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HMN 2024 – Each year, thousands of Americans head home after a surgery clutching prescription opioids to help ease post-surgical pain. Trouble is, most won’t use all those pills, and that could lead to a lot of misuse and addiction, one study found. And with National Prescription Drug Take Back Day slated for Saturday, it’s Read More

HMN 2024 – Researchers have developed tiny, flexible devices that can wrap around individual nerve fibers without damaging them. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, combined flexible electronics and soft robotics techniques to develop the devices, which could be used for the diagnosis and treatment of a range of disorders, including epilepsy and chronic Read More

HMN 2024 – Spontaneous vasomotion detection. Credit: eLife (2024). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.93721.3 Compared with computers, the brain can perform computations with a very low net energy supply. Yet our understanding surrounding how the biological brain manages energy is still incomplete. What is known, however, is that the dilation and constriction cycles of blood vessels, or vasomotion, Read More

HMN 2024 – A study in more than 3,000 US counties, with 315 million residents, has suggested that air pollution is linked with stress and depression, putting under-65-year-olds at increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. The research is presented today at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024. “Our study indicates that the air we breathe affects Read More

HMN 2024 – Climbing stairs is associated with a longer life, according to research presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). “If you have the choice of taking the stairs or the lift, go for the stairs as it will help your heart,” said study author Read More

HMN 2024 – “Childhood” and “dementia” are two words we wish we didn’t have to use together. But sadly, around 1,400 Australian children and young people live with currently untreatable childhood dementia. Broadly speaking, childhood dementia is caused by any one of more than 100 rare genetic disorders. Although the causes differ from dementia acquired Read More

HMN 2024 – Certain features of modern buildings seem to cause more or less pronounced disadvantages for health, as they prevent contact with the multitude of microbes in the natural environment and in total seem to have negative effects on microbial diversity. Credit: Katja Duwe-Schrinner Over the last 20 years, the life sciences have come Read More