Archive: 05/03/2020

Consuming more olive oil associated with less heart disease in Americans

Consuming more olive oil was associated with less risk of heart attack among Americans, especially when it replaced mayonnaise, margarine or butter, according to preliminary research presented today at the American Heart ...

Mar 5, 2020

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More steps-per-day linked to significant reductions in diabetes and high blood pressure

Middle-aged people who walked the most steps-per-day over an average of 9 years had a 43% lower risk of diabetes and a 31% lower risk of high blood pressure, compared to those with the fewest steps, according to preliminary ...

Mar 5, 2020

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Walking, gardening, swimming, dancing may prevent brain shrinkage in older adults

Older people who regularly walk, garden, swim or dance may have bigger brains than their inactive peers, according to a preliminary study to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 72nd Annual Meeting in Toronto, ...

Mar 5, 2020

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LGBT health improves when friends are just like them

Individuals in the LGBT community face stressors that have dire consequences on their health. Researchers from Michigan State University are the first to pinpoint social factors that can reduce these stressors and improve ...

Mar 5, 2020

Connecting interferon, neuroinflammation and synapse loss in Alzheimer's disease

When immunologist Dr. Wei Cao joined Baylor College of Medicine three-and-a-half years ago, her first project was to investigate how inflammation contributes to Alzheimer's disease.

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Wuhan CT scans reliable for coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnosis, limited for differentiation

An article by radiologists from Wuhan, China—published open-access and ahead-of-print in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)—concluded that chest CT had a low rate of misdiagnosis of COVID-19 (3.9%, 2/51) and ...

Mar 5, 2020

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GI symptoms and potential fecal transmission in coronavirus patients

The world is bracing for the impact of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, which has now spread to over 30 countries, infecting more than 80,000 people with over 2,600 deaths globally. A better understanding of how this virus ...

Mar 5, 2020

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Many lyme disease cases go unreported; A new model could help change that

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention receives reports of about 30,000 cases of Lyme disease each year. The real number, according to the agency, is closer to 300,000.

Mar 5, 2020

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The search for a biological link between reactivated HSV and neurological disease

Without even knowing it, most of us carry around latent Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) in our nervous system—a simple result of being born and living together with others carrying the virus.

Mar 5, 2020

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Study suggests our brains use distinct firing patterns to store and replay memories

In a study of epilepsy patients, researchers at the National Institutes of Health monitored the electrical activity of thousands of individual brain cells, called neurons, as patients took memory tests. They found that the ...

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