Some tumors remain extremely difficult to treat, and carcinomas are among the most challenging. Unlike many other cancers, these tumors can behave unpredictably. Some even shift their appearance and begin to resemble entirely different types of cells found in the human body, such as those in the…
Category: 5. Health
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Your brain shows damage before your blood pressure even rises
A new preclinical study from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine reports that hypertension disrupts blood vessels, neurons and white matter in the brain long before blood pressure rises to detectable levels. These early disruptions may help explain why hypertension is strongly associated…
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3,000 steps per day might slow Alzheimer’s disease
In people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, researchers linked minimal to moderate physical activity to a 3-to 7-year delay in cognitive symptoms.
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We created health guidelines for fighting loneliness
Social isolation kills. It increases your risk of death by 30% — roughly the same as smoking cigarettes and much worse than factors such as obesity and sedentary living.
Americans are living through what researchers call a friendship recession, spending less time with friends than at any…
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5 Reasons Why Access to Care Fails the Sickest Patients
Patients with overlapping medical and mental health needs often fall through gaps in a fragmented healthcare system.
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America’s healthcare system was never designed for patients whose medical and mental health needs collide. And nowhere is that clearer than in how access to care breaks down…
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Hope For People With Chronic Pain – Coping Skills Training
A breathing technique to relieve stress and pain
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Chronic pain often depends as much or more on the brain’s response to pain signals as it does on any bodily damage responsible for those signals. Thus, effective pain treatment could hinge on helping people develop ways to cope with their…
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Immune cells use a surprising trick to heal muscle faster
At the cellular scale, the way muscle tissue repairs itself becomes surprisingly complex. The body does not respond the same way to all forms of damage. A sudden muscle tear from a sports injury differs greatly from the slow decline in muscle strength seen in conditions such as muscular…
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What 96,000 adults taught scientists about preventing constipation
Chronic constipation becomes more common with age. Researchers from Mass General Brigham conducted a new study examining whether five widely followed diets could help prevent chronic constipation in middle- and older-age adults. The team monitored more than 96,000 participants for several years…
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Global surge in ultra-processed foods sparks urgent health warning
Experts from around the world are raising alarms about the rapid global rise of ultra-processed foods, warning that UPFs are reshaping diets and driving a surge in chronic health problems.
- A major three paper Series in The Lancet finds that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are rapidly replacing…
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New obesity discovery rewrites decades of fat metabolism science
Our fat cells, known as adipocytes, do far more than store extra body weight. They serve as an important energy reserve for the body. Inside each adipocyte, fat is packed into lipid droplets that can be tapped when fuel is needed — for example, during the hours between meals. To release this…
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