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Breast Cancer Indicators explained through Lemons : The confusion over what to look and feel for when routinely checking breasts for signs of cancer is not unfamiliar. But a new campaign has recruited an unlikely ally to boost breast cancer awareness: the lemon.
Potential predictor of glaucoma damage identified: Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness worldwide, most often is diagnosed during a routine eye exam. Over time, elevated pressure inside the eye damages the optic nerve, leading to vision loss. Unfortunately, there’s no way to accurately predict which patients might lose vision most rapidly.
Discovery of a Zika antibody offers hope for a vaccine: A research team based at The Rockefeller University has identified a potent new weapon against the Zika virus in the blood of people who have been infected by it. This discovery could lead to new ways of fighting the disease, including a vaccine.
UT Health San Antonio team cures diabetes in mice without side effects: A potential cure for Type 1 diabetes looms on the horizon in San Antonio, and the novel approach would also allow Type 2 diabetics to stop insulin shots.
Survey finds colorectal cancer reported more commonly in individuals with unhealthy lifestyle: A Cleveland Clinic colon cancer risk assessment survey found that respondents who exercised more, followed a healthy diet and did not smoke were less likely to have a personal history of colorectal cancer or colon polyps. The online risk analysis, which has had more than 27,000 responses from around […]
How one drug could affect pain, memory and nicotine addiction: Although pain, memory and nicotine addiction may not seem to be related, they actually share a common player: the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. That’s why Texas A&M researchers are working to develop drugs to enhance the function of these receptors in the brain, which could have three very different applications: easing pain, […]
4 in 10 People Will Suffer Arthritic Hands Over Lifetime: If you have stiff, aching fingers and hands, you’re not alone — a new study reports that 40 percent of people will be affected by the pain of arthritis in at least one hand. The rate seen in the new research is “just slightly below the percentage of osteoarthritis seen […]
Three quarters of rice products sold as baby food found to contain illegal levels of arsenic:Parents should avoid giving rice to young children, scientists have said, after a new study found almost three quarters of rice-based products sold as baby food contain illegal levels of arsenic.
Botox and ketamine could help treat depression, study finds: Ketamine and Botox appear to reduce rates of depression, according to a new study. Researchers in California studied a US database in which adverse effects of drugs were reported. They found that depression among more than 41,000 people who took ketamine to relieve pain was half as common as among those […]
Young women report symptoms of anxiety and depression significantly more likely than their male counterparts, statistics have revealed, raising concerns that a high number of young women working in low-paid and insecure jobs is leading to a severe decline in mental health.
Better memory makes people tire of experiences more quickly : We’re fickle creatures. At least if we can remember to be, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas researcher of marketing and consumer behavior.
Study suggests menstrual-cycle syncing by women does not really happen : A team of researchers made up of the group behind the fertility app Clue and a group at Oxford University have tested the popularly held notion that when women live or work in close proximity for a span of time, they find their menstrual cycles begin to sync with […]
‘Silent seizures’ discovered in patients with Alzheimer’s disease: Deep in the brains of two patients with Alzheimer’s disease, the main memory structure, the hippocampus, displays episodic seizure-like electrical activity. These non-convulsive hippocampal seizures are the first signs of ‘silent’ brain electrical network dysfunction described in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Oxygen improves blood flow, restores more function in spinal cord injuries: A new discovery at the University of Alberta will fundamentally alter how we view spinal cord function and rehabilitation after spinal cord injuries. Neuroscientists found that spinal blood flow in rats was unexpectedly compromised long after a spinal cord injury (chronically ischemia), and that improving blood flow or simply inhaling […]
