More than a quarter of Americans have exaggerated or made up symptoms to try to get antibiotics from their doctor, either for themselves or for their children, a new study has found. The survey of nearly 1,000 people nationwide ...
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How can we encourage people to adopt more environmentally friendly habits? To explore this question, a psychologist asked participants in a study to take cold showers. Those who stuck with the routine experienced several ...
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Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center and University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf have traced how herpes simplex virus 1 infection progresses among neighboring skin cells in skin organoids. The work is published in Science ...
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An eight-month program providing medically tailored meals improved diet quality and access to healthy food for adults with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. It also enhanced cardiometabolic health (heart, blood vessels ...
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Millions of people in the U.S. are affected by diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes that affects the eyes. The condition is caused by damage to the blood vessels in the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the ...
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For many years, traditional Medicare has operated almost entirely without prior authorization, a requirement that clinicians obtain approval before certain services will be covered. The practice is controversial because it ...
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Our brain's wiring is shaped both by genes and what we experience, and the visual system is a great model for studying how the two work together. Before the eyes ever open, genetic programs lay down a first draft of the brain's ...
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When people are collaborating on a common task, they often need to decide the extent to which they trust and rely on each other. While many past psychology and neuroscience studies have explored the neural underpinnings of ...
A combination cancer therapy that relies on the reactivation of a tumor suppressor protein to kill leukemic and other blood cancer cells has shown promise in a small pilot trial.
Could psychedelics become a new generation of treatments for depression and other psychiatric disorders? This question is no longer confined to basic research. Several therapies based on classical psychedelics have advanced ...
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