, a multidisciplinary team of Michigan State University researchers, in collaboration with experts from Karolinska Institute and the University …

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Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy

Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy

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A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., Oct. 12, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of …

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Radiologists could soon be using AI to detect brain tumors

Radiologists could soon be using AI to detect brain tumors

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Credit: Anna Shvets from Pexels A paper titled “Deep Learning and Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Detection and Classification” published in Biology Methods and Protocols shows that scientists can train artificial intelligence (AI) models to distinguish brain tumors from healthy tissue. AI models can already find brain tumors in MRI images almost as well as …

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Study challenges safety concerns over planned home births for low-risk pregnancies

Study challenges safety concerns over planned home births for low-risk pregnancies

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Kala Noel captured this image of the Wagar family welcoming their baby at a planned home birth. Credit: Melissa Cheyney, professor in the OSU College of Liberal Arts and a licensed midwife. In low-risk pregnancies, mothers and children are just as safe with a planned home birth as they are with a planned birth center …

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Q&A: A new medical AI model can help spot systemic disease by looking at a range of image types

Q&A: A new medical AI model can help spot systemic disease by looking at a range of image types

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Overview of BiomedParse and BiomedParseData. Credit: Natural Methods (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02499-w Artificial intelligence is making impressive strides in its ability to read medical images. In a recent test in Britain’s National Health Service, an AI tool looked at the mammograms of over 10,000 women and correctly identified which patients were found to have cancer. The …

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New nasal vaccine shows promise in curbing whooping cough spread

New nasal vaccine shows promise in curbing whooping cough spread

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aP-T-vant immunized mice eliminated B. pertussis from the lung and nasopharynx. Credit: npj Vaccines (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41541-024-00990-1 As whooping cough cases rise in the US, a new nasal vaccine developed by Tulane University may hold the key to reducing the spread of the highly contagious respiratory disease. Current pertussis vaccines are widely used and effective …

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Pre-workout beetroot juice found to improve fitness gains in late postmenopausal women

Pre-workout beetroot juice found to improve fitness gains in late postmenopausal women

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Drinking beetroot juice before a workout could enhance the benefits of exercise training in postmenopausal women, according to new research. The findings from the study are published in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, As we age, declining mobility can lead to a dangerous cycle that raises the …

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Diabetes meds metformin and GLP-1s can also curb asthma, research finds

Diabetes meds metformin and GLP-1s can also curb asthma, research finds

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Drugs already taken by millions of diabetes patients appear to also help slash asthma attacks by up to 70%, new British research shows. The two drugs are metformin, one of the most widely used diabetes medications, and the GLP-1 class of medications that includes Ozempic, Mounjaro and Saxenda. A study of nearly 13,000 people with …

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Tirzepatide yields sustained weight reduction in obesity and prediabetes, study finds

Tirzepatide yields sustained weight reduction in obesity and prediabetes, study finds

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For patients with obesity and prediabetes, three years of tirzepatide yields substantial and sustained weight reduction and a reduced risk for progression to type 2 diabetes, according to a study. published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, Ph.D., from the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues …

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