A new study led by a pair of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst turns long-held conventional wisdom about a certain type of polymer on its head, greatly expanding understanding of how some of biochemistry’s fundamental forces work. The study, released recently in Nature…
Category: 5. Health
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Age, previous sports experience, stronger predictors of performance in children than previous concussions
A new study from York University’s Faculty of Health may offer reassuring news for parents whose children have a history of concussion, but want to get back to playing sports. Researchers from York University’s Faculty of Health spent more than a decade scouting fields, rinks and courts across…
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Is Swiping Fatigue Real? How Dating Apps Are Reshaping Mental Health
A mobile phone with the Hinge dating app logo on its screen, in Athens, Greece, on 31 January 2024. … More
Recent studies show what many daters already feel: swiping through endless profiles can sap your mental…
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Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics
Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows.
While the chemicals, called phthalates, are in widespread use globally, the Middle East, South…
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New machine algorithm could identify cardiovascular risk at the click of a button
An automated machine learning program developed by researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in conjunction with the University of Manitoba has been able to identify potential cardiovascular incidents or fall and fracture risks based on bone density scans taken during routine clinical…
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New CAR-T Therapy achieves positive results in a high proportion of patients with a refractory type of lymphoma
A Phase I trial involving ten patients with relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma or T-cell lymphoma has achieved a 100% overall response rate and a 50% complete remission rate, in addition to a favourable safety profile and high in vivo persistence of CAR30+ cells. The results of…
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Rainfall triggers extreme humid heat in tropics and subtropics
Scientists believe they have found a way to improve warning systems for vulnerable communities threatened by humid heatwaves, which are on the rise due to climate change and can be damaging and even fatal to human health.
The team, from the University of Leeds and the UK Centre for Ecology and…
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Teenage years crucial for depression intervention
Depression in young teens could be easier to treat than in adulthood due to the symptoms being more flexible and not yet ingrained, a study shows.
Researchers found that interactions between depressive symptoms — like sadness, fatigue and a lack of interest — are less predictable in teens but…
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Concerning chemicals from the wear of climbing shoes cause trouble in indoor halls
Those who climb indoors are doing something for their health. But climbing shoes contain chemicals of concern that can enter the lungs of climbers through the abrasion of the soles. In a recent study, researchers from the University of Vienna and EPFL Lausanne have shown for the first time that…
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Should You Be Worried About Getting Cancer From Your CT Scan?
In the past few weeks, radiologists such as myself have fielded numerous questions from concerned patients who have read news articles such as “Study highlights cancer risk from millions of CT scans performed annually“ and “Radiation from CT scans could lead to thousands of future cancer…
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