Smoking tobacco in waterpipes, more commonly known as hookahs, results in inhaling toxic chemicals, often at levels exceeding cigarette smoke, that may harm the heart and blood vessels, according to a new scientific statement ...
Mar 08, 2019
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Fat, biologically speaking, is not a bad thing. Fatty acids—the molecular building blocks for body fat—are crucial to the formation of cell walls and for storing energy in the form of glycerolipids. Now, Rockefeller scientists ...
Mar 07, 2019
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One in four people in Western and Asian societies develop a build-up of fat in the liver as a result of an unhealthy diet. This disease – referred to as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) – causes no symptoms initially ...
Mar 01, 2019
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Clinicians should consider using PCSK9 inhibitors to lower cholesterol in patients with statin-associated autoimmune myopathy. Findings from a case report are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Feb 19, 2019
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Routine sequencing has given unprecedented insight into the genetics of rare diseases, but genomics fails to diagnose up to half of patients who are tested. That's the problem German scientists tackled in a recent study in ...
Feb 08, 2019
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People sometimes suffer toxic side effects from drugs that help many others. Yale scientists have identified a surprising explanation—the gut microbiome.
Feb 08, 2019
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Researchers from Skoltech (Maxim Fedorov's group, CDISE) and the German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU; Igor Tetko's group) have developed an enhanced drug candidate toxicity prediction ...
Jan 25, 2019
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RUDN scientists report that the imbalance of vital and toxic microelements in a woman's body may cause infertility and be passed to the fetus during pregnancy. The correction of a woman's microelemental status before pregnancy ...
Jan 23, 2019
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Patients with ALS frequently have a string of repeated DNA code in the cells of their brain, carrying hundreds to thousands of copies within the gene C9orf72. New research looks at what triggers these repeated sequences to ...
Jan 22, 2019
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The American Psychological Association has issued its first official warning against toxic masculinity.
Jan 11, 2019
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