While heart rate variability (HRV) is a standard measure of the autonomic nervous system activity, its real-time monitoring is often compromised by inter-patient variability and data contamination from procedural artifacts. Addressing these challenges, researchers from Fujita Health University developed a computational framework for robust and personalized real-time HRV analysis, adapted for clinical applications. The framework integrates each patient’s HRV indices with a mechanism to manually annotate artifact-prone periods, making the analysis accurate and patient-specific.

A new study has shown that mindfulness helps patients to relax during an endoscopy, allowing doctors to carry out detailed examinations without the need for sedation or general anaesthesia.

Circadian clocks play a crucial role in our health and well-being. Scientists are now getting closer to understanding how these clocks operate at their core by solving how these clocks within bacteria are able to precisely control when different genes are turned on and off during the 24-hour cycle.