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A more accurate and faster diagnostic technique for neurodegenerative diseases could open the door for earlier treatment and alleviation of the likes of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The groundbreaking process developed by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers, significantly improves the performance of advanced protein-misfolding detection methods in both humans and animals. A protein is said [...]
Women with clogged arteries are at higher risk of heart attacks and may need stronger treatment postmenopause than men of similar age. The results of a study in nearly 25,000 adults presented at a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology - EACVI 2023 - in Barcelona and also published in European Heart Journal [...]
Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki and his wife have donated $6.2m to develop a new software platform that could revolutionise the study and treatment of brain disorders, such as dementia. Neuroblox is a cutting-edge programme that will model brain circuits to treat a range of neurological disorders like dementia, epilepsy, ADD, schizophrenia, and bipolar [...]
Heart attacks could soon be diagnosed faster and more accurately thanks to a new test developed with artificial intelligence. It's hoped the UK-led breakthrough could reduce the pressure on accident and emergency departments and help end inequalities in diagnosis, which previous research has shown sees women 50% more likely to get a wrong initial prognosis. [...]
A new artificial intelligence tool may be able to successfully identify people at risk of pancreatic cancer up to three years in advance. The breakthrough AI model used patients' medical records and information from previous scans to detect those at risk of the deadly disease, which can be hard to catch early, difficult to treat, [...]
Soldiers exposed to the shock waves from military explosives may be at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's in later life. A study supported by the Leonard Wood Institute in Missouri in cooperation with the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), has found that the brains of otherwise healthy military personnel who are exposed to explosions [...]
We grudgingly accept we will lose muscle strength and slow down as we get older, making it more difficult to walk, sit down, and get up. But new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Western Australia published in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, indicates this could also be a signal for another sinister age-related [...]
The man behind an innovative exercise and rehabilitation system to screen patients at risk of serious falls, believes it will "revolutionise" the way the primary care sector deals with what has become a massive global problem linked to ageing. Tim Henson has spent the last decade and hundreds of thousands of pounds developing the Formula [...]
Scientists have unwrapped what could be a sweet fix for ageing bones. A team from Dresden in Germany have designed novel bio-inspired molecules based on long-chained sugars to boost bone regeneration in mice. Now the multi-disciplinary team is applying for funding for a pre-clinical study to further develop their work as they look to transfer [...]
To rephrase a well-known saying, you wait decades for an Alzheimer's breakthrough to come along, and then two potential new drugs that could slow the progression of the disease are unveiled within months of each other. This week American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly reported its donanemab drug has shown positive results in a late-stage trial, [...]
