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Researchers in the UK and Turkey have developed a contact lens which can detect changes in eye pressure which signal possible glaucoma. The condition occurs when the optic nerve becomes damaged, usually by a build-up of fluid in the front part of the eye which increases pressure inside the eye – known as intra-ocular pressure [...]
A team intervention, provided by phone, leads to persistent improvements in depression, anxiety and quality of life for people managing chronic illnesses, new US research has found. The researchers at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus also found that the improvement in quality of life results last months after intervention concludes. David Bekelman, MD, MPH [...]
Researchers in Denmark are one step closer to understanding why more men than women are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In a the new study, researchers at Aarhus University shed light on a specific receptor called CD163, a protein expressed mainly in blood-immune phagocytic cells. This protein is involved in the immune response during the neurodegenerative [...]
Living in poverty with chronic inflammation significantly increases heart disease and cancer mortality risk, a new US study has found. The University of Florida research showed that health outcomes for Americans living in poverty and with chronic inflammation are significantly worse than expected from their separate health effects. Lead author Dr Arch Mainou is a [...]
The first participant has been recruited to a pioneering clinical trial for people with a sleep behaviour disorder who have a higher risk of developing Parkinson’s. The double-blind trial, funded by the charity Parkinson's UK, is investigating a drug called PXS-4728 in people with isolated rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (iRBD). Joe, the first [...]
A new US study has for the first time revealed the function of a little-understood junction between cells in the brain that could have important treatment implications for conditions ranging from multiple sclerosis (MS) to Alzheimer’s disease. The research is published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. In the study, neuroscientists focused on the synapse connecting [...]
The five winners of a brand new challenge from a collaboration of regulators and healthcare organisations in the UK and US were announced this week. The challenge saw 25 teams of AI and machine learning developers from across the globe compete against each other to build models that predicted heart failure-related health outcomes for veterans. [...]
Researchers in the US have uncovered a role for a gene called OXR1 that is necessary for the lifespan extension seen with dietary restriction and is essential for healthy brain ageing. The research is published in the journal Nature Communications. Kenneth Wilson, Ph.D., a Buck Institute postdoc and first author of the study, said: “When [...]
New research from the US has revealed how a pathway inside cells essential for activating inflammatory immune response is unleashed to prevent cancer formation by detecting DNA damage within cells. In doing so, the research team discovered the key that unlocks the cGAS/STING pathway, which is normally turned off to prevent excessive inflammation in healthy [...]
New research has identified the skin microbiome as a potential new link to signs of skin ageing. To the best of the researchers' knowledge, the study is the first to isolate microbes associated specifically with signs of skin ageing and skin health, rather than chronological age. The results come from a collaborative study from researchers [...]
