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Medicine18 May 2025

Wearable sensor could be used to monitor OSA treatment response

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:15 a.m., Sunday, May 18, 2025 Session: A20—Innovating Sleep Diagnostics: Emerging Approaches from Acoustics to Retinal Imaging Sensor-Based Digital Health Technology Enables Digital Medicine for Sleep-Related Breathing Diseases Date and Time: Sunday, May 18, 2025, 9:15 a.m. Location: Room 303 (South Building, Level 3), Moscone Center ATS 2025, San Francisco – A wearable pulse oximeter and connected software platform show promise for monitoring obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and other sleep-related ...

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Medicine18 May 2025

Waitlist deaths dropped under new lung transplant allocation system

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:15 a.m. PT/12:15 p.m. ET, Sunday, May 18, 2025 WAITLIST DEATHS DROPPED UNDER NEW LUNG TRANSPLANT ALLOCATION SYSTEM Session: A14—Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of ILD Improvement in Wait List Mortality for the Most Critically Ill Since the Implementation of the CAS Date and Time: Sunday, May 18, 2025, 9:15 a.m. Location: Room 25, Hall E (North Building, Exhibition Level), Moscone Center ATS 2025, San Francisco – Two years ago the United Network for Organ Sharing implemented new allocation guidelines for lung transplants that prioritize medical urgency. Now ...

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Science18 May 2025

Methotrexate as effective as prednisone in pulmonary sarcoidosis

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:15 a.m. PT/12:15 p.m. ET, Sunday, May 18, 2025 Session: A14—Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of ILD Methotrexate Versus Prednisone as First-line Treatment for Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: The Predmeth Trial Date and Time: Sunday, May 18, 2025, 9:15 a.m. Location: Room 25, Hall E (North Building, Exhibition Level), Moscone Center ATS 2025, San Francisco – Prednisone is recommended as the first-line treatment for pulmonary sarcoidosis, but this steroid causes a number of unwanted side effects. Now new research published at the ATS 2025 International Conference finds that methotrexate provides ...

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Medicine18 May 2025

Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence

Belgrade, Serbia – 18 May 2025. Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence, according to research presented today at Heart Failure 2025,1 a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Obesity affects a substantial proportion of patients with heart failure (HF) and it has been reported that the risk of HF increases as body mass index (BMI) increases.2 Study presenter, Dr. Amra Jujic from Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, explained why the current analysis was carried out: “BMI is the most common measure ...

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Environment18 May 2025

Climate change increases severity of obstructive sleep apnea

Session: A109—Smoke, Snooze, and ICU Blues: The Influence of Environmental Exposures and Critical Care Conditions on Sleep Rising Temperatures Are Associated with Increased Burden of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Date and Time: Sunday, May 18, 2025, 2:15 p.m. Location: Room 2022/2024 (West Building, Level 2), Moscone Center ATS 2025, San Francisco – Rising temperatures increase the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a large new study published at the ATS 2025 International Conference. The study also found that, under the most likely climate ...

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Medicine18 May 2025

USC, UCLA team up for the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant

LOS ANGELES — Surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health have performed the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant. The surgery was successfully completed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on May 4, 2025, in a joint effort by Inderbir Gill, MD, founding executive director of USC Urology, and Nima Nassiri, MD, urologic transplant surgeon and director of the UCLA Vascularized Composite Bladder Allograft Transplant Program. Groundbreaking moment in medical history “This surgery is a historic ...

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Medicine18 May 2025

Two out of five patients with heart failure do not see a cardiologist even once a year and these patients are more likely to die

If you have cancer, you expect to see an oncologist, but if you have heart failure you may or may not see a cardiologist. According to research published in the European Heart Journal [1] today (Sunday), only around three out of five heart failure patients see a cardiologist at least once a year. The study, also presented at Heart Failure Congress 2025, shows that patients who do see a cardiologist once a year are around 24% less likely to die in the following year. It also shows which patients could benefit from seeing a cardiologist once a year and which patients should be seen more often. The ...

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Medicine17 May 2025

AI-enabled ECG algorithm performs well in the early detection of heart failure in Kenya

Belgrade, Serbia – 17 May 2025. An artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiogram-based algorithm performed well in the early detection of heart failure among healthcare-seeking individuals in Kenya, according to late-breaking research presented today at Heart Failure 2025,1 a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Heart failure is highly prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa, where patients are often younger and face worse outcomes than in high-income countries.2 Explaining the rationale for ...

