New funding supports LMU research on pediatric inflammatory bowel disease
The non-profit Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung supports LMU clinician-scientist Daniel Kotlarz through its Rise up! program. Daniel Kotlarz, Heisenberg…
C. diff uses dual-threat sensing system to survive gut stress
The pathogen Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) – a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections – must contend with a…
COVID-19 linked to lower subsequent risk of type 1 diabetes
New research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of The European Association for the Study of Diabetes…
Teenagers from disadvantaged families show greater eating disorder risk
Teenagers who come from households with a lower income and lower level of education are more likely to…
Boy, 6, died from hidden scurvy after multivitamin lacked vitamin C
A six-year-old boy died from cardiac arrest linked to the “sailor’s disease” scurvy, after a hidden vitamin C…
Gareth Lowndes calls for HDC overhaul after delayed report into mother’s death at Middlemore Hospital
She then suffered “significant complications” and died. “She went in for an ERCP and didn’t come back,” Lowndes…
Gut bacterial molecule discovered to drive serious bile duct disease
Researchers at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital have, together with international collaborators, discovered that a…
Coronary angiography can be safely delayed after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without ST elevation
Immediate coronary angiography did not improve 30-day survival compared with a deferred strategy in patients without an ECG…
Remote exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation can be an additional option for heart patients
Remotely delivered exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation, when added to center-based programs, resulted in a similar number of completed sessions…
Blood pressure intervention lowers dementia risk in community-based trial
In a community-based trial in rural China, an intensive blood-pressure lowering intervention reduced the incidence of dementia compared…
Digital registry strategy doubles heart failure treatment uptake
A registry-based digital strategy that identified untreated patients and invited them to a telephone consultation more than doubled implementation of an effective type of heart failure…
Machine learning maps changing immune response over time in sepsis
Researchers have mapped how the immune response in people with sepsis changes over time. Sepsis is a life-threatening…