NPR Health
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disperse for costs such as equipment and administration.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Pharmaceutical ads are difficult to avoid in American television programming and a growing number of them promote a class of medications called JAK inhibitors, using an acronym that assumes the average TV watcher knows exactly what JAK stands for.
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NPR Health
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Many groups that rely on a federal payment portal started experiencing problems accessing funds last week. HHS says "technical issues" are to blame and lag times continue.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Mitochondria are essential for generating energy that fuels cells and helps them function.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Years ago, a young patient's mother told Emily McCourt, MD, associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, that she hadn't used a prescribed ointment to treat her baby's chemical corneal burn but instead used her own breast milk.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
New research details the subcellular structures in neurons that enable signals to be transmitted from where they are received at specific sites on dendrites to the decision-making cell body located hundreds of micrometers away. The new research finds that the endoplasmic reticulum and the plasma membrane form contact sites where specialized molecules control the release of calcium, which regulates the signals sent along the dendrite to the soma.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
New evidence from a large population-based cohort analysis indicates an increased risk of both attempted and completed suicide among individuals diagnosed with headache disorders. Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark found that individuals diagnosed with migraine, tension-type headache, posttraumatic headache, and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia face an increased risk of suicide.
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Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
A UCLA research team has found that drugs being sold as fentanyl contain high amounts of the industrial chemical bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate, or BTMPS. This new substance of concern emerged in the illicit drug supply nearly simultaneously in multiple U.S. locations from coast-to-coast.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The clot-dissolving medication, alteplase, improved stroke patients' recovery by more than 50% when given up to 24 hours after the beginning of an ischemic stroke, according to preliminary late-breaking science presented today at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2025. The conference, in Los Angeles, Feb. 5-7, 2025, is a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Removing a blood clot from a large brain artery, then injecting the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase into the artery resulted in stroke survivors being more likely to have better function 90 days after their stroke than those receiving standard clot removal, according to preliminary late-breaking science presented today at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2025.
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Around 50% of Australian young people have engaged in choking, or strangulation, during sex. This practice involves one person putting pressure on the neck of another, restricting breathing or blood flow (or both).
Medical Xpress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is expected to clear the final hurdles in his confirmation as President Donald Trump's health secretary, and a host of health influencers have proclaimed that widely used cooking oils such as canola oil and soybean oil are toxic.
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