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A new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease is up-to 94% accurate at predicting dementia...
Up to two decades before people develop the characteristic memory loss and confusion of Alzheimer’s disease, damaging clumps of protein start to build up...
Alzheimer’s disease : A new deep learning model can accurately predict cognitive decline up...
A new model developed at MIT can help predict if patients at risk for Alzheimer’s disease will experience clinically significant cognitive decline due to...
A combination of heart cells derived from human stem cells could treat heart failure
A combination of heart cells derived from human stem cells could be the answer to developing a desperately-needed treatment for heart failure, according to...
New insight into navigation and spatial learning
As you enter a new environment such as visiting a classroom for the first time, your brain takes in information about your surroundings to...
Being more socially active in your 50s and 60s predicts a lower risk of...
Being more socially active in your 50s and 60s predicts a lower risk of developing dementia later on, finds a new UCL-led study.
The longitudinal...
Yellow lenses do not help night drivers
"Night-driving" glasses that promise to dim the glare of headlights may not work as advertised, a new study finds.
The glasses, featuring yellow-tinted lenses, have...
Mental health disorders are more common in people born during the winter
Levels of the stress hormone cortisol are higher in women who give birth in the autumn and winter than those who give birth in...
Scientists have demonstrated the link between high insulin levels and pancreatic cancer
UBC scientists have demonstrated for the first time a causal link between high insulin levels and pancreatic cancer.
In a study published today in Cell...
Most tumors contain macrophages that aid tumor growth
Macrophages are white blood cells that accumulate in tumors, where they aid cancer progression.
Now scientists have identified a surface protein found only on...
Higher doses of spironolactone can prevent the need for dialysis in selected heart failure...
Higher doses of spironolactone, a diuretic (water pill), can prevent the need for dialysis in selected heart failure patients, a UT Health San Antonio...
Researchers discovered that hormone replacement therapy affects the accumulation of heart fat
Hormone replacement therapy is a common treatment for menopause-related symptoms, and new research from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health reinforces...
The concept of implicit bias has made its way into the general consciousness
The concept of implicit bias has made its way into the general consciousness, most often in the context of racial bias. More broadly, however,...
A link between liver dysfunction and Alzheimer’s disease has been discovered
New research from the Alzheimer’s Disease Metabolomics Consortium (ADMC) and Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) has uncovered novel connections between liver dysfunction and Alzheimer’s...
Researchers found that choline can prevent fetal brain developmental problems when mothers use marijuana...
A team of researchers led by members of the University of Colorado School of Medicine at the Anschutz Medical Campus found that choline, an...
Cervical cancer : Psychological stress is associated with a higher risk of mortality
Psychological stress was associated with a higher risk of cancer-specific mortality in women diagnosed with cervical cancer.
"Patients receiving a cancer diagnosis are at increased...
