The interplay between the food we eat and our overall cognitive performance is a topic of increasing interest to people throughout the world. And while some studies have reported benefits of heal...
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Searching for evidence for health technology assessments (HTAs) is time-consuming because the evidence identified must be a reliable basis for robust assessment results: The scientific knowledge ...
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A medical researcher at Tel Aviv University, working with a group of computer scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, both in Israel, has found that fasting glucose levels in nondiabetic...
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A study of mice suggests a father's diet may shape the anxiety of his sons and the metabolic health of his daughters before they are even conceived.
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New research shows that ethnic minorities are underrepresented in studies into multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs), despite being more likely to be affected.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-ethnic-minorities-underrepresented-multiple-term.html
Doctors in the U.S. perform nearly 800,000 total knee replacements every year, but some estimates indicate that up to 10% of patients may emerge from surgery with a new problem: arthrofibrosis or...
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The Biden Administration announced Tuesday that it will work with 50 nations worldwide to try to prevent global pandemics such as COVID-19, which brought the world to a standstill four years ago.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-partner-countries-future-pandemics.html
Transferring fecal microbiota from healthy donors to the intestines of chronically ill people has beneficial effects on these recipients' gut bacteria, also in the longer term. This is the conclu...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-fecal-transplants-patients-resistant-gut.html
A study, "Mpox infection protects against re-challenge in rhesus macaques," published in Cell, leads researchers to believe that the successful development of a mpox (previously known as monkeypo...
Africa is experiencing unprecedented growth in terms of both population and economic transformation.
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"Break a leg!" is a welcome blessing of good luck, but who wants to hear that they have actually broken a bone? What's worse, fractures that are displaced or complex require surgery and possibly ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-treatment-method-plasma-irradiation-faster.html
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are next-generation drugs that can treat disease by blocking the transfer of harmful messages from our genes. In people with cancer, ASOs have the potential to b...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-effective-drug-delivery-generation-treatments.html
A new USC-led study on rats that feasted on a high-fat, sugary diet raises the possibility that a junk food-filled diet in teens may disrupt their brains' memory ability for a long time.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-rats-junk-food-diet-term.html
New research presents a significant discovery: small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) from the blood of young mice possess the capacity to dramatically extend lifespan, rejuvenate whole-body physiol...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-mouse-small-extracellular-vesicles-young.html
Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-vaccine-strategy-line-endless-boosters.html
For patients with chronic low back pain, physician empathy is inversely associated with pain intensity, back-related disability, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures, according to ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-physician-empathy-inversely-linked-patients.html
Living in areas with shorter distances to greenspace and lower crime rates are associated with having fewer modifiable dementia risk factors, Monash University-led research has found.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-local-greenery-crime-dementia-factors.html
Manisha Jhamb, M.D., launched the Kidney-CHAMP study five years ago because she saw a looming tsunami of chronic kidney disease cases. She was pulled to find a way to assist the primary care phys...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-kidney-disease-intervention-outcomes-null.html
An analysis of the biomolecule substudy of the EAST–AFNET 4 trial has revealed that biomolecule concentrations in the blood of patients with atrial fibrillation can be used to identify patients...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-circulating-biomolecules-patients-atrial-fibrillation.html
Researchers at Princeton and Rockefeller University have found a new way to study cellular communication, recording interactions between cells as they work in a living organism and unlocking new ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-microscopes-reveal-frozen-moment-cellular.html
The most common type of lung fibrosis—scarring of the lungs—is idiopathic, meaning of unknown cause. Researchers are urgently trying to find ways to prevent or slow idiopathic pulmonary fibro...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-reveals-potential-reverse-lung-fibrosis.html
The typical job of the proteasome, the garbage disposal of the cell, is to grind down proteins into smaller bits and recycle some of those bits and parts. That's still the case, for the most part...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-cell-garbage-disposal-role-neurons.html
Thousands of people around the world die every day from overdoses involving opioids such as fentanyl. Drugs that target opioid receptors sometimes have severe side effects. An international team ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-molecular-functions-opioid-receptors.html
Vosoritide's first global Phase II study showed an average increased growth rate of 1.8 cm per year in children with hypochondroplasia, a genetic cause of short stature in children, according to ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-clinical-trial-vosoritide-children-hypochondroplasia.html
A team of reproductive researchers affiliated with several institutions in France and the U.S. has found that the timing of monthly ovarian cycles in women is mostly likely attributable to the ci...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-thousands-women-ovarian-circadian-rhythm.html
Approximately one in seven couples face difficulties conceiving a child naturally. Half of these cases are due to male infertility—either caused by the complete absence or low number of mature ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-male-infertility-genetic-molecular-diagnostics.html
It's challenging to sustain a pregnancy when food is short, or conditions are otherwise tough. That's why many mammalian embryos can postpone their growth to get through periods of environmental ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-embryos-hungry-mouse-moms-postpone.html
A chemical modification in the HIV-1 RNA genome whose function has been a matter of scientific debate is now confirmed to be key to the virus's ability to survive and thrive after infecting host ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-rna-chemical-modifications-benefit-hiv.html
Severe sepsis from bacterial or viral infections can be life-threatening and even people recovering from severe sepsis may experience long-lasting effects on the immune system, making them more s...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-blood-stem-cells-clues-sepsis.html
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have uncovered why some pancreatic and colorectal cancers fail to respond to Wnt inhibitors, a promising new class of cancer drugs currently under developmen...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-scientists-uncover-key-resistance-mechanism.html