Depression and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are serious concerns for public health. Approximately 280 million people worldwide have depression, while 620 million people have CVD.
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Survivors of breast cancer are at significantly higher risk of developing second cancers, including endometrial and ovarian cancer for women and prostate cancer for men, according to new research...
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A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham demonstrates that large language models (LLMs), a type of generative AI, may help reduce physician workload and improve patient education wh...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-pitfalls-opportunities-generative-ai-patient.html
Opioid use during pregnancy is not associated with a substantial increase in the risk of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD in children, finds a large study from South Korea published by The...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-opioids-pregnancy-linked-substantially-psychiatric.html
When cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, the dose of most drugs is calculated based on the patient's body surface area. This is estimated by plugging the patient's height and weight into an equ...
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For years, even as opioid overdose deaths dramatically increased, doctors and other prescribers in the United States needed special permission from the federal government if they wanted to prescr...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-easier-opioid-addiction-medication.html
Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have uncovered a way to unleash in blood vessels the protective effects of a type of fat-related molecule known as a sphingolipid, suggesting a promising new ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-riddle-sphingolipids-coronary-artery-disease.html
As people age, their brains do, too. But if a brain ages prematurely, there is potential for age-related diseases such as mild cognitive impairment, dementia, or Parkinson's disease. If "brain ag...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-ai-technology-brain-age-eeg.html
A new study led by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers has found that a brain network condition called "explosive synchronization" could be the cause of extreme pain crises in peopl...
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Social isolation has been linked to faster cognitive decline and an increased risk of developing dementia, although the biological mechanisms of this association are not well understood.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-trials-reveal-internet-based-conversations.html
A university professor has found a way to help students—and himself—power through long lecture classes: exercise breaks.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-dash-students-focus-enjoy-university.html
Researchers in Sweden say they have improved on a technique for converting regular skin cells into neural stem cells—an advance that they say helps close the gap for accessible personalized cel...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-device-stem-cell-generation-chance.html
The unique circumstances arising from the COVID-19 pandemic altered a long-held convention that doctors provide care regardless of personal risk.
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Survivors of childhood cancer are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, for which a risk factor is their greater prevalence of type 2 diabetes, with a disproportionate impact on those of ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-genetics-diabetes-disparities-childhood-cancer.html
A University of Texas at Dallas researcher and his international colleagues have developed an algorithm that might one day provide early medical alerts about the onset of asthma attacks or other ...
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Giving drugs at different times of day could significantly affect how they are metabolized in the liver, according to a new study from MIT.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-circadian-rhythms-drugs-effectiveness.html
New research has discovered that neotame, one of the new generation of artificial sweeteners, is capable of damaging the human intestine and causing illness.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-artificial-sweetener-potential-gut.html
Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer diagnosis for U.S. women, and the second-leading cause of female cancer deaths. In recent years, breast cancer treatments have improved significantl...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-gene-networks-aggressive-breast-cancer.html
Researchers have created a thin film that combines an electrode grid and LEDs that can both track and produce a visual representation of the brain's activity in real-time during surgery—a huge ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-flexible-microdisplay-brain-real-surgery.html
As patients with congenital heart diseases live longer, researchers are attempting to understand some of the other complications they may face as they age. A team from Children's Hospital of Phil...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-biology-fontan-liver-disease.html
A new paper describes the role of two RNA-binding proteins in the development of sarcoma and carcinoma cancers, highlighting the important and emerging role of RNA-binding proteins in cancer rese...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-potential-avenues-cancer-therapies-rna.html
Cleveland Clinic researchers developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can determine the best combination and timeline to use when prescribing drugs to treat a bacterial infection, bas...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-ai-treatments-superbugs.html
Pick's disease, a neurodegenerative disease of unknown genetic origin, is a rare type of frontotemporal dementia that affects people under the age of 65. The condition causes changes in personali...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-genetic-association-treatment-avenues-disease.html
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated the effectiveness of a potential new therapy for Timothy syndrome, an often life-threatening and rare genetic disorder that affects a wide ra...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-gene-based-therapy-cellular-function.html
Conditions such as diabetes, heart attack, and vascular diseases commonly diagnosed in people with spinal cord injuries can be traced to abnormal post-injury neuronal activity that causes abdomin...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-spinal-cord-injury-neurons-wreak.html
Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, adding that most of those to benefit were infants.
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Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-doctors-combine-pig-kidney-transplant.html
When pathogens invade the body, the immune system must react immediately to prevent or contain an infection. But how do our defense cells stay ready when no attacker is in sight?
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-immune-cells-standby-constantly-healthy.html
Researchers from NDORMS in collaboration with international institutions have demonstrated the potential of using environmental measurements and deep learning modeling to predict malaria outbreak...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-ai-malaria-outbreaks-south-asia.html
Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona and the University of Cologne in Germany have developed a new experimental strategy to tackle scarring and fibrosis. Experiments with...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-experimental-strategy-tackle-fibrosis-scarring.html