When rats are fed a high fat diet, this disturbs the body clock in their brain that normally controls satiety, leading to over-eating and obesity. That’s according to new research published in The Journal of Physiology. The number of people with obesity has nearly tripled worldwide since 1975 (1). In England alone, 28% of adults are […]
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How can we manage the inevitable rise of common childhood illnesses as kids go back to school? Dr Punam Krishan, GP gives advice on how we can manage sickness in in the “new normal” post lockdown world. “Nobody anticipated a pandemic and having never lived through one before, it has been a steep learning curve […]
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WHO, Germany open Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin: New hub’s mission is to provide the world with better data, analytics and decisions to detect and respond to health emergencies: To better prepare and protect the world from global disease threats, H.E. German Federal Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, […]
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Researchers discover control mechanism for melanoma skin cancer: How the intricacies of tissue memory T cells could be the future of immunotherapies and vaccines In a significant step forward in understanding the crucial role tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells play in the immune system, researchers have for the first time described how the cells behave […]
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A century-old BCG vaccine could help reduce the incidence of eczema in high-risk infants due to its beneficial off-target effects, according to a new MCRI-led allergy study. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine used in Australia until the 1980s to prevent tuberculosis, had been tested in a trial to see if it can reduce the rate […]
Can an algae by-product be used in acidic drinks to help protect teeth? Research academics at the University of Wolverhampton have received funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Algae-UK to investigate if a substance made by bacteria that could be used as an additive in acidic drinks can be created cheaper by using […]
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Discover how mRNA vaccines help your immune system fight viral infections and how this decades-old technology was used to create COVID-19 vaccines. — In the 20th century, most vaccines took over a decade to research, test, and produce. But the vaccines for COVID-19 were cleared for emergency use in less than 11 months. The […]
Ultrasound brain stimulation slows dementia-related brain degeneration: The Transcranial Pulse Stimulation with ultrasound (TPS) technique developed at MedUni Vienna under the lead of neuroscientist Roland Beisteiner from the Department of Neurology can be used in various neuropsychiatric brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. It improves brain function by externally activating still-functioning neurons. It has […]
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Shockwave therapy – used as a last resort to treat wounds that do not heal with conventional treatments – could have other, previously unknown benefits, University of Aberdeen researchers have found. High intensity extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) has been used to disintegrate urinary stones for over 30 years. More recent studies also revealed that […]
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Research from MedUni Vienna demonstrates that SARS-CoV-2 vaccination supports immune response in immunosuppressed patients Patients under immunosuppressive therapy can still develop good immune responses to a SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. A third dose of vaccine might be necessary for those patients who are unable to produce antibodies. This is indicated by a recent MedUni Vienna study. Patients […]
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