Day June 25, 2024

Our lungs are the interface between blood and air. Their role in oxygenating our bloodstream is their primary function, and they bear the brunt of a lot more than just pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Borne upon the air…

For all the time I spend digging, planting, pulling and weeding, one would think I’d have some poison ivy horror stories to tell, but I do not. I can’t say for sure whether I’m immune to the rash that tortures…

Plots for the relationship between baseline sleep duration category and the trajectory of brain A? burden, in cognitively unimpaired APOE ?4 allele non-carriers (left) and carriers (right). Plots for the relationship between baseline sleep duration category and the trajectory of…

Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health The largest and most ethnically and geographically comprehensive investigation to date of the gut microbiome of people with type 2 diabetes…

A paper appearing in Topoi by Dr. Regina Fabry and Associate Professor Mark Alfano, from Macquarie University’s Department of Philosophy, explores the impact “deathbots” might have on the way grief is experienced and the ethical implications. A deathbot is a…

Credit: Mikhail Nilov from Pexels According to child development experts, it is perfectly normal for children to have mood fluctuations with occasional bouts of sadness. As they come into their own as individuals, kids struggle at times to process their…

Change in gut microbiome composition after RS2 and RS4 treatments varies between individuals. Credit: Gut Microbes (2024). DOI: 10.1080 Nutritionists generally advise everyone to eat more dietary fiber, but a new Cornell University study suggests that its effects on health…

Alcohol consumption is involved in a large proportion of homicides and suicides each year in the United States, but there has been limited evidence on how policies targeting alcohol use influence violence. A statistical analysis in the American Journal of…

An experimental stem cell therapy can essentially cure type 1 diabetes by restoring insulin production in some patients, early clinical trial results show. Seven out of 12 patients no longer needed daily insulin shots after receiving a full dose of…

Losing weight can protect you against cancers related to obesity, a new study finds. The findings are published in the journal Diabetes. Obesity has been linked to a higher risk of at least 13 types of cancer, researchers said. This…

Vision of the proposed research for developing a self-powered, millifluidic lab-on-a-chip device to determine blood conductivity. Credit: Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002 Metabolic disorders, like diabetes and osteoporosis, are burgeoning throughout the world, especially in developing countries. The diagnosis for…

Alfred Hitchcock observed that “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” A common way to build suspense in a movie scene is for the audience to know something bad is going to happen, but…

Childhood risk factors are associated both directly and indirectly to adult cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a study published online June 24 in JAMA Network Open. Noora Kartiosuo, from the University of Turku in Finland, and colleagues quantified the direct…

An analysis of medical records from 1,765 older adults shows that patients with at least 21 teeth were more likely to maintain a healthy body weight than patients with fewer teeth, according to a Rutgers Health study. Each additional missing…

Dairy isn’t the only food that’s good for bone health. Prunes may also protect bone structure and strength in postmenopausal women, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The findings, published in Osteoporosis International, suggest that daily…

Adults in a study who said they looked to a person they knew as role model for good health—such as a friend, relative or health care provider—rather than a celebrity, had greater motivation to reach their health goals. The women…

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Significant results found in the analyses of the correlations between friendship at 14, resilient functioning at age 24, brain responses to social exclusion and mood and need satisfaction scores. Credit: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2024). DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsae044 Good quality…

Cumulative incidence of type 2 diabetes by degree of night-light exposure. Credit: The Lancet Regional Health—Europe (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Avoiding bright light at night could be a simple way to reduce your risk of diabetes, a Flinders University study shows.…

Spectrograms to demonstrate the similarity between human and AI voices. Credit: FENS Forum / Christine Skjegstad People are not very good at distinguishing between human voices and voices generated by artificial intelligence (AI), but our brains do respond differently to…

Tips for avoiding heat illness can save lives, but they can be difficult to follow, even in wealthy countries. Credit: Ohio Department of Aging When summer starts with a stifling heat wave, as many places are seeing in 2024, it…

Your spacecraft is spiraling out of control, and you will hit planet Arakis unless you fire up the thermal after-boosters. Which of the two buttons below would help you fire up the boosters on time? Would you be more likely…

If you were to envision the kind of accident that would cause a person’s bowels to explode out of their body, you might imagine some sort of gruesome stabbing or grisly car accident. You’d probably never imagine that something as…

Researchers from the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have discovered a biomarker that could help identify which renal cancer patients have a higher risk of recurrence. The findings were published in JCO Precision Oncology. Kidney cancer accounts for…

In a new article, researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago debunk four common myths about the safety of intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting has become an increasingly popular way to lose weight without counting calories. And a large body of…

The structural and functional organization of the brain as shown on MRI can predict the progression of brain atrophy in patients with early-stage, mild Parkinson’s disease, according to a study published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society…

Serial muscle ultrasound following preemptive gene therapy in child with two SMN2 copies. Credit: Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology (2024). DOI: 10.1002 In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers compared the efficacy of preventative therapy for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) between…

Chronic loneliness may significantly raise older adults’ risk of stroke, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Loneliness is increasingly considered a major public health issue. Our findings further highlight why that is,”…

As one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., kidney disease is a serious public health problem. The disease is particularly severe among Black Americans, who are three times more likely than white Americans to develop kidney failure.…

Flint, Michigan, made headlines in 2015 when tests revealed dangerously high lead levels in its drinking water. The city had switched its water supply to the Flint River a year earlier, and corrosive water had damaged aging lead pipes, exposing…

Gender reveal parties are best known as celebrations involving pink and blue, cake and confetti, and the occasional wildfire. Along with being social media hits, gender reveals are a testament to how society is squeezing children into one of two…

Led by a team of researchers at University Hospitals Connor Whole Health, a new study finds that collecting paper-based patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures of pain, anxiety, and stress is feasible—and that provider, operational, and clinical-level factors impact successful completion more…

For patients with schizophrenia, the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs13194504 AA genotype is associated with reduced severity of tardive dyskinesia (TD), but is not associated with occurrence, according to a study recently published in Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical & Experimental. Ruoyu Wang,…

Patients who have smoked with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and an obstructive pattern may be a unique phenotype, according to a study published online June 17 in RMD Open. Keigo Hayashi, M.P.H., from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues…

Crowding in emergency departments (EDs) is a growing problem in Ireland and internationally, and coupled with long waiting times, affects health care outcomes and patient satisfaction. A new study from researchers at Trinity College Dublin and University of Limerick has…

Credit: Cell Metabolism (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging say their study of 40 older adults with obesity and insulin resistance who were randomly assigned to either an…

The National Institutes of Health estimates that millions of children and adolescents exposed to violence each year are more likely to suffer behavioral, physical, emotional, social and mental-health consequences. In other words, youth exposed to violence are at serious risk…

Overview of study population and workflow. Credit: Aging (2024). DOI: 10.18632 A new research paper titled “Associations of childhood, adolescence, and midlife cognitive function with DNA methylation age acceleration in midlife” has been published in Aging. Prior studies showed that…

WVU researchers have developed prototypes of at-home sleep apnea devices. Support from the National Science Foundation will help continue the research, led by Dr. Sunil Sharma. Credit: WVU / Aira Burkhart In continuing research, West Virginia University researchers will put…

Wayne State University postdoctoral research fellows Patrick Monaghan, Ph.D., and Michael VanNostrand, Ph.D., along with Nora E. Fritz, Ph.D., PT, DPT, NCS, director of the Neuroimaging and Neurorehabilitation Lab and associate professor of physical therapy in the Department of Health…