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Placebo and anti placebo effects
The placebo effect refers to the feeling of health improvement in the human body due to positive expectations when receiving ineffective treatment, while the corresponding anti placebo effect is the decrease in efficacy caused by negative expectations when receiving active drugs, or the occurrenc...Read more -
Diet
Food is the paramount necessity of the people. The basic characteristics of diet include nutrient content, food combination, and intake time. Here are some common dietary habits among modern people Plant based diet Mediterranean cuisine The Mediterranean diet includes olives, grains, legumes (e...Read more -
What is Hypomagnesemia?
Sodium, potassium, calcium, bicarbonate, and fluid balance in the blood are the basis for maintaining physiological functions in the body. There has been a lack of research on magnesium ion disorder. As early as the 1980s, magnesium was known as the “forgotten electrolyte”. With the d...Read more -
Medical AI and Human Values
The Large Language Model (LLM) can write persuasive articles based on prompt words, pass professional proficiency exams, and write patient friendly and empathetic information. However, in addition to the well-known risks of fiction, fragility, and inaccurate facts in LLM, other unresolved issues ...Read more -
Age related hearing loss
After entering adulthood, human hearing gradually declines. For every 10 years of age, the incidence of hearing loss almost doubles, and two-thirds of adults aged ≥ 60 suffer from some form of clinically significant hearing loss. There is a correlation between hearing loss and communication impai...Read more -
Why Do Some People Develop Obesity Despite High Levels of Physical Activity?
Genetic predisposition may explain the difference in exercise effect. We know that exercise alone does not fully explain a person’s tendency to be obese. To explore the potential genetic basis for at least some of the differences, the researchers used steps and genetic data from a populatio...Read more -
New research on tumor cachexia
Cachexia is a systemic disease characterized by weight loss, muscle and adipose tissue atrophy, and systemic inflammation. Cachexia is one of the main complications and causes of death in cancer patients. In addition to cancer, cachexia can be caused by a variety of chronic, non-malignant disease...Read more -
The 89th CMEF in Shanghai
Bearing the trust of the development of global medical science and technology, it is committed to building an international first-class medical and health exchange platform. On April 11, 2024, the 89th China International Medical Equipment Expo opened a gorgeous prelude at the National Convention...Read more -
India launches new CAR T, low cost, high safety
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has become an important treatment for recurrent or refractory hematological malignancies. Currently, there are six auto-CAR T products approved for market in the United States, while there are four CAR-T products listed in China. In addition, a varie...Read more -
Antiepileptic drugs and autism risk
For women of reproductive age with epilepsy, the safety of anti-seizure drugs is critical for them and their offspring, as medication is often required during pregnancy and breastfeeding to reduce the effects of seizures. Whether fetal organ development is affected by maternal antiepileptic drug ...Read more -
What can we do about ‘Disease X’?
Since February this year, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Director of China’s National Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention Wang Hesheng have said that “Disease X” caused by an unknown pathogen is difficult to avoid, and we should prepare for and respond...Read more -
Thyroid Cancer
About 1.2% of people will be diagnosed with thyroid cancer during their lifetime. In the past 40 years, due to the widespread use of imaging and the introduction of fine needle puncture biopsy, the detection rate of thyroid cancer has increased significantly, and the incidence of thyroid cancer h...Read more -
10 babies had blackened faces, hands and feet
Recently, a newsletter article from Gunma University School of Medicine in Japan reported that a hospital caused cyanosis in a number of newborns due to tap water pollution. The study suggests that even filtered water can be inadvertently contaminated and that babies are more likely to develop me...Read more -
N-acetyl-l-leucine: New hope for neurodegenerative diseases
Although relatively rare, the overall incidence of lysosomal storage is about 1 in every 5,000 live births. In addition, of the nearly 70 known lysosomal storage disorders, 70% affect the central nervous system. These single-gene disorders cause lysosomal dysfunction, resulting in metabolic insta...Read more -
Heart failure defibrillation study
The main causes of death from heart disease include heart failure and malignant arrhythmias caused by ventricular fibrillation. Results from the RAFT trial, published in NEJM in 2010, showed that the combination of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) plus optimal drug therapy with car...Read more -
Oral Simnotrelvir for Adult Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Covid-19
Today, a Chinese self-developed placebo-controlled small molecule drug, Zenotevir, is on the board. NEJM> . This study, published after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemic has entered the new normal epidemic stage, reveals the tortuous clinical research process of the drug la...Read more -
The WHO recommends that pregnant women take 1000-1500mg of calcium
High blood pressure during pregnancy can lead to eclampsia and preterm birth and is a major cause of maternal and neonatal morbidity and death. As an important public health measure, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that pregnant women with inadequate dietary calcium supplements sup...Read more -
New treatments for Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common case of the elderly, has plagued most people. One of the challenges in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease is that the delivery of therapeutic drugs to brain tissue is limited by the blood-brain barrier. The study found that MRI-guided low-intensi...Read more -
AI Medical Research 2023
Since IBM Watson began in 2007, humans have been continuously pursuing the development of medical artificial intelligence (AI). A usable and powerful medical AI system has enormous potential to reshape all aspects of modern medicine, enabling smarter, more accurate, efficient, and inclusive care,...Read more -
What are the normative options in oncology clinical trials?
In oncology research, compound outcome measures, such as progression-free survival (PFS) and disease-free survival (DFS), are increasingly replacing the traditional endpoints of overall survival (OS) and have become a key trial basis for drug approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...Read more
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