Archive: 16/01/2018
Can training improve memory, thinking abilities in older adults with cognitive impairment?
Cognition is the ability to think and make decisions. Medication-free treatments that maintain cognitive health as we age are attracting the attention of medical experts. Maintaining the ability to think clearly and make ...
Jan 16, 2018
Oxysterols guide gut immune cells and are involved in inflammatory bowel disease
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report that cholesterol metabolites cause specific immune cells in the large intestine to move, which lies behind the formation of the immune system's important lymphoid tissue ...
Jan 16, 2018
Evidence supports 'weekend effect' for mortality after surgery
As for other types of medical care, surgery appears to be prone to a significant "weekend effect"— with higher odds of death when surgery is performed during or one or two days before the weekend, suggests a report in the ...
Jan 16, 2018
Insurance company requirements place heavy burden on physicians seeking to prescribe new cholesterol-lowering drugs
A rare glimpse into the prior authorization requirements implemented by public and private insurance providers across the country has found substantial administrative burden for a new class of medications for patients with ...
Jan 16, 2018
Scientists identify genes implicated in the high regenerative capacity of embryos and ESCs
Researchers at Insilico Medicine, AgeX Therapeutics and the Biogerontology Research Foundation have published a landmark study titled "Use of deep neural network ensembles to identify embryonic-fetal transition markers: repression ...
Jan 16, 2018