Clinical depression is considered one of the most treatable mood disorders, but neither the condition nor the drugs used against it are fully understood. First-line SSRI treatments (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) likely free up more of the neurotransmitter serotonin to improve communication between neurons. But the question of how SSRIs enduringly change a person’s mood … Read more
In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of Boston, a base packed with 45,000 soldiers preparing to ship out for the battlefields of France. … Read more
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to call the HPV vaccine a medical miracle. “It’s like the gift that keeps giving,” says Mark Jit, a professor of vaccine epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Not only is it the sole vaccine that can prevent cancer, “we discover it’s an even better vaccine … Read more
The gene edit also helped limit the spread of the virus. Four ordinary chickens were placed in the same incubator with the gene-edited birds that had already been exposed to high levels of the virus. Out of the four, only one became infected. Researchers monitored the gene-edited birds over the course of two years and … Read more
Suddenly, Franks realized she had another meeting to get to, and here she was in a room full of free-ranging rats. She couldn’t just open the door and leave—rats would surely escape. But catching each rat and putting it back into the hutch would take forever. “I think, you know, we should probably get them … Read more
With any organ transplant, doctors are trying to balance how to prevent infections while tamping down the immune system. Without immunosuppressive drugs, the transplant organ will be rejected. But giving patients too much of these drugs makes them susceptible to infections. That’s what researchers think happened in Bennett’s case. To treat the CMV infection, doctors … Read more
On the morning of September 11, critical care specialist Anoop Kumar was presented with an unusual situation. Four members of the same family had been admitted to his hospital—Aster MIMS in Kozhikode, Kerala—the previous day, all similarly sick. Would he take a look? He gathered his team of doctors to investigate. Soon they were at … Read more
The worldwide cholera surge drove a vaccine scarcity proper when nations wanted it most. Malawi previously used the cholera vaccine for prevention, however “now when you don’t have an outbreak, you don’t get the vaccine,” stated Otim Patrick Ramadan, WHO incident supervisor for regional cholera response in Africa. In response to the scarcity, the worldwide … Read more
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Medical imagery tends to burst with gore and horror, from grisly gashes and festering flesh to a cruel gush of different odious afflictions. However probably the most disturbing sights aren’t all the time probably the most grievous illnesses—as a latest case in Ohio demonstrates. A person there developed a very benign situation. His prognosis was … Read more
At present they use lab robots to fill the capsules, and they’re working to automate all the course of, which they name Pulsed, for Particles Uniformly Liquified and Sealed to Encapsulate Medicine. McHugh believes that this automation cuts prices and makes the tech scalable. Because of minor tweaks to the capsule recipe, the Pulsed particles … Read more