Medications
Online Rx startups offer convenience but also raise concerns
How do you get men excited about decades-old pills for hair loss, erectile dysfunction and other potentially embarrassing health conditions?
Jun 5, 2019
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Health
It's not all gym junkies and 'roid rage'—people use steroids for a variety of reasons
Most media reports would have you believe steroid users are predominantly young men suffering a "crisis of male ego" who are on a "deadly crusade to get ripped".
May 20, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Team finds tight pants and pubic-hair removal increase risk of vulvodynia
Risk of chronic vulva discomfort and pain nearly doubled by removing hair from mons pubis, or wearing tight-fitting jeans or pants four or more times a week.
May 9, 2019
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Genetics
Stem cells from hair follicles have potential to repair damaged neurons in mice
A subset of the stem cells in hair follicles have the potential to regenerate the coating that insulates neurons in mice, reports Thomas Hornyak of the VA Maryland Health Care System and the University of Maryland School ...
Apr 24, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
New strategy to reduce cancer drug's cardiotoxic effects
Doxorubicin (Doxo) is a widely used chemotherapeutic drug for cancer, though it can have toxic effects on the heart. A recent animal study published in The FASEB Journal investigated whether the cardioregulatory protein chromogranin ...
Apr 11, 2019
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Medical research
Cancer sufferers' hair loss misery during chemo could be over
Scientists at the University of Huddersfield aim to minimise, or eliminate completely, the hair loss that is one of the most distressing side-effects of cancer treatment. They aim to achieve this by combining scalp cooling ...
Apr 11, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why do we mix up faces? Game of Thrones might help us find the answer
In the Game of Thrones universe, confusing a photograph of actor Jack Gleeson, who played the popular HBO TV show's despised sadist Joffrey Baratheon, for one of Maisie Williams, the beloved Arya Stark, is an egregious case ...
Apr 5, 2019
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Genetics
A bald gene finding
Hairlessness in dogs can be the result of deliberate breeding or, in certain breeds, a defect. A recent study completed at the University of Helsinki describes a gene variant in the SGK3 gene, which causes hairlessness in ...
Apr 2, 2019
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Medical research
Microneedle technology gets green light
Innovators at Cardiff Medicentre have pioneered microneedle technology that could end certain types of injections.
Mar 25, 2019
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Medications
Another possible consequence of the opioid epidemic: hormone deficiencies
Many people who use opioid medications long term do not produce enough testosterone or another important hormone, cortisol, according to a new study. Results of what the researchers called "the most up-to-date and most comprehensive ...
Mar 23, 2019
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