A new University of Alberta study shows that losing weight before knee replacement surgery doesn't lead to better outcomes for patients. In a systematic review published in Joint Bone Spine,…
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Early promise for therapy against Duchenne muscular dystrophy
An experimental gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy shows promise, a small study suggests. The severe form of muscular dystrophy—which affects about one in 3,500 males born each year in…
FDA: All alcohol-based hand sanitizers from Mexico on ‘import alert’
All alcohol-based hand sanitizers from Mexico have been put on "import alert" until their safety can be assessed, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there…
Personalizing cardiac medicine with models
Computational models of the heart could be a precious tool for cardiologists during diagnosis and decision making. They can help with the interpretation of a patient's clinical measurements to discover…
Three mental health conditions contribute to violent offenses, study finds
Western Carolina University researchers find a disproportionate number of inmates with violent offenses suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder and alcohol use disorder, and published their findings in the…
Fetal and neonatal therapies improve prognosis of congenital cytomegalovirus infection
A cross-institutional research group has revealed for the first time in the world that infants with symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection who were treated with a combination of immunoglobulin fetal…
Brush that loosens cells in pancreatic cysts could become weapon against cancer
In a potential step forward for early pancreatic cancer diagnosis, a miniaturized brush was successfully tested as a possible technique for loosening cells from the walls of pancreatic cysts. If…