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No athlete at this level is 100% fully healthy, Gretchen Mohney, the director of medical and performance services for U.S. Figure Skating, told The Associated Press from Milan. It's about managing whatever it is that may be breaking down. The key for Olympic skaters is getting quick treatment. If a knee swells, the back aches or a sharp blade leaves a gash, figure skaters at the Olympics have physicians, athletic trainers and physical therapists to help.

But questions remain about the accuracy and uncertainty of these tests, and experts caution that the assays aren't ready for prime time. While the results here are encouraging, they are not yet at the level of having significant clinical benefit for individual patients, says Corey Bolton, a clinical neuropsychologist and an assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who was not involved in the new study.

A simple blood test might one day serve as a molecular 'clock' that predicts not only whether someone will develop Alzheimer's disease - but when. The test, published in Nature Medicine on 19 February, is based on an abnormal form of a protein called tau that circulates in the blood, and begins to accumulate in the brains of people with Alzheimer's well before symptoms such as memory loss appear.

The review also found that 79pc of service users were prescribed psychotropic medication, an unusually high rate. In comparison, a HSE national prescribing audit in 2023 came back with a rate of 39pc. Almost all children with a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of autism were prescribed psychotropic drugs. Above average prescribing of antipsychotic medication Risperidone and ADHD medication guanfacine was also found. Both have significant side effects, in particular weight gain and sedation.

After five years in storage, the archive linked to Joseph Merrick - the "Elephant Man" - could finally go back on display as part of plans to reopen the Royal London Hospital Museum in a new larger home. The medical museum, which closed at the start of the pandemic and never reopened, housed some of the most significant artefacts connected to Merrick's final years under the care of Sir Frederick Treves at the Royal London Hospital.

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In the version of this article initially published, the panel Adriamycin/BCL6+/+ in Fig. 2d represents another image of the Control/BCL6/ condition. The error occurred during figure assembly and did not affect the calculation of mean values and s.d. Our own image analysis, not available at the time of publication, revealed that the panel SFO2/Imatinib in Supplementary Fig. 21 contained an inadvertent duplication.

I'm certainly confident that we're going to have a breakthrough within my career, and I have a good 10 to 15 years left. While antiretroviral (ARV) therapies are extending lives and keeping HIV at bay, and PrEP has the potential to effectively halt transmission of the virus, a cure has remained elusive. That's because the HIV virus itself is elusive, both co-opting the immune system and hiding from it.

We were able to reduce bleeding, but that wasn't enough to improve patients' long‑term outcomes,

Male, 56 years old, resident of CastillaLa Mancha He had already undergone a heart transplant at the 12 de Octubre Hospital in August 2017. After an initially good evolution during the first years, his new heart began to deteriorate progressively and did not respond to any of the therapeutic measures used. He was placed on the waiting list for a retransplant in August 2024.

Anais Muczynski, 36, an orthoptist who lives with her husband Vincent Muczynski, 41, a researcher, received her primary breast cancer diagnosis in January 2023 after discovering a quail egg-sized lump in her left breast. At the time, the London-based couple were "optimistic", as it was stage one meaning the cancer was only in the breast tissue or in the lymph nodes close to the breast and she underwent chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and a double mastectomy.

The front of the eye, and the cornea in particular, has more nerve endings per millimetre square than anywhere else in the body, says Dr Dilani Siriwardena, a consultant NHS ophthalmologist at Moorfields eye hospital in London and vice-president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. So it can be very sensitive. The tiniest scratch or piece of grit in your eye can feel like a brick.

My opinion is that his death was most likely caused by strangulation pressure rather than hanging. Given all the information now available, further investigation into the cause and manner of death is warranted, he said.

There's something quietly radical about designing for pain. Not the dramatic, cinematic kind, but the daily grind of chronic discomfort that shapes how millions of people move through their lives. That's exactly what Madhav Binu, Kriti V, and Himvall Sindhu set out to tackle with Revive, a home-based rehabilitation device for knee osteoarthritis patients. The numbers tell a sobering story. Forty percent of India's elderly population lives with knee osteoarthritis, a condition that doesn't just hurt.

If you get migraines, you already know they don't just stay in your head. The pounding pain might be the headline symptom, but the real story is how an attack can throw your entire body out of whack - making light feel blinding, everyday sounds unbearable, and even simple texts impossible to answer. That's because a migraine isn't just about sore neck muscles or scalp tension. It's a full-body neurological event, driven by a cascade of changes in the brain.

We are all going to die. No one is happy about that. Today, the internet is full of claims about diets and supplements that will help us live longer. One writer suggested that there are at least 320 longevity clinics operating around the world; some charge $100,000 or more annually for access to their magic elixirs. Unfortunately, the search for a formula that can prevent death, or delay it for a very long time, has a long history of failures.

Researchers used data from two health studies to track the caffeine-drinking habits of more than 130,000 people over four decades. They found that drinking 2-3 cups of coffee or 1-2 cups of tea a day was associated with the greatest reductions in rate of cognitive decline, a result that held true even in people with a genetic variant called APOE4, which is associated with Alzheimer's disease.

We provide thought partnership. When a company is developing a drug, there's a lot of work involved, such as understanding the science, designing a study and generating good data. We come in and explain what the standard of care looks like today for their patient population, and what we think it will look like in five to eight years or whenever they plan to launch their therapy.