A smartphone app could enable greater participation in clinical trials for people with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a devastating neurological disorder that often manifests in midlife.
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Cardiac amyloidosis is a serious disease in which abnormal proteins (amyloids) accumulate in the heart muscle and impair heart function. As the disease leads to serious complications such as heart insufficiency and, in many ...
Mar 21, 2024
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Cutting-edge technology that analyzes clips of babies' movements can help speed up detection of cerebral palsy, according to a new study.
Mar 20, 2024
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In a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), neurologists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) showed that a simple skin biopsy test detects an abnormal form of alpha-synuclein, ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Our understanding of schizophrenia has increased greatly in recent years, as studies of large groups of people have identified a multitude of genetic variants that increase a person's risk of the disease. But each of those ...
Mar 19, 2024
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New research supported by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford's Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute highlights significant strides researchers have made in developing biomarkers for the early detection and ...
Mar 19, 2024
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Mechanical engineers at Duke University have devised a new type of diagnostic platform that uses sound waves to spin an individual drop of water up to 6,000 revolutions per minute. These speeds separate tiny biological particles ...
Mar 13, 2024
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There is a high burden of typhoid fever in sub-Saharan African countries, according to a new study published in The Lancet Global Health. This high burden combined with the threat of typhoid strains resistant to antibiotic ...
Mar 12, 2024
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Jointly developed by investigators of the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology's (VHIO) Radiomics Group and the Bellvitge University Hospital's Neuroradiology Unit, the Diagnosis in Susceptibility Contrast Enhancing Regions ...
Mar 11, 2024
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The 'ultrasound-photoacoustic dual-modal imaging system' combines molecular imaging contrast with ultrasound imaging, and it can visualize molecular and structural information inside the body in real time without any ionizing ...
Mar 11, 2024
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