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Monday, Jan 01

High levels of HDL cholesterol tied to higher dementia risk

Elevated levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia, according to a study published online Nov. 29 in The Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific.

Jan 1, 2024

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Mental health symptoms common in Black individuals during pregnancy

Black individuals experience high levels of comorbid mental health distress during pregnancy, according to a study published in the December issue of The Nurse Practitioner.

Jan 1, 2024

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At the stroke of midnight, the New Year gives a clean slate for long-elusive resolutions

It's an annual end-of-year exercise in futility for many. But a clean slate awaits at the stroke of midnight for the next round of resolutions.

Jan 1, 2024

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New protein risk score shows strong clinical utility for predicting death from heart failure

A new protein risk score developed to predict the risk of death for persons with heart failure (HF) has demonstrated good calibration and may help clinicians better stratify mortality risk in these patients. The score is ...

Jan 1, 2024

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Many US children have inadequate, inconsistent health insurance coverage: Study

Publicly insured children have higher rates of inconsistent coverage but lower rates of inadequate coverage compared with commercially insured children, according to a study published online Nov. 22 in JAMA Health Forum.

Jan 1, 2024

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Private equity acquisition of hospitals may increase adverse events

Hospital-acquired adverse events are increased in association with private equity acquisition of hospitals, according to a study published in the Dec. 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Jan 1, 2024

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Researcher warns about 'lookism' and toxic resolutions in a social media–fueled body-critical era

Last year the top three New Year's resolutions people intended to make in 2023, were about getting a better body, namely doing more exercise, losing weight and improving diet, according to a You Gov Poll. This was the fourth ...

Jan 1, 2024

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Tuesday, Jan 02

Researchers identify new coding mechanism that transfers information from perception to memory

Our memories are rich in detail: we can vividly recall the color of our home, the layout of our kitchen, or the front of our favorite café. How the brain encodes this information has long puzzled neuroscientists.

Jan 2, 2024

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Closing in on the ultimate quest to regenerate insulin in pancreatic stem cells

Researchers are zeroing in on the ultimate quest to regenerate insulin in pancreatic stem cells and replace the need for regular insulin injections.

Jan 2, 2024

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Newly discovered genetic mutation protects against Parkinson's disease and offers hope for new therapies

A previously unidentified genetic mutation in a small protein provides significant protection against Parkinson's disease and offers a new direction for exploring potential treatments, according to a new USC Leonard Davis ...

Jan 2, 2024

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Growth hormone found to influence regulation of anxiety via a specific group of neurons

Growth hormone (GH) acts on many tissues throughout the body, helping build bones and muscles, among other functions. It is also a powerful anxiolytic. A study conducted by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) ...

Jan 2, 2024

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Researchers reveal molecular mechanism of cytokine storm induced by coronavirus

In the past four years, the pathogen responsible for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), SARS-CoV-2, has infected more than 770 million people and caused more than 6.9 million deaths worldwide. The severe impact of SARS-CoV-2 ...

Jan 2, 2024

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Exploring the link between early life stress and maladaptive behavior across species

Adverse early experiences, such as parental neglect, abuse, the death of a loved one, or other traumatic events, are known to influence how humans will behave as adults. For instance, studies have found that victims of childhood ...

Jan 2, 2024 feature

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Perceived time has an actual effect on physical healing, study finds

Perceived time has a significant impact on the actual time it takes to heal physical wounds, according to new research by Harvard psychologists Peter Aungle and Ellen Langer.

Jan 2, 2024

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Wednesday, Jan 03

Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain's language network work harder, study reveals

With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain's key language processing centers.

Jan 3, 2024

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Mouse study shows gut biome plays a role in social anxiety disorder

A large team of medical, psychological and social researchers at University College Cork, in Ireland, working with a colleague from University Hospital Frankfurt, in Germany, has found that certain microbes in the gut biome ...

Jan 3, 2024 report

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Shining a light on the hidden damage of mild brain injuries

Researchers have created a new brain imaging method that allows mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) to be diagnosed, even when existing imaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) don't show any structural ...

Jan 3, 2024

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Going dry in January could reduce risk of some types of cancers

A large international team of doctors and medical researchers has found evidence that suggests people who stop consuming alcoholic beverages can reduce their risk of developing some types of cancers. In their study, reported ...

Jan 3, 2024 report

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Study shows that human beliefs about drugs could have dose-dependent effects on the brain

Mount Sinai researchers have shown for the first time that a person's beliefs related to drugs can influence their own brain activity and behavioral responses in a way comparable to the dose-dependent effects of pharmacology.

Jan 3, 2024

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How the brain learns to deal with surprises

For children, the world is full of surprises. Adults, on the other hand, are much more difficult to surprise. And there are complex processes behind this apparently straightforward state of affairs. Researchers at the University ...

Jan 3, 2024

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World's first partial heart transplant proves successful in first year

The world's first partial heart transplant has achieved what researchers have spent more than a year hoping for—functioning valves and arteries that grow along with the young patient, as hypothesized by the pioneering team ...

Jan 3, 2024

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Thursday, Jan 04

Researchers discover that tiredness experienced by long COVID patients has a physical cause

Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochondria in muscle cells that produce less energy ...

