Genetics
How genes work together to shape how much you smoke
Take a puff of nicotine for the first time, and your DNA plays an important role, alongside social and environmental factors, in shaping what happens next.
Mar 27, 2024
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News tagged with medicine
Oncology & Cancer
Study calls for major changes in the way people with comorbidities are selected by physicians for lung cancer screening
A Medicare policy requiring primary care providers (PCPs) to share in the decision-making with patients on whether to proceed with lung cancer screening is fraught with confusion and lack of evidence-based information, and ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Health informatics
Optimizing electronic health records: Study reveals improvements in departmental productivity
In a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine, researchers at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine identify transformative effects of electronic health record (EHR) optimization on departmental ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Team finds that chlorogenic acid prevents ovariectomized-induced bone loss
A new research paper titled "Chlorogenic acid prevents ovariectomized-induced bone loss by facilitating osteoblast functions and suppressing osteoclast formation" has been published in Aging.
Mar 26, 2024
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Health
Vitamin supplements versus a balanced diet? No contest
Global consumers spent more than $177 billion dollars on dietary supplements in 2023, with at least a quarter of that—roughly $45 billion or more—purchased by Americans, according to a study by Grand View Research, a ...
Mar 22, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New classification of tuberculosis to support efforts to eliminate the disease
A new way to classify tuberculosis (TB) that aims to improve focus on the early stages of the disease has been presented by an international team involving researchers at UCL.
Mar 22, 2024
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Other
Study finds most new doctors face some form of sexual harassment, even after #MeToo
More than half of all new doctors face some form of sexual harassment in their first year on the job, including nearly three-quarters of all new female doctors and a third of males, a new study finds.
Mar 22, 2024
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Genetics
Oxidative stress in heart failure found to vary between males and females
Researchers from Karolinska Institutet, AstraZeneca, Würzburg University, Science for Life Laboratories and Uppsala University have found that oxidative stress in heart failure varies depending on sex, with female mouse ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Genetics
A protein found in human sweat may protect against Lyme disease
Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks, affects nearly half a million people in the United States every year. In most cases, antibiotics effectively clear the infection, but for some patients, symptoms linger ...
Mar 19, 2024
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
New technique for Parkinson's stem cell brain repair brings promise for patients
Neuroscientists at the University of Galway have made an exciting discovery that could revolutionize stem cell-based brain repair therapy for Parkinson's disease.
Mar 19, 2024
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