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While physicians and scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease involves the buildup of toxic protein fragments in the brain, they have struggled to understand how these harmful fragments are produced. Now, in a ...
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A multi-institute team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators established for the first time how certain drugs used to treat epilepsy affect their target.
Dec 2, 2025
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Tobacco smoking is associated with an increased risk of hypertension (high blood pressure), a new UM study has found, and testing patients' urine can help to verify their smoking status and assess this risk.
Oct 6, 2025
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Only slightly more than half of women with epilepsy see a neurologist during pregnancy, a gap that could put both mother and baby at increased risk, according to new research presented at the 150th Annual Meeting of the American ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Antiseizure medications help the majority of people with focal epilepsy, a common form of the neurological disorder. Yet most will still have episodes for at least a year after their treatment begins, until their doctors ...
Aug 25, 2025
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A new mathematical model developed at the University of Waterloo can determine a baby's overall drug exposure when their mother is taking medication. This is the first study to include drug transfer from the umbilical cord ...
Feb 25, 2025
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A UCLA Health research team has identified changes in brain rhythms that indicate seizure activity in Alzheimer's patients. The findings, published in Brain Communications, build on UCLA neurologist and senior author Dr. ...
Feb 13, 2025
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Children of mothers who took certain antiseizure medications while pregnant do not have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 6, according to a long-running study. The study was published in JAMA Neurology.
Nov 27, 2024
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A traditional type of tobacco smoking locally known as midwakh is causing severe health problems and nicotine dependency among users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), scientists from the University of Sharjah report in a ...
Nov 4, 2024
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Marijuana use is common among patients considering plastic surgery and is associated with elevated nicotine levels on laboratory tests, reports a paper in the September issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Aug 29, 2024
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