Sleep probems can increase someone’s risk of stroke. Sleep problems can include too little sleep (less than...
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Arguments, verbal abuse and aggression are not unusual in elder care settings. Better staffing and training can...
Women experience menopause at different ages — and different ways — which can, among other things, affect...
By Nicole Brudos Ferrara Though rare, medulloblastoma is the most common cancerous brain tumor in children. These...
Benign prostatic hyperplasia, also called an enlarged prostate, is incredibly common, especially among men over 40. While...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the...
How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team has uncovered the strategy used...
Academics are often accused of ‘splitting hairs’, but a team has now devised a machine to do...
Improved prime editing system makes gene-sized edits in human cells at therapeutic levels
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Scientists have improved a gene-editing technology that is now capable of inserting or substituting entire genes in...
A study has revealed that fine particulate matter from 1980 to 2020 was associated with approximately 135...
Why does Hepatitis E become chronic in some patients, and why do medications not work? To find...
Abnormal blood flow in the aorta is linked to inflammation and breakdown of the vessel wall in...
Agents from various federal agencies will focus on unauthorized candy-flavored and nicotine-laden vapes that have flooded the...
The modest benefits of the treatment, donanemab, made by Eli Lilly, outweigh the risks, the panel concluded...
Research suggests that males and females differ in their experience of pain, but up until now, no...
A newly developed radiotracer can generate high quality and readily interpretable images of cardiac amyloidosis, a condition...
A study has found children who are exposed to tree and weed pollen in urban environments are...
New research discovers a potential path to prevent permanent scarring and heart failure following a myocardial infarction.
A team has found a way to make the bacterial enzyme histidine kinase water-soluble, which could make...
Americans’ interest in a potentially harmful ‘magic mushroom’ is soaring, according to a new study. The scientists...
One of the most common reasons for bypassing the COVID vaccine is concern about side effects like...
Researchers have successfully treated the skin diseases epidermolytic ichthyosis and ichthyosis with confetti by transplanting genetically healthy...
Scientists have grown ‘mini-guts’ in the lab to help understand Crohn’s disease, showing that ‘switches’ that modify...
The genetic disease Huntington’s not only affects nerve cells in the brain but also has widespread effects...
Montana’s suicide rate has been the highest in the U.S. for the past three years. Most of...
For Paula Span, a columnist for The Times’s Health section, the subject of aging doesn’t age.
Collecting wild mushrooms, berries and other foods from public forests and parks has become so popular that...
Millions of men live with a testosterone deficiency. If left unchecked, this treatable condition may contribute to...
LA CROSSE, Wis. ― Parkinson’s disease touches every aspect of a person’s life, from the physical to...
Using an advanced artificial intelligence tool, researchers have identified rare coding variants in 17 genes that shed...
Expression of Gstt1 enables the cells to change the surrounding environment to support their growth. The findings...
A computer program based on data from nearly a half-million tissue images and powered by artificial intelligence...
Chronic lung diseases are often accelerated and exacerbated by polymicrobial infections. An international study has identified two...
Researchers have analyzed how an antidiabetic treatment could help control the growth of tumors, potentially paving the...
The selective bond-breaking powers of enzymes bring new versatility for building nanoparticles with a wide range of...
Researchers have revealed how the brain processes emotions related to sustained pain and pleasure.
A study led by linguists has found that early linguistic signs of dementia can be detected through...
Working together to understand the factors which could be used to predict outcome following TBI, researchers examined...
Variants in the CARD9 gene increase susceptibility to severe fungal infections. However, individuals in different parts of...
The structure and function of the kidneys is altered by space flight, with galactic radiation causing permanent...
The researchers concluded that depression and memory were closely interrelated, with both seeming to affect each other.
How the immune system goes awry during space travel and the implications for human aging on earth
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Researching the immune system in space could have payoffs for human aging on earth. Scientists have revealed...
When college athletes are evaluated for a possible concussion, the diagnosis is based on an athletic trainer...
Scientists studied both male and female rats over eight weeks of endurance exercise and found thousands of...
By using AI to assist with cancer contouring, the researchers found predicting the cancer size was 45...
A rare supercentenarian, he remained remarkably lucid after 11 decades, even maintaining a blog. His brain has...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency.
Sepsis — the leading cause of mortality in children around the world — can present with a...
New biomarker database designed to improve astronaut health may also be useful to earthlings
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As space travel becomes more frequent, a new biomarker tool was developed by an international team of...
Researchers have examined viewer responses to images of distressing and neutrally decorated masks and whether personal life...