Today’s Solutions: January 09, 2025

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Watching movies could help treat children with lazy eye

For decades, children with amblyopia, or a “lazy-eye,” have been treated by wearing a patch over the stronger eye to strengthen the weaker one. The condition affects around 2-3 in every 100 children, making it a very common eye disease. New research suggests there may be another treatment Read More...

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Maker-space for nurses empowers medical staff to improve healthcare

Nurses are often the first ones to know about problems that patients encounter in a hospital. Let's say a patient can't take a shower because a catheter isn't water resistant. In one hospital, a nurse already invented a special catheter protector. For the past two years, the MakerNurse initiative Read More...

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Malaria may have helped scientists find a potential cure for cancer

It's still in the early stages, but scientists are wondering if they might have just found a cure for cancer. And alike many more amazing scientific discoveries, it was all a bit by accident. While looking for a way to protect pregnant women from malaria, Danish researchers found that armed malaria Read More...

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Filtered sunlight could save thousands of newborns living with jaundice

Sunlight gives life to all, and now it’s being used to save lives. Researchers have developed a low-cost, solar-powered cure for jaundice that could save thousands of newborns in impoverished countries. Whereas traditional treatments for jaundice use incubators under UV lights, this new option Read More...

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One glass of wine a day will be beneficial for people with diabetes

Here’s a treatment that people living with type 2 diabetes will actually enjoy: wine. A new study suggests that a glass of wine every day can improve cardiac health, help manage cholesterol and foster better sleep. A glass a day (just one!) with dinner can help improve glucose control, making Read More...

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Positive emotions help patients with heart disease improve long-term health

For decades the health industry has been focusing on what makes us sick. But in the past few years, there has been a change in that thinking. More often doctors are looking at what makes patients better and healthier. And research is supporting that approach. Scientists at Penn State University Read More...

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Eating organic lowers pesticide levels in children, study shows

Sometimes it takes a study to state the obvious. Researchers have found that when children eat organic fruits and vegetables, the amount of pesticides in their bodies declines significantly. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, included 40 children whose urine samples were Read More...

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Elephants appear to be resistant to cancer: What can we learn from them?

Elephants hardly ever get cancer. And this knowledge could pave the way to a better understanding of the disease in humans, and possibly even inspire research into how to combat the disease in the future. Joshua Schiffman, a pediatric oncologist, led a study into the cancer fighting mechanisms in Read More...

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New UV-light enabled catheter to fix holes in heart without operation

A team of scientists in Boston developed a way to fix holes in the heart without having to do any invasive surgery. They created a catheter fixed with biodegradable glue and patch that can be entered inside a patient’s veins and guided directly into the heart. Once there, it uses a reflective Read More...

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Preventing asthma might be possible with right gut bacteria, study shows

Faecalibacterium, Lachnospira, Veillonella, and Rothia. They're impossible to pronounce, but these bacteria might be the key to reducing a child's risk for asthma. If children acquire the four microorganisms before the third month of life asthma will not develop, Canadian scientists found. Their Read More...