Medical research
It's true: Stress does turn hair gray (and it's reversible)
Legend has it that Marie Antoinette's hair turned gray overnight just before her beheading in 1791.
Jun 22, 2021
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Vaccination
'Background' adverse event study will inform global COVID vaccine safety monitoring
COVID vaccine surveillance efforts are a global priority, but safety monitoring for vaccines should not reflect a single population. The largest, most extensive international study of the background rates of adverse events ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Neuroscience
Omega-3s may hold key to unlocking blood-brain barrier
Spectacular images of a molecule that shuttles omega-3 fatty acids into the brain may open a doorway for delivering neurological therapeutics to the brain.
Jun 16, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
In youth, COVID-19 causes more complications than flu; fatality is rare
A new global study of 30-day outcomes in children and adolescents with COVID-19 found that while death was uncommon, the illness produced more symptoms and complications than seasonal influenza.
Jun 8, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Young adults with schizophrenia have highest suicide risk
Adults with schizophrenia have an elevated risk of dying from suicide. Yet there's only limited understanding of when and why people with schizophrenia die of suicide—in part because research studies have looked at relatively ...
May 26, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
New single-cell analysis tool links immune cells to kidney cancer recurrence
The immune nature of kidney cancer stands out when compared to other cancers: More immune cells infiltrate kidney cancers than most other solid tumors, and kidney cancer is one of the most responsive malignancies to today's ...
May 20, 2021
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Health
Different physical activity 'cocktails' have similar health benefits
A new study from Columbia University and an international team of researchers identifies multiple ways to achieve the same health benefits from exercise—as long as the exercise "cocktail" includes plenty of light physical ...
May 19, 2021
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Cardiology
Zapping nerves with ultrasound lowers drug-resistant blood pressure
Brief pulses of ultrasound delivered to nerves near the kidney produced a clinically meaningful drop in blood pressure in people whose hypertension did not respond to a triple cocktail of medications, reports a new study ...
May 16, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Major differences in COVID patient care caused by insufficient data, misleading advice
While there was extensive use of drug repurposing throughout the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was substantial heterogeneity over the types of drugs used for treatment purposes globally. Some drugs, including ...
May 12, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Esophageal cancers resurrect ancient retroviruses hidden in our genome
Scientists have discovered that many esophageal cancers turn on ancient viral DNA that was embedded in our genome hundreds of millions of years ago.
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