Women are 40% more likely to experience depression in perimenopause than those who aren't experiencing any menopausal symptoms, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
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The disruption to the supply of a prescription medicine that helps people stop smoking may have led to thousands fewer people quitting each year in England, which will lead to avoidable deaths in...
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In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers have created a dataset and data visualization dashboard to evaluate the effectiveness of state and territory-level policies enacted to r...
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The way religious beliefs and medical treatments intersect can really affect how people use medications and stick to their treatment plans. Lately, there's been talk about "Halal pharmaceuticals,...
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Primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the major type of liver cancer, is a leading cause of worldwide cancer-related death. End-stage liver cancer patients have limited treatment options due to...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-oxphos-synthetic-lethality-liver-cancer.html
Clonal hematopoiesis is a phenomenon caused by mutations in hematopoietic stem cells and can lead to blood cancer. We now know that it occurs also in people with normal blood counts, where it is ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-genetic-early-high-cardiovascular.html
Sleep apnea and low oxygen levels while sleeping are associated with epilepsy that first occurs after 60 years of age, known as late-onset epilepsy, according to a new study published in Sleep.
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A new study by neuroscientists at Florida State University has revealed brain differences that may explain why humans demonstrate a variety of cognitive abilities and behaviors.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-neuroscientists-specific-brain-differences-linked.html
Despite significant progress in treating gastrointestinal (GI) cancers through surgical resection, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and targeted therapy, the objective response rate (ORR) for immune c...
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During hepatic surgery or liver transplantation, the liver is vulnerable to ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), especially when vessels are compressed to control bleeding or during periods of isch...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-effects-cyclosporine-nim-murine-hepatic.html
As an undergraduate student in The University of Texas at Arlington's Honors College, Hannah Selvarathinam knew she wanted to conduct research. Near the end of her first year at UTA, the Keller n...
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In an effort to improve delivery of costly medical treatments, a team of researchers in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has developed a stimulating method that cou...
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If you're preparing to register your child for summer sports camps and fall, team sports, Nirav Pandya, MD, orthopedic surgeon at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, has some suggestions for how t...
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a common chronic gastrointestinal disorder and current treatment strategies can cause adverse effects. Thus, there is a need to identify alternative compounds ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-reveals-importance-phytocompounds-metabolomics-analysis.html
A novel oral amphotericin B (MAT2203) developed by Matinas BioPharma for treatment of invasive mucormycosis (IM) and other deadly invasive fungal infections, has demonstrated encouraging results ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-oral-fungal-infection-treatment-preclinical.html
A research team assessed both short and long-term cognitive, psychological and physiological outcomes of an adapted eight-week mindfulness-based intervention in a group of healthy older adults. T...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-web-based-mindfulness-intervention-memory.html
Young people who have adverse childhood experiences are at greater risk of poor dental health. This is important knowledge for dental health services, according to new research published in BMC O...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-bullying-affect-dental-health.html
A new review explores the interaction between exercise and air pollution exposure to determine how a person's physiology reacts—and in some cases, acclimates—to environmental pollutants. The ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-explores-air-pollution-affects-body.html
Newly updated guidelines on neuroendocrine tumors developed by an expert at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and collaborators provide cl...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-guidelines-future-neuroendocrine-tumor.html
The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) has published "Clinical Practice Guideline: Age-Related Hearing Loss" in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surger...
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A new research paper titled "Senescent characteristics of human corneal endothelial cells upon ultraviolet-A exposure" has been published on the cover of Aging.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-senescent-characteristics-human-corneal-endothelial.html
Researchers from the University of California San Diego have revealed new trends in drug consumption that shed light on how people are adapting to the evolving risks associated with unregulated d...
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A new study looking at health data from the last 20 years has highlighted the benefits of exercise programs for individuals living with long-term health conditions.
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TRAF7 syndrome, or CAFDADD syndrome, is a neurological and developmental disease that causes a wide variety of clinical manifestations, such as cardiac, facial and digital abnormalities and devel...
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Children who are recovering from severe pneumonia could safely switch from injectable to oral antibiotics earlier, allowing them to come home from hospital sooner. This is according to new result...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-treatment-strategy-children-pneumonia-home.html
A survey commissioned by King's College London, and carried out by YouGov, has found that 65% of people across the U.K. are worried about access to palliative and end of life care, and 41% think ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-uk-survey-adults-access-palliative.html
With graduation season around the corner, many autistic high school and college seniors may feel a unique tension between their hopes (what is possible) and their expectations (what is probable) ...
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Millions of working parents know the routine: bustle the kids off to childcare in the morning, work all day, then fight the daily traffic jams to get the kids back home. Something to drink, maybe...
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Social connectedness, a feeling of belonging at school and in the community, can play an important role in suicide prevention among high-risk teens, new research from the University of Oregon fin...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-social-key-youth-suicide-efforts.html
An individual's experience of pain from medical treatment can be heightened by witnessing other people's responses to the same treatment, with this negative experience subsequently spreading to o...
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