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Intimate partner violence strongly tied to child health issues, research shows
A new study led by Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies) has uncovered a strong connection between intimate partner violence and poor child health outcomes.
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Dementia diagnostic markers shown to change with time of day
The time of day when blood is taken can affect the results of tests for diagnosing dementia, according to new research led by the University of Surrey. The study has been published in Translational Psychiatry.
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Reducing sitting by about 40 minutes daily may prevent back pain, research suggests
A new study from the University of Turku in Finland showed that reducing daily sitting prevented back pain from worsening over six months. The result strengthens the current understanding of the link between activity and ...
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Curbing blood cancers by teaching immune cells to kill mutant stem cells
Blood stem cells, which give rise to all of our blood cell types, undergo a quality assurance process after they're born. As the lab of Leonard Zon, MD, director of the Stem Cell Research program at Boston Children's, has ...
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Scientists discover a new understanding of how an old hormone works, paving way for better therapies
Monash University researchers have discovered how the hormone peptide glucagon could better treat conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, which affect billions of people.
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Study hints at ways to generate new neurons in old brains
Most neurons in the human brain last a lifetime, and for good reason. Intricate, long-term information is preserved in the complex structural relationships between their synapses. To lose the neurons would be to lose that ...
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Scientists decode key mutation in many cancers, pointing to expanded role of RNA in human gene expression
Inside every cell, inside every nucleus, your continued existence depends on an incredibly complicated dance. Proteins are constantly wrapping and unwrapping DNA, and even minor missteps can lead to cancer. A new study from ...
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Researchers map the entire brain of an adult fruit fly for the first time
A Princeton-led team of scientists has built the first neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap through the brain of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), marking a major milestone in the study of brains. This ...
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Eyes on the fries: How vision creates a food trend
Research at the University of Sydney has revealed that we don't judge food simply on its merits but are influenced by what we have seen beforehand, a cascading phenomenon known as "serial dependence."
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Artificial left ventricle mimics the shape and function of the human heart
A team of biomechanical engineers at the University of New South Wales, working with a colleague from Queensland University of Technology and cardiac surgeons at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, has developed an artificial ...
A new injectable shows promise to prevent and treat hypoglycemia
People with diabetes take insulin to lower high blood sugar. However, if glucose levels plunge too low—from taking too much insulin or not eating enough sugar—people can experience hypoglycemia, which can lead to dizziness, ...
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Global study highlights the life-saving impact of guideline-directed medical therapy in heart failure patients
Heart failure is a rapidly growing public health issue that can be difficult to manage on a global scale. But there are tools that exist that can improve outcomes, such as guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT).
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Low-cost and scalable intervention shows promise for treating male postpartum depression
A new study from the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), in collaboration with leading researchers in Pakistan, has demonstrated the effectiveness of an integrated psychosocial intervention aimed at improving parenting ...
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Long COVID: Study finds lithium aspartate at low doses is ineffective, but higher doses may be promising
A small University at Buffalo clinical trial has found that at low doses, lithium aspartate is ineffective in treating the fatigue and brain fog that is often a persistent feature of long COVID; however, a supplemental dose-finding ...
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Improving obesity care: New AI technique to predict waist circumference and identify patient obesity risk
A new artificial intelligence tool can predict the size of a person's waistline by simply analyzing their age, height, weight, ethnicity, and level of education, Johns Hopkins University engineers have found.
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Depression was rising among young people in Southern California and COVID made it worse
Children, teens and young adults in Southern California had been grappling with rising rates of depression and anxiety for years before the pandemic. Then COVID-19 came along and made their mental health struggles even worse.
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Researchers propose a new treatment for brain metastasis based on immunotherapy
Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) propose a new treatment for brain metastases that respond poorly, or not at all, to immunotherapy, and provide a biomarker to predict in which cases it should ...
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Researchers build first large-scale atlas of how immune cells react to mutations during cancer immunotherapy
A Cleveland Clinic-led research collaboration between Timothy Chan, MD, Ph.D., Chair of Cleveland Clinic's Global Center for Immunotherapy, and Bristol Myers Squibb has published the most comprehensive overview to date of ...
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New mouse models offer valuable window into COVID-19 infection
Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have developed six lines of humanized mice that can serve as valuable models for studying human cases of COVID-19.
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In a new study, neuroscientists spark shelter-seeking response by reactivating memory circuit
Using a sophisticated brain-imaging system, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have successfully reactivated a specific memory circuit in mice, causing them to seek out shelter when no shelter is actually ...
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