Archive: 03/06/2019

Antidepressants and opioids double the risk of falls and fractures in older people

Taking antidepressants or opioids more than doubles the risk of a fall and hip fracture in older people, according to a paper published today in Australian Prescriber.

Jun 3, 2019

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Mona Lisa's smile not genuine, researchers believe

New research has found that the Mona Lisa's famed smile is almost certainly 'forced'—raising the intriguing possibility that Leonardo deliberately portrayed her that way.

Jun 3, 2019

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NCI-MATCH trial finds the combination of dabrafenib and trametinib effective

Treatment with dabrafenib and trametinib, a drug combination designed to target cancers that harbor certain BRAF gene mutations, was effective in a trial of 35 patients representing 17 distinct tumor types. The single-arm ...

Jun 3, 2019

POLO trial for advanced pancreatic cancer: a new standard of care

Treatment with the drug olaparib significantly reduced the risk of disease progression or death from metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to findings from the recently completed, international, phase-III POLO (Pancreas ...

Jun 3, 2019

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Companies and governments are paying people to get healthy, and it works

In many ways, we have never been less healthy. Nearly 100 million adults in the United States are obese. At any given time, almost 13 million adults in the United Kingdom show symptoms of anxiety or depression.

Jun 3, 2019

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Understanding how the brain's structure and functions generate consciousness

If we take a broad definition of consciousness as experience of ourselves and the outside world, it can be said to come and go. During dreamless sleep it seems absent, seemingly reappears during vivid dreaming, before more ...

Jun 3, 2019

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LGBTQ adolescents experiencing weight-based bullying found to have increased substance use

Weight-based victimization among sexual and gender minority youth is associated with increased odds of alcohol use, binge drinking, marijuana use, and cigarette use, reports a new study from researchers at the Rudd Center ...

Jun 3, 2019

New blood test predicts breast cancer's return at start of treatment

A new blood test for women with breast cancer can predict how well patients will respond to a new drug right at the start of treatment.

Jun 3, 2019

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Newly developed tool for psychological studies to be tested in investigation of laughter

Software for an innovative wearable that could optimize the collection of data in psychological studies is being developed by researchers at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems, Austria (KL Krems). The ...

Jun 3, 2019

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Immunotherapy comparable to chemo for some advanced stomach cancers

An immunotherapy drug could prove just as effective as chemotherapy in prolonging the lives of patients with advanced cancers of the stomach or food pipe.

Jun 3, 2019

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