Microglia are known to play an important role in Alzheimer's disease, but exactly what they do has remained a mystery. Scientists in the Bart De Strooper Lab at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease have unraveled ...
Dec 13, 2024
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Improving your brain health in the new year can start with a simple step, talking with your neurologist or primary care physician about 12 factors to protect your brain. The factors are outlined in an Emerging Issues in Neurology ...
Dec 23, 2024
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Artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT have been touted for their promise to alleviate clinician workload by triaging patients, taking medical histories and even providing preliminary diagnoses.
Jan 2, 2025
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New research from the University of the Sunshine Coast's Thompson Institute has found a relationship between lifestyle choices that affect dementia risk and early signs of aging in the brain.
Dec 18, 2024
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The season of sniffles and coughs has come again. But while influenza and RSV activity is "moderate and increasing" around California, COVID activity is unusually low for the holiday season.
Jan 4, 2025
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One or two doses of psilocybin, a compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, may improve the mental health of cancer patients when accompanied by psychotherapy, a new report suggests. A second new study found that treatment ...
Jan 2, 2025
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Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.
Jan 3, 2025
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Radiation is one of the most effective ways to kill a tumor. But these therapies are indiscriminate, and they can damage healthy tissues.
Dec 10, 2024
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Can there ever be scientific certainty during a pandemic caused by a novel infectious disease? Ann C. Keller, associate professor at Berkeley Public Health and a political scientist, says no—and argues that the Centers ...
Dec 11, 2024
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered sex-specific differences in how fat accumulates in muscle and bone, uncovering patterns that could inform new approaches to treating age-related diseases.
Jan 7, 2025
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