https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for treatment of chronic pain in the back and/or lower extremities is associated with greater improvements in pain compared with conventional medical management (CMM), according to a review published online Nov. 14 in JAMA Network Open. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-spinal-cord-chronic-pain.html Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:03:02 EST news651344581 Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered that old grandfather clocks and human cells have a central thing in common: They move in synchronization. This strengthens the performance of our cells and makes them better at combating diseases This new knowledge is an important step towards understanding and preventing diseases such as cancer and diabetes and has been published in the prestigious journal Cell Systems. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-body-cells-synchronize-pendulum-clocks.html Tue, 08 Aug 2023 06:22:34 EDT news610694546 In the 17th century, the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens hung two of his recently invented pendulum clocks on a wooden beam and observed that as time passed, the clocks aligned their beats. He reported this finding, which he called an "odd sympathy," in 1665. Three and a half centuries later, neurons in the brain were found to sync their activities in a similar way. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-neurons-sync-clocks-wall.html Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:12:45 EDT news578675562 A novel new therapy has been found to reduce harmful plaque in arteries and change its composition so it is less likely to rupture and cause a heart attack, following a clinical trial led by the Victorian Heart Institute (VHI) at Monash University. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-game-changing-therapy-cholesterol-stabilize-plaques.html Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:20:45 EDT news566817642 Extremely painful chronic cluster headaches—sometimes referred to as 'suicide headaches' – can be prevented by stimulating the occipital nerve in the back of the head, according to research conducted by Professor Emeritus of Neurology Michel Ferrari from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). The study showed that nerve stimulation reduces the frequency and severity of attacks in patients who could not be treated with medication. The researchers reported in The Lancet Neurology that some subjects continued to feel the benefits for several years. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-nerve-effective-patients-untreatable-cluster.html Mon, 21 Jun 2021 10:12:27 EDT news543489144 Last week we heard Queensland-based biotech company Microbio had developed a test that could, according to media reports, tell whether someone is a COVID-19 superspreader. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-covid-superspreader.html Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:54:06 EDT news523011244 Delaying school start times in the UK is unlikely to reduce sleep deprivation in teenagers, research from the University of Surrey and Harvard Medical School has found. The research, conducted in collaboration between mathematicians and sleep scientists, predicts that turning down the lights in the evening would be much more effective at tackling sleep deprivation. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-03-mathematicians-school-wont-deprived-teenagers.html Tue, 28 Mar 2017 02:35:42 EDT news409887326