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Medicine17 May 2025

No cardiac safety concerns reported with a pharmaceutically manufactured cannabidiol formulation

Belgrade, Serbia – 17 May 2025. A pharmaceutically produced cannabidiol formulation had a good overall safety profile, including cardiac safety, according to research presented today at Heart Failure 2025,1 a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Currently, there are limited treatment options for inflammatory conditions of the heart, such as myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart). Cannabidiol – which lacks the psychotropic effects of cannabis – has been shown to inhibit activation of the inflammasome pathway,2 an intracellular ...

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Science17 May 2025

Scientists wash away mystery behind why foams are leakier than expected

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have solved a long-standing mystery behind the drainage of liquid from foams. Standard physics models wildly overestimate the height of foams required for liquid to drain out the bottom. Through careful observation, the team found that the limits are set by the pressure required to rearrange bubbles, not simply push liquid through a static set of obstacles. Their approach highlights the importance of dynamics to understanding soft materials. When you spray a foam on a wall, ...

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Science17 May 2025

TIFRH researchers uncover a mechanism enabling glasses to self-regulate their brittleness

Materials with self-adaptive mechanical responses have long been sought after in material science. Using computer simulations, researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad, now show how such adaptive behavior can emerge in active glasses, which are widely used as models for biological tissues. The findings provide new insights—ranging from how cells might regulate their glassiness to aiding in the design of new metamaterials. Glasses (or amorphous solids) are materials whose components ...

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Energy17 May 2025

High energy proton accelerator on a table-top — enabled by university class lasers

Laser Ion acceleration uses intense laser flashes to heat electrons of a solid to enormous temperatures and propel these charged particles to extreme speeds. These have recently gained traction for applications in selectively destroying cancerous tumor cells, in processing semiconductor materials, and due to their excellent properties - for imaging and fusion relevant conditions. Massive laser systems with several Joules of light energy are needed to irradiate solids for the purpose. This produces a flash of ions which are accelerated to extreme speeds. Thus, emulating large million volt accelerators is possible ...

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Science16 May 2025

Life, death and mowing – study reveals Britain’s poetic obsession with the humble lawnmower

University of Cambridge media release Life, death and mowing – study reveals Britain’s poetic obsession with the humble lawnmower UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL 00:01AM (UK TIME) ON SATURDAY 17TH MAY 2025 Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a ‘lawnmower poetry microgenre’, using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, addiction, mortality and much more, new research shows. The study, published today in Critical Quarterly, argues that the tradition goes back to the 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing – with a scythe – to comment ...

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Medicine16 May 2025

Ochsner Transplant Institute’s kidney program achieves ELITE Status

NEW ORLEANS – Ochsner Health proudly shares its kidney transplant program, part of the Ochsner Transplant Institute, has been awarded ELITE Status within the credentialed Programs of Excellence transplant network by INTERLINK COE Networks & Programs. ELITE Status is awarded to only a select few programs nationwide certifying delivery of superior transplant care. To earn this level of recognition, programs demonstrate superior results and exceptional performance based on a range of validated, risk-adjusted metrics. Programs with this designation achieve an INTERLINK Performance Model score statistically ...

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Medicine16 May 2025

Gender differences in primary care physician earnings and outcomes under Medicare Advantage value-based payment

About The Study: In this cohort study, women primary care physicians in value-based payment models had equal or better quality outcomes and higher value-based earnings compared to men in their practice groups. These results substantiate prior evidence that women physicians perform better on process and outcome measures, yet receive incommensurate patient ratings. The reversal of the gender gap under value-based payment is likely due to fewer emergency department visits and hospitalizations among women primary care physicians’ patients and may in turn reflect better alignment of value-based models to practice patterns more ...

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Science16 May 2025

Can mindfulness combat anxiety?

By Chris Woolston If you’re anxious about work, finances, the state of the world, or anything else, you might try a moment of mindfulness. Paying close attention to the present moment without judgment — the basic idea behind all mindfulness techniques — can help calm anxiety and improve focus, said Resh Gupta, a postdoctoral research associate with the Mindfulness Science and Practice research cluster. “A lot of research has shown that mindfulness can reduce anxiety symptoms,” she said. The calming power of mindfulness is well-known to people ...

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Medicine16 May 2025

Could personality tests help make bipolar disorder treatment more precise?

People with cancer, heart disease and other conditions have come to expect treatments that their medical teams “personalize” just for them, based on tests. But care for mental health conditions hasn’t gotten to that point yet. Now, a new study suggests that it might be possible to personalize care for people with bipolar disorder, using the results of detailed personality tests. The research finds that such tests might help identify people who have certain combinations of personality traits ...

