Alzheimer's disease & dementia

'Remarkable' Alzheimer's drug reduces cognitive decline, study shows

US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly on Wednesday announced its experimental Alzheimer's drug significantly slowed cognitive and functional decline, results hailed as "remarkable" by experts despite some patients experiencing ...

Neuroscience

Visually navigating on foot uses a unique brain region

Using vision to efficiently move through an area by foot uses a unique region of the brain's cortex, according to a small study organized by the National Eye Institute (NEI). The region, called the occipital place area (OPA), ...

Medical research

Japan newborn gets liver stem cells in world first

Doctors in Japan have successfully transplanted liver cells derived from embryonic stem cells into a newborn baby, in a world first that could provide new treatment options for infants.

Overweight & Obesity

New study shows abdominal obesity and muscle weakness in 8-year-olds

The harmful combination of abdominal obesity and reduced muscle strength, also known as sarcopenic obesity, is already present in primary school children. This is shown by a new study among eight-year-olds, conducted at Karolinska ...

Health informatics

Accurately calculating life expectancy since COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic caused over one million deaths in the United States from 2021 to 2023. According to the Human Mortality Database, the world's leading scientific data resource on mortality in more developed countries, ...

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