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When it comes to studying food and diet, it’s difficult to know what people are eating — let alone their risk of disease caused by what they eat. Doctors and researchers usually ask people to fill out a long-from food frequency questionnaire that estimates caloric intake, food groups and nutrients. That relies on a person’s …
Article courtesy of Dr. Joel Kahn, MD, who is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, one of the world’s top cardiologists, a best-selling author, lecturer, and a leading expert in plant-based nutrition and holistic care. You are at the doctor’s office for your annual physical exam, maybe age 45, …
Researchers have developed a new protocol for monitoring acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common cancer in children, to inform more effective treatment strategies and detect disease recurrence. The personalized mediator probe PCR (MP PCR) uses multiple genomic cancer cell markers in a single assay and is simpler than current techniques. It improves monitoring clonal …
Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have developed a new blood test to measure the pace of biological aging. Based on an analysis of chemical tags on the DNA contained in white blood cells, called DNA methylation marks, the new test is named DunedinPACE, after the Dunedin Birth Cohort used to develop …
Artificial intelligence tools and deep learning models are a powerful tool in cancer treatment. They can be used to analyze digital images of tumor biopsy samples, helping physicians quickly classify the type of cancer, predict prognosis and guide a course of treatment for the patient. However, unless these algorithms are properly calibrated, they can sometimes …
PNAS recently published a report discussing the demographic perspectives on the rise of longevity that reviews some key strands of demographic research on past trends in human longevity and explores possible future trends in life expectancy at birth. Abstract: Demographic data on age-specific mortality are used to estimate life expectancy, and validated data on exceptional …
A recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv (medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports) from researchers at the University of Illinois and Brookhaven National Laboratory discusses the effect of the persistent contact heterogeneity factor on the final epidemic size of COVID-19. The paper says that using estimates based on this measure reduced the herd immunity …
We are poised to enter a new decade, and in terms of health food this may be a whole new realm as this past year has brought forth plant based meat and probiotic backed pantry goods. If you think the industry won’t get more innovative you may want to rethink that, as the industry is …
University of Melbourne reveals epileptic seizure prediction of up to 90% improvement is possible in a wider range of patients than was once thought due to crowdsourcing upwards of 10,000 algorithms from around the world, as published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology. 65 million people are estimated worldwide to be affected by epilepsy which …