This week’s Medical Minute, discusses cystic fibrosis research into how nutrition, body composition and exercise play in patients’ health across an increasing lifespan. One major goal is to better pinpoint who will develop CF-related diabetes.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses a manmade molecule called “givinostat” that coaxes stem cells, which have the potential to become any cell type, to become “muscle progenitor cells”, which are useful for recovery from injuries, and the loss of muscle mass that comes with aging.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses a compound called “EnnA”, which is isolated from a fungus growing on the roots of a flowering plant in Morocco. It is showing signs of being a powerful new weapon in the battle against aggressive, triple negative breast cancer.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses how high doses of CBD, a compound found in the cannabis plant, has been found to reduce the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaque in the brain that is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses how acute kidney damage…caused by things such as car accidents or serious illness like COVID-19…is causing problems for young women who become pregnant after tests indicate the kidney injury has healed.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses how a common diabetes drug is helping treat inflammation that lingers up to a year after a traumatic brain injury.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses a study finding those with a higher body mass index, or “BMI” tend to do better with some diseases than normal or underweight individuals … even when they are admitted to intensive care.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the effect of large doses of Vitamin C, a known immune booster and antioxidant, on COVID-19, and chronic conditions associated with older age.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses efforts to counter the effect of weightlessness on bones and muscle during long space flights such as those planned for Mars.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses “Remote Ischemic Conditioning”, a relatively simple technique that scientist hope will become a useful treatment for Hemorrhagic strokes, the most deadly type of stroke.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses senescent cells…cells that can no longer divide and grow…and the role they play in helping our bodies recover from major injuries.
This week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, discusses research into how radiation and chemotherapy can be prevented from damaging or killing healthy cells near the cancer it is supposed to combat.
