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Researchers found that daycares have a higher abundance of yeasts, while private houses contain more spore-producing molds, with occupant density and ventilation playing key roles in fungal distribution.Monday, February 24, 2025 from THE MEDICAL NEWS
Study explores the relative contributions of genetics and environmental factors to aging and premature mortality. It highlights how the exposome—lifetime environmental exposures—shapes disease risks, with socioeconomic status, smoking,...Sunday, February 23, 2025 from THE MEDICAL NEWS
Researchers examine how food choices and different levels of physical activity may impact the risk of depression and anxiety among university students.Sunday, February 23, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Feature story
Brain circuits are known to gradually form and develop after birth as the result of both innate biological processes and life experiences. Past studies suggest that the initial development of brain circuits spans across two different...Saturday, February 22, 2025 from THE MEDICAL NEWS
Many Medicare patients with advanced cancer receive potentially aggressive treatment at the expense of supportive care, according to a study that analyzed Medicare records.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from THE MEDICAL NEWS
Social media trends and peer pressure can be a dangerous combination to your children and their friends, especially when involving misusing medicines.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from THE MEDICAL NEWS
Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes, and sometimes two instruments, ingeniously recombined, can accomplish feats that neither could have done on its own.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from THE MEDICAL NEWS
SARS-CoV-2 triggers the production of the antiviral protein IFN-γ, which is associated with fatigue, muscle ache and depression. New research shows that in Long COVID patients, IFN-y production persists until symptoms improve,...Saturday, February 22, 2025 from THE MEDICAL NEWS
Do you see the glass as half empty or half full? If you rewind to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, chances are you experienced some level of pessimism.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from THE MEDICAL NEWS
ETH Zurich researchers have investigated how tiny gas bubbles can deliver drugs into cells in a targeted manner using ultrasound.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from THE MEDICAL NEWS
Most dietary programs are designed to help people achieve weight loss or adhere to U.S. nutrition guidelines, which currently make no mention of ultra-processed foods (UPFs).Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a fully biobased hair conditioner using lignin gel emulsions, offering a sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional haircare products.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Home Health Care News
Amid the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) legal battle with UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UHG) regarding the planned purchase of Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED), the company is also now reportedly facing an investigation for a different matter....Friday, February 21, 2025 from Home Health Care News
New Day Healthcare has been making some big moves. The Fairview, Texas-based company this week announced that Bill Dombi, former CEO of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), has joined its Board of Advisors. And...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Workplace bullying affects not only the employee's sleep but their partner's too, according to new research published today.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers used visual threat manipulation in the virtual reality environment and thermal stimulation to investigate how the brain perceives pain. They found that the brain perceives pain more strongly when the perceived pain is out of...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal activity in the temporal and frontal...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Using the microscopic structures found on the wings of the Morpho butterfly, researchers have developed a simple and inexpensive way to analyze cancer biopsy samples that could make cancer diagnosis faster, more accurate and more...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, osteoarthritis, and much more. This is shown in a study in which Viking skulls were examined using modern X-ray...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have discovered a fundamental mechanism that affects the size of the pupil, namely our breathing. The study shows that the pupil is smallest during inhalation and largest during exhalation -- something that could affect our...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
A diet of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy foods and lean meats, low in salt and sugar, is associated with reduced psoriasis severity, new research finds.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have discovered and analysed a rare but serious side effect of an innovative form of blood cancer therapy.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
The combination of prescribed central nervous system stimulants, such as drugs that relieve ADHD symptoms, with prescribed opioid medications is associated with a pattern of escalating opioid intake, a new study has found.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Because almost no existing programs focus specifically on reducing ultra-processed food (UPF) intake, researchers recently designed an intervention that included a variety of tactics to target the uniquely problematic aspects of UPFs. On...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study. The new approach, which requires further development and testing,...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have pioneered a new catalytic transformation that converts epoxides into fluorinated oxetanes, a coveted but difficult-to-make class of drug molecules that escaped synthetic preparation for years. By unlocking a pathway to...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing fetus and forms a strong barrier...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have investigated how microbubbles tiny gas bubbles can deliver drugs into cells in a targeted manner using ultrasound. For the first time, they have visualized how tiny cyclic microjets liquid jets generated by microbubbles...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Medical Xpress - Feature story
When animals and humans explore their surrounding environment or complete specific tasks, their brains simultaneously support both their mental (i.e., cognitive) processes and physical movements. For instance, some brain processes could...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Seeking mental health help is a significant step, but that first intake session can often feel more like paperwork than progress, and a significant proportion of people 'drop out' or never return for a second visit, previous research has...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers developed a low-cost, scalable terahertz amplifier that could be used to make antenna arrays that can steer and focus high-frequency terahertz waves, for applications like high-resolution radar, high-speed communications, and...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and have developed a theoretical...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
A robotic device allows eye surgeons to perform high-precision procedures on the retina, the fragile lining on the back of the eye that is less than a millimeter thick.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Fetal acetaminophen exposure increases the likelihood that a child will develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new study.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Home Health Care News
We’re now about one month away from the end of the hospital-at-home waiver that has been keeping the program alive. With the March 31 deadline fast approaching, the push to further extend the program is picking up steam. Earlier this...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Home Health Care News
New Day Healthcare recently announced two major developments at the company. Bill Dombi, former president and CEO of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, has joined the company’s Board of Advisors. New Day also recently...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
A new vaccine that boosts immunity against tuberculosis (TB) has been shown to be effective in pioneering pre-clinical trials.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed Deep Nanometry, an analytical technique combining advanced optical equipment with a noise removal algorithm based on unsupervised deep learning. Deep Nanometry can analyze nanoparticles in medical samples at...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Repurposing amlodipine, a commonly used blood pressure medicine, could help manage attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, according to an international study.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
A new study analyzes the disease burden and the risk factors for severity among people who suffer from a condition called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. Researchers say the condition occurs in people who are long-term regular...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Epigenetic inhibitors as a promising new antimalarial intervention strategy? A new study identifies an inhibitor of gene regulation that specifically kills the malaria pathogen.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists know that natural disasters have negative health effects on survivors, but long-term observations are lacking. To help fill this gap, a research team has investigated the connection between the degree of housing damage caused...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Shared decision-making between clinicians and athletes of all ages who have cardiovascular abnormalities and want to participate in competitive sports is essential, according to a new joint scientific statement.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Biologists have discovered a new type of RNA-splicing regulation that helps to determine which protein-coding exons will be included in messenger RNA transcripts.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Acid reducing medicines from the group of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are best-selling drugs that prevent and alleviate stomach problems. PPIs are activated in the acid-producing cells of the stomach, where they block acid production....Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists developed a new microscope based on Brillouin scattering -- a phenomenon where light interacts with naturally occurring thermal vibrations within materials, from which their mechanical properties can be deduced. This method...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a powerful computational tool, named iDOMO, to improve the prediction of drug synergy and accelerate the development of combination therapies for complex diseases. The study highlights iDOMO's ability to...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
Narcissists feel ostracized more frequently than their less self-absorbed peers, according to researchers. This may stem not only from being shunned due to their personalities but from a tendency to misinterpret ambiguous social signals...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
A longer paternity leave after the birth of a child can improve the co-parenting relationship between moms and dads in a key way, a new study finds. Researchers found that mothers were less likely to discourage fathers' involvement in...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily
A little movement could help prevent dementia, even for frail older adults, suggests a new study.