Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Reduce frailty to lower dementia, study finds
Reducing frailty in older adults could be an effective strategy to prevent dementia, according to a largescale new study.
Dec 22, 2021
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News tagged with genetic predisposition
Psychology & Psychiatry
New loneliness numbers 'not a fluke,' says expert
Elvis knew lonely.
Nov 29, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New study finds genes and air pollution multiply healthy people's risk of depression
A genetic predisposition for depression combined with exposure to high-particulate-matter air pollution greatly elevates the risk that healthy people will experience depression, according to a first-of-its-kind study published ...
Nov 8, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Insights into the etiology of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma, NPC, is a rare tumor of the head and neck, which originates in the nasopharynx at the very back of the nose. NPC has a particularly high incidence in southern China, Southeast Asia, and North and ...
Nov 2, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists trace the path from pollutants in food to a heightened allergic response
Exposure to the heavy metal cadmium is known to irritate the stomach and lungs or cause kidney disease, but new research links another health issue to inadvertently ingesting low doses of the pollutant: High activation of ...
Oct 26, 2021
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Medical research
Cannabis causes birth defects in susceptible mice
A chemical found in cannabis, a common recreational drug, has now been shown to cause birth defects in mice. Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai show that the psychoactive component of cannabis (THC) ...
Oct 5, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
On the trail of a medical mystery: Scientists zero in on elevated MRSA susceptibility after liver transplants
For decades, recipients of liver transplants have been inexplicably vulnerable to MRSA infection after their lifesaving surgeries, but the molecular mechanisms underlying that risk had remained stubbornly mystifying, at least ...
Cardiology
Study highlights the importance of heart health for preventing diabetes
Heart healthy middle-aged adults are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes during their lifetime, according to a study published on World Heart Day in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European ...
Sep 29, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Smoking highly likely to worsen COVID-19 severity and risk of associated death
Smoking is highly likely to worsen the severity of COVID-19 and the risk of dying from the infection, finds a large UK Biobank study published online in the respiratory journal Thorax.
Sep 27, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
New risk factor identified for the most common childhood cancer
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a cancer involving white blood cells known as lymphocytes, is the most common childhood cancer, representing 25% of all cancer diagnoses. It's also one of the leading causes of childhood ...
Sep 10, 2021
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