An AI tool that analyzes nurses’ data and notes detected when patients in the hospital were deteriorating nearly two days earlier than traditional methods and reduced the risk of death by over 35%, found a year-long clinical trial of more than 60,000 patients led by researchers at Columbia…
Category: 5. Health
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Being physically active, even just a couple of days a week, may be key to better health
Being physically active for one to two days a week, often called a “weekend warrior,” may provide comparable health and life-prolonging benefits as smaller doses of daily physical activity if the physical effort is moderate to vigorous and totals 150 minutes a week in line with recommended…
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New antibiotic for multidrug resistant superbug
Researchers from the universities in Konstanz and Vienna discover a new class of antibiotic that selectively targets Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea. These substances trigger a self-destruction program, which also operates in multi-resistant variants of the pathogen….
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‘Is that my career over?’: Reflections of elite athletes during pregnancy
Elite athletes have shared their worries about their sports career after pregnancy.
Eleven female athletes took part in the qualitative study, published recently in the journal Sports Medicine, and described their experiences in the UK as they navigated pregnancy to researchers at King’s College…
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Blood test may rule out future dementia risk
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have demonstrated how specific biomarkers in the blood can predict the development of dementia up to ten years before diagnosis, among older adults living independently in the community.
A new study, published in Nature Medicine, has investigated the…
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When it comes to obesity-related cancers, where you shop for food matters
besity is at epidemic proportions in the United States where more than 40% of adults are obese and more than 70% are overweight. One common policy intervention to tackle this urgent issue is to try to improve diet quality by increasing local grocery stores that offer healthy options. However,…
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Smartwatch technology could help with future alcohol interventions
Alcohol harm costs NHS England £3.5 billion annually, with 70 people dying every day from alcohol-related causes in the UK1. According to new University of Bristol-led research smartwatches could provide a more accurate picture of people’s daily drinking habits than current methods. The…
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Older adults experience similar or even less muscle damage than young adults after exercise
Older adults experience less muscle soreness following exercise according to research which overturns the widespread belief that ageing muscles are less resilient.
The study entitled “Advancing age is not associated with greater exercise-induced muscle damage” is published in the Journal of…
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Researchers use ‘smart’ bomb therapy to destroy breast cancer
A wife and husband professor team at Michigan State University are collaborating with researchers at the University of California, Riverside to create a new light-activated “smart” bomb to treat aggressive breast cancer.
Sophia Lunt, an MSU professor in biochemistry and molecular biology in the…
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World’s smallest pacemaker is activated by light
Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe — and be non-invasively injected into the body.
Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the pacemaker is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of newborn babies…
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