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Medicine16 May 2025

Largest genomic study of veterans with metastatic prostate cancer reveals critical insights for precision medicine

TAMPA, Fla. (May 16, 2025) — In the largest clinical genomic profiling study of non-Hispanic Black men with metastatic prostate cancer to date, researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, University of California Los Angeles and the Veterans Affairs (VA) National Precision Oncology Program found key differences in tumor biology between non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic white veterans, but similar survival outcomes when both groups had equal access to care. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, analyzed data from more than 5,000 U.S. ...

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Technology16 May 2025

UCF’s ‘bridge doctor’ combines imaging, neural network to efficiently evaluate concrete bridges’ safety

Necati Catbas doesn’t hold a medical degree, but the UCF engineering professor is more than qualified to diagnose the health of bridges using a combination of emerging technologies. Catbas collaborated with his former civil engineering student Marwan Debees ’23PhD, who now works as a NASA Bridge Program manager, on newly published research that details how infrared thermography, high-definition imaging and neural network analysis can combine to make concrete bridge inspections more efficient. Catbas and Debees are hopeful that their findings, recently published in the Transportation Research Record, can be leveraged by engineers ...

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Medicine16 May 2025

Scientists discover key gene impacts liver energy storage, affecting metabolic disease risk

PHILADELPHIA (May 16, 2025) – A new study published in Science Advances reveals that a single gene plays a big role in how the liver stores energy, a process that's critical for overall health and for managing diseases like type 2 diabetes. Led by Penn Nursing’s Kate Townsend Creasy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, the research focuses on the PPP1R3B gene. This gene tells the liver how to handle energy: store it as glycogen (a form of sugar) or triglycerides (a type of fat). The research team ...

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Engineering16 May 2025

Study finds that individual layers of synthetic materials can collaborate for greater impact

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Millions of years of evolution have enabled some marine animals to grow complex protective shells composed of multiple layers that work together to dissipate physical stress. In a new study, engineers have found a way to mimic the behavior of this type of layered material, such as seashell nacre, by programming individual layers of synthetic material to work collaboratively under stress. The new material design is poised to enhance energy-absorbing systems such as wearable bandages and car bumpers with multistage ...

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Science16 May 2025

Researchers find elevated levels of mercury in Colorado mountain wetlands

Climate change is melting glaciers and permafrost in the mountains outside of Boulder, Colorado, exposing rocks and freeing up minerals containing sulfate, a form of sulfur, to flow downstream into local watersheds. CIRES researchers studied the impacts of sulfate in mountain wetlands and confirmed that elevated levels can increase methylmercury, a potent neurotoxin that accumulates up the food chain and can lead to a wide range of health concerns. “Very little research has looked at methylmercury production in high-elevation wetlands,” said ...

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Environment16 May 2025

Study reveals healing the ozone hole helps the Southern Ocean take up carbon

New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, but only if greenhouse gas emissions rapidly decrease. The study, led by the University of East Anglia (UEA), finds that as the ozone hole heals, its influence on the ocean carbon sink of the Southern Ocean will diminish, while the influence of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will rise. Relative to its area, the Southern Ocean takes up a disproportionate amount of carbon, which reduces the radiative effects of carbon in the atmosphere and strongly mitigates human-caused climate change. Therefore, knowing how much carbon it will absorb, and what controls this ...

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Medicine16 May 2025

Ultra-robust hydrogels with adhesive properties developed using bamboo cellulose-based carbon nanomaterials

Hydrogels have long been recognized for their potential in various applications, including tissue engineering, drug delivery, and wearable electronics. However, traditional hydrogels often lack the mechanical strength and durability needed for demanding applications. Now, researchers from Southwest Forestry University in China have developed an innovative solution using bamboo cellulose-based carbon nanomaterials (C-BCN) to create an ultra-robust hydrogel with remarkable properties. The study, published in the Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, details ...

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Science16 May 2025

New discovery about how acetaminophen works could improve understanding about pain relievers

A new study from Indiana University scientists may aid the pharmaceutical industry in better understanding a popular over-the-counter pain reliever: Tylenol. Michaela Dvorakova, a postdoctoral researcher at IU’s Gill Institute for Neuroscience and the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Gill Institute research scientist Alex Straiker published the study in Cell Reports Medicine. Their discovery, which details a previously unknown way the drug targets pain, could change how pharmacologists think about treating pain, and aid in designing safer and more effective pain medications. The researchers found ...

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