Jan 4, 2024

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Scientists uncover key brain pathway mediating panic disorder symptoms

Overwhelming fear, sweaty palms, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate—these are the symptoms of a panic attack, which people with panic disorder have frequently and unexpectedly. Creating a map of the regions, neurons, ...

Jan 4, 2024

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Study offers a different explanation as to why only 36% of psychology studies replicate

In light of an estimated replication rate of only 36% out of 100 replication attempts conducted by the Open Science Collaboration in 2015 (OSC2015), many believe that experimental psychology suffers from a severe replicability ...

Jan 4, 2024

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Scientists use high-tech brain stimulation to make people more hypnotizable

How deeply someone can be hypnotized—known as hypnotizability—appears to be a stable trait that changes little throughout adulthood, much like personality and IQ. But now, for the first time, Stanford Medicine researchers ...

Jan 4, 2024

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Immune atlas at cell level points to new combination treatment for incurable childhood cancer

A detailed 'atlas' of neuroblastoma tumors points to a new target for immunotherapy. Scientists from the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology in the Netherlands mapped this childhood tumor at the level of individual ...

Jan 4, 2024

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Researchers identify and manipulate neural circuits for risk/reward decision-making in primates

Life consists of infinite possibilities—appearing in the real world as multiple choices, that then require decision-making in order to determine the best course of action. However, with every choice there also exists a ...

Jan 4, 2024

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Researchers find gut microbes can affect COVID vaccine response

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that the gut microbiome can influence how well people respond to mRNA COVID vaccines. The study, published in the journal npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, suggests ...

Jan 4, 2024

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Friday, Jan 05

Discovery unveils immune system's guardian: Ikaros

In a scientific breakthrough that aids our understanding of the internal wiring of immune cells, researchers at Monash University in Australia have cracked the code behind Ikaros, an essential protein for immune cell development ...

Jan 5, 2024

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Novel compound protects against infection by virus that causes COVID-19, preliminary studies show

Compounds that obstruct the "landing gear" of a range of harmful viruses can successfully protect against infection by the virus that causes COVID-19, a study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists shows. Based on ...

Jan 5, 2024

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How memories are formed in the brain: A new role for the internal compass

Since their discovery in the 1990s, the head-direction cells in the brain have been referred to as its "internal compass." These cells are activated when the head of an animal or human points in a certain direction, and are ...

Jan 5, 2024

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Study shows dementia risk for older people with hearing difficulty could be reduced by use of hearing aids

A large team of medical researchers affiliated with several institutions in Denmark analyzed data from a national health information database and found evidence that hearing aids could reduce the risk of developing dementia ...

Jan 5, 2024 report

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Psychoactive drug ibogaine found to effectively treat traumatic brain injury in special operations military vets

For military veterans, many of the deepest wounds of war are invisible: Traumatic brain injuries resulting from head trauma or blast explosions are a leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression and ...

Jan 5, 2024

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A leap forward in women's health: Unlocking genetic clues to gestational diabetes

A new study led by researchers from the University of Helsinki, along with colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, provides significant breakthroughs in our understanding of ...

Jan 5, 2024

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Soft robotic, wearable device improves walking for individual with Parkinson's disease

Freezing is one of the most common and debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than 9 million people worldwide. When individuals with Parkinson's disease freeze, they suddenly ...

Jan 5, 2024

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Saturday, Jan 06

How living like a hunter-gatherer could improve your health

Many of us want to live long, happy and healthy lives. Yet it's often confusing to know the best way to achieve this, and many aspects of modern, westernized living conspire to keep us from achieving this goal.

Jan 6, 2024

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PTSD, depression, and anxiety nearly doubles in Israel in aftermath of Hamas attack

A study conducted by researchers at Ruppin Academic Center in Israel and Columbia University documents the broad impact on the mental health of Israelis, both Jews and Arabs, with sharp increases in post-traumatic stress ...

Jan 6, 2024

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Florida gains FDA approval to import drugs from Canada

US regulators on Friday approved Florida's plan to import prescription drugs from Canada, making it the first state to win such authorization, in a bid to lower costs for American consumers.

Jan 6, 2024

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Flu and COVID infections got worse over the holidays, with more misery expected, CDC says

The flu season in the U.S. is getting worse but it's too soon to tell how much holiday gatherings contributed to a likely spike in illnesses.

Jan 6, 2024

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Sunday, Jan 07

Researchers identify why cancer immunotherapy can cause colitis

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have identified a mechanism that causes severe gastrointestinal problems with immune-based cancer treatment.

Jan 7, 2024

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Dlung: A novel method for lung image registration

Research published in Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Science) has proposed a new method for lung image registration named Dlung. Dlung is an unsupervised few-shot learning-based diffeomorphic lung image registration, ...

Jan 7, 2024

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Can we fight back against Parkinson's disease? These research volunteers hope so

About three years before he retired, David Campbell noticed something weird happening as he typed. Whenever he tried to hit a letter, say "a," he'd get "aaa," like the keyboard was jamming or his finger was triple-tapping ...

Jan 7, 2024

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Blood flow changes in the eyes could influence visual symptoms of migraines

A recent study found changes in blood flow in the retina could explain why some migraine patients experience visual symptoms. The findings could represent a long-sought observable marker for migraines that doctors can use ...

Jan 7, 2024

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UC Davis Health creates road map to diversify health care workforce

How can health care systems increase diversity and inclusion in their workforce?

Jan 7, 2024

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