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Medical Xpress / Poor mental health may shape care quality, confidence and unmet needs across 18 countries

People with self-reported poorer mental health also report worse quality of care and lower confidence in health care systems, according to a study published May 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Margaret E. Kruk ...

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Medical Xpress / Machine learning reveals two main Parkinson's types and five subgroups

A new study led by researchers from VIB and KU Leuven shows that Parkinson's disease can be divided into distinct subtypes, helping explain why a single treatment does not work for all patients. Using a machine-learning-driven ...

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Medical Xpress / AI pathology framework can enable a deeper understanding of cancer

The digital transformation of pathology is opening up new possibilities for cancer diagnosis. Today's artificial intelligence (AI) techniques now go far beyond mere automation: they make it possible to extract previously ...

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Medical Xpress / Global outbreaks may fuel violence against women—but most cases go unmeasured

Violence against women and girls may increase during infectious disease outbreaks—as economic strain, isolation and disrupted services reshape daily life—yet those impacts remain largely unmeasured, according to researchers ...

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Medical Xpress / This hand-held cancer probe feels what surgeons may miss and changes how tumors are found in real time

Breast cancer impacts over two million women around the world each year. Following radiotherapy or chemotherapy, breast-conserving surgery is the first line of intervention for early-stage breast cancer. This surgery aims ...

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Medical Xpress / A brain mechanism may help slow Parkinson's disease—but only in females

Scientists have identified a protective brain pathway that may help slow the progression of Parkinson's disease by strengthening the brain's own dopamine-producing neurons, but the positive effect was only observed in females.

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Medical Xpress / One dose of psilocybin changes the human brain, leading to higher entropy

Researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London have shown that a single dose of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, causes likely anatomical brain changes that last for up to a month ...

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Medical Xpress / The slow burn behind type 2 diabetes revealed

More than half a billion people worldwide are living with diabetes, the vast majority with type 2 diabetes (T2D), a chronic condition that continues to rise alongside aging populations and changing lifestyles. Despite its ...

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Medical Xpress / Inside the brains of 800 incarcerated men: High psychopathy linked to expanded brain surface area

People with high levels of psychopathic tendencies are often incapable of feeling empathy for other people. From a brain science perspective, empathy isn't a single emotion but a multi-part neural process. It involves brain ...

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Medical Xpress / Unmasking autism spectrum disorder through its gene-based roots

Two studies led by the Chahrour Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center shed new light on genes associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the neurodevelopmental disease characterized by impaired communication, abnormal ...

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Medical Xpress / Obesity and Alzheimer's linked by disease-driving metabolic pathways

By 2030, the population in the United States aged 65 and older is expected to reach 71 million or about 20% of Americans. This growth is likely to increase the burden of age-related diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease ...

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Medical Xpress / Two drug strategies boost myelin repair in MS models, cutting neuroinflammation

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is most prevalent in Northern Europe and Canada, and more common in the northernmost latitudes. In recent years, the number of cases has grown, particularly among women. The disease causes the patient's ...

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