Archive: 18/06/2019

Social media can threaten medical experiments

Testing new pharmaceutical treatments is a complicated process. Very often, participants have preferences or hopes, either about what the test should measure or about what the outcome should be. Patients often enrol in the ...

Jun 18, 2019

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The fractal brain, from a single neuron's perspective

Hacking into brain signals may be more straightforward than once thought.

Jun 18, 2019

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Can probiotics and other factors be used reliably to benefit health?

Steven Finkel tells the story of a close family member who had a discomforting health issue—the kind you don't discuss at the dinner table.

Jun 18, 2019

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High quality websites and apps could help those in chronic pain to manage symptoms, researcher says

Smartphone apps and pain management websites could fill a significant gap in helping to support the one in five New Zealanders living with chronic or persistent pain, a pain researcher from the University of Otago, Wellington ...

Jun 18, 2019

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Pregnancy-specific anxiety may impact how long a woman exclusively breastfeeds her child.

Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended by the World Health Organization for the first six months of life because of the benefits for both mom and baby. In Canada, approximately 32% of women meet this recommendation.

Jun 18, 2019

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Study holds promise for novel and safe treatment for Type 2 diabetes

Reducing a specific protein in the fat cells of mice not only prevents onset of Type 2 diabetes but also appears to reverse the disease in the animals, researchers at the University of British Columbia and Sweden's Karolinska ...

Jun 18, 2019

Teen sexting associated with delinquency, sexual behaviours and mental health issues, study finds

A broad analysis of 23 studies on adolescent sexual behaviours, involving 41,723 participants, revealed that teen sexting is associated with a bevy of risk factors for youth, including multiple sexual partners, lack of contraception ...

Jun 18, 2019

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Anger in India as lychee-linked brain fever kills 113 children

Ten more children died Tuesday from a mysterious brain fever potentially linked to lychees, officials said, taking the death toll to 113 this month and sparking angry protests in India's poorest Bihar state.

Jun 18, 2019

Sanofi turns to Google in search for better treatments

French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi said Tuesday it is partnering with Google to use artificial intelligence and deep analytics tools to sift through its data to find better treatments.

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Terminally ill who request doctors make decisions undergo more aggressive final treatments

Terminally ill patients who request that physicians make decisions on their behalf are more likely to receive aggressive treatments in the weeks before they die, according to a Rutgers study.

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