A new Australian study has found that a simple saline nasal spray could help many children breathe and sleep better, potentially avoiding the need for surgery and specialist care.
Category: 8. Health
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Saline nasal spray found to ease sleep apnea symptoms in children
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When Vaping Shows Up in a Doctor’s Office
Vaping usually sits in the same conversations about habits and health risks as traditional tobacco products, not medical prescriptions. That makes it easy to miss how the same technology is used under medical supervision. In regulated care,…
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Reversing Blindness With Electronic Retinas
Electronic retinal implants like the PRIMA system can partially restore central vision in people with severe retinal disease, marking a major step toward practical artificial sight. This approach uses a chip, camera glasses and a processor to…
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Drug-induced pneumonitis: The risk behind new cancer therapies
Advances in lung cancer treatment have changed survival in ways that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Targeted drugs, immunotherapies, and emerging antibody–drug conjugates are helping many patients live longer—and live well. But these…
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The Incentive Problem in Healthcare and Jacob Fuchs’s Journey to Fix It
As a pharmacist by training and a builder by instinct, Jacob Fuchs, founder of Premier Pharma, approaches healthcare with a systems-level mindset shaped by years of hands-on experience. He has dedicated his work to creating infrastructure that…
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China Has Screwed Up Really, Really Badly
For many decades, the Chinese government attempted to limit population growth through a one-child policy — only to abolish the rule in 2016 as it realized that the number of annual births had started to plummet at alarming levels.
The…
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Anti-FAP CAR T cells produced in vivo reduce fibrosis and restore liver homeostasis in metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis | Science Translational Medicine
CAR T cells generated in vivo by T cell–targeted mRNA-LNP delivery eliminated scar-forming cells and ameliorated fibrosis in steatotic liver disease.
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Quantitative assessment of neonatal health using dried blood spot metabolite profiles and deep learning | Science Translational Medicine
Newborn screen metabolites encapsulate the risk for adverse outcomes of prematurity through a deep learning–based metabolic health index.
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In silico screening and preclinical validation identify bavisant as a therapeutic candidate for multiple sclerosis | Science Translational Medicine
The histamine receptor H3 antagonist bavisant promotes neuroprotection and remyelination in cell and mouse models of multiple sclerosis.
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Inhaled nitric oxide at 300 ppm treats multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas pneumonia in swine and is safe in humans | Science Translational Medicine
A swine and human study shows that treating multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia with inhaled high-dose nitric oxide is safe.
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