Health

In the recreation room at Eskaton Village in Carmichael, one of the residents, Bonnie Dale, is trying on a virtual reality (VR) headset. Source link

If you’ve ever read a food label and felt more than a little confused, you’re not alone. Since 2014, Australian shoppers have relied on the Health Star rating scheme to help them choose which foods to eat. This system ranks food products on a scale ranging from half a star to five stars, to help…

Researchers have identified a promising new speech biomarker that could significantly enrich clinical trials by reducing sample size requirements and enhancing statistical results. By using speech latency, participants likely to show a high placebo response can be identified and excluded. Source link

Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a blood-based biomarker that may help identify patients with glioblastoma who are most likely to achieve long-term survival from novel treatment with an engineered oncolytic virus, delta-24-RGD, that targets and eliminates cancer cells. Source link

A new study has found that patients with long COVID tracks who had higher levels of known blood markers of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia had an increased size of a key brain structure and less blood supply. Source link

The residential segregation policy of the 1930s to 1960s has been linked to shorter survival times in people with breast cancer. New research shows that this association has changed over time, with disparities decreasing until recently. The findings are published in Cancer. Source link

UN leaders warned Friday that some 4.5 million girls worldwide – many of whom are under the age of five – are at risk of female genital mutilation this year, and urged more action to stop the harmful practice. Source link

Sepsis, a leading global cause of hospital deaths, occurs when the body’s response to infection causes tissue damage and organ failure. Africa bears the highest burden of sepsis in the world, with an estimated 48 million cases each year resulting in approximately 11 million deaths. People living with HIV have the greatest risk of dying…

A keto diet may help reduce depression in people who are not responding to antidepressant medications, a new study reports. People on the keto diet had slightly fewer symptoms of depression after six weeks than those who were encouraged to eat more plant-based foods, researchers report in JAMA Psychiatry. Source link

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Darzalex Faspro (daratumumab and hyaluronidase-FiHZ) in combination with bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (D-VRD) for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) ineligible for autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT). Source link