Health
Daylight saving time: How to handle your sleep when it ends Sunday
Let's face it, most of us don't get enough sleep even though we're very aware of just how important it is for our physical, mental and emotional health.
Nov 3, 2021
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News tagged with immune activation
Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease may cause vicious circle between brain network and immune cell dysfunctions
Studying the complex causes of Alzheimer's disease, and how to treat and prevent this condition, is like solving a many-piece puzzle, with scientists each tackling a small section, unsure of how it might fit into the larger ...
Oct 26, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Male and female fetuses respond differently to COVID-19
In pregnant women who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, male placentas showed increased immune activation compared with female placentas, according to a new study published in Science Translational ...
Oct 20, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Long COVID: Double vaccination halves risk of developing long-lasting symptoms
In unvaccinated people, around one in 20 who get symptomatic COVID-19 experience symptoms for at least eight weeks. Around one in 50 have symptoms that drag out for three months or more.
Sep 22, 2021
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Immunology
Following your gut: The remarkable role of intestinal cells
Food is essential for life—a daily source of calories and comfort. But for the more than 3 million adults in the United States that suffer from Inflammatory Bowel Disease, or IBD, it is also a daily source of pain and discomfort.
Sep 21, 2021
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Medical research
Platelets key to blood vessel damage in COVID-19 patients
Abnormal crosstalk between blood platelets and cells lining blood vessels is one cause of deadly organ damage in patients with severe COVID-19, a new study finds.
Sep 8, 2021
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Health
Restoring health and fitness with exercise
If COVID-19 restrictions have kept you home exercising less and eating more, it could be affecting your health as could the stress, boredom and isolation of this time. Exercise can help.
May 24, 2021
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Vaccination
Moderna COVID vaccine offers protection for at least 6 months, study finds
(HealthDay)—There's good news for the millions of Americans who've already received a dose or two of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine: New research shows the vaccine should protect against illness for at least six months.
Apr 6, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Sex differences in brain in response to midlife stress linked to fetal stress exposures
Men and women whose mothers experienced stressful events during pregnancy regulate stress differently in the brain 45 years later, results of a long-term study demonstrate.
Apr 5, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Hunker down' stress genes boosted in women who live in violent neighborhoods
The chronic stress of living in neighborhoods with high rates of violence and poverty alters gene activity in immune cells, according to a new study of low-income single Black mothers on the South Side of Chicago.
Mar 11, 2021
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