Monthly Archives: Agosto 2019
Prescription omega-3 fatty acid medication reduces triglyceride levels by 20-30%
Prescription omega-3 fatty acid medication reduces triglyceride levels by 20-30% among the majority of people who require treatment for high triglyceride levels, according to...
Researchers discovered a new compound that can reduce damage after a heart attack
Reparative medicine scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute discovered a new compound that could shield heart tissue before a heart attack, as well...
After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts – cannabis-related poison doubled
After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation...
Hacked BIRD Portal – European Central Bank
The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed Thursday that it had been hit by a cyberattack that involved attackers injecting malware into one of its...
Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any mental disorder – new hopes
Eating disorder researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have discovered a neurocircuit in mice that, when activated, increased...
Astro the four-legged seeing and hearing intelligent robodog
What would you get if you combined Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa with Boston Dynamic's quadraped robots? You'd get "Astro," the four-legged seeing and...
A team of scientists is developing wearable skin sensors that can detect what’s in...
Needle pricks not your thing?
A team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, is developing wearable skin sensors that can detect what's...
So why are people left-handed?
There have been plenty of claims about what being left-handed means, and whether it changes the type of person someone is – but the...
Mindfulness meditation may help patients living with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
There’s currently no known way to prevent older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from developing Alzheimer’s disease.
But there may be a safe and...
Bilirubin appears to have neuroprotective properties from oxidative stress damage
In studies in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report they have found that bilirubin, a bile pigment most commonly known for yellowing the skin...
Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the United States experience mental illness
Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the United States experience mental illness in a given year.
Severe mental illnesses cause the brain to have...
Solving the Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery – Try breaking spaghetti into two pieces
Try breaking spaghetti into two pieces.
It’s not as easy as it sounds.
If you take two ends of a strand of spaghetti and...
Research team has identified a non-verbal neural marker of autism
A Dartmouth-led research team has identified a non-verbal, neural marker of autism.
This marker shows that individuals with autism are slower to dampen neural...
Sticky meshworks of DNA and neutrophils drive gallstone formation
Sticky meshworks of DNA and proteins extruded by white blood cells called neutrophils act as the glue that binds together calcium and cholesterol crystals...
Researchers found a protein that could one day be manipulated to make it safer...
A team of researchers from the Scripps Research Institute and the University of Kansas has found a protein that could one day be manipulated...
