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Signs of neurodegenerative diseases, appearing years before the emergence of clinical manifestations, can be...
Signs of neurodegenerative diseases, appearing years before the emergence of clinical manifestations, can be detected during the examination of medical samples by means of...
Older adults have more difficulty distinguishing between what’s real and not real
What happens when older adults lie?
A new study suggests that in as little as 45 minutes they can come to believe it's the truth.
Associate...
Chronic kidney disease – the cases accelerating at a faster pace than all other...
Advances in treating cancer, heart disease and other major health conditions in recent decades have extended life spans for millions of people.
However, chronic kidney...
A new immunotherapy can greatly extend the lives of a proportion of people with...
A new immunotherapy can greatly extend the lives of a proportion of people with advanced head and neck cancer, with some living for three...
Cancer drugs vorinostat, belinostat and panobinostat might be repurposed to treat infections caused by...
Preclinical experiments by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers suggest the cancer drugs vorinostat, belinostat and panobinostat might be repurposed to treat infections caused...
Psychotic disorders – schizophrenia – researchers investigate abnormalities in nerve connections in the brain
A study recently published in Translational Psychiatry, a Nature journal, has shown how using cultured cells from patients with psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia,...
Not all chronic hepatitis B (HBV) patients require lifelong treatment
Not all chronic hepatitis B (HBV) patients require lifelong treatment; but the risks of blindly withdrawing treatment can be severe.
However, there's little consensus on...
Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), also known as an enlarged heart, is associated with a...
Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), also known as an enlarged heart, is associated with a nearly two times higher risk of dementia according to a...
Altered microbiome after caesarean section impacts newborn immune system
Together with colleagues from Sweden and Luxembourg, scientists from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have observed that,...
The kicks a mother feels from her unborn child may allow the baby to...
The kicks a mother feels from her unborn child may allow the baby to 'map' their own body and enable them to eventually explore...
Night owls may have a higher risk of suffering from heart disease and type...
Night owls may have a higher risk of suffering from heart disease and type 2 diabetes than early risers.
In the first ever international review...
A significant association has been found between artificial exposure to external light at night...
A new study is the first population-based investigation to report a significant association between artificial, outdoor light exposure at night and insomnia, as indicated...
A nationwide study of more than 63000 cases of cardiac arrest found that ambulance...
A nationwide study of more than 63,000 cases of cardiac arrest found that ambulances on average took nearly four minutes longer to handle calls...
Patients lie to their doctors – 60 to 80 percent of people surveyed
When your doctor asks how often you exercise, do you give her an honest answer?
How about when she asks what you've been eating lately?
If...
Brain – new-learning plasticity occurs faster than has been previously thought and in different...
A team of researchers from the University of Tübingen and the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, both in Germany, has found evidence that suggests...
