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Medical Xpress / Smartwatch and blood test data combine to better predict insulin resistance and diabetes
Around 20–40% of the general population are estimated to have insulin resistance—a condition where insulin begins to be less effective in the body, and glucose regulation becomes more difficult. Eventually, this can lead ...
Medical Xpress / Observational analyses can complement randomized clinical trial findings for the study of HPV vaccine effectiveness
Led by researchers at NDORMS as part of the Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network (DARWIN EU) initiative, a new European study has shown that carefully designed observational studies can produce robust and reliable ...
Medical Xpress / Brief interventions cut repeat suicide attempts by 28%, analysis finds
A single conversation can make the difference: brief, structured interventions after a person has attempted suicide significantly reduce the risk of a renewed attempt, according to an international meta-analysis led by the ...
Medical Xpress / Want to handle stress better? Start with breakfast, sleep, and exercise
Do you ever feel mentally stuck, like you can't cope when a stressful situation hits? A healthy breakfast, exercise, and a good night's sleep might be just what you need to build psychological flexibility, and new research ...
Medical Xpress / Changes in pace of epigenetic clocks over time may help predict mortality risk
The age on your driver's license may not be the same age as the cells in your body. Scientists use something called an epigenetic clock, which looks at certain chemical tags in DNA to measure your biological age, or how fast ...
Medical Xpress / Thoughts don't kill people, but study suggests options for keeping guns from doing so
Millions of Americans have thought about shooting someone, a new University of Michigan study finds. And if they didn't already own a firearm, some of them have thought about getting one to make their thoughts a reality. ...
Medical Xpress / Blocking lipid production in healthy lung cells can reduce lung metastasis
KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, in collaboration with the Francis Crick Institute, has discovered how cancer cells can exploit healthy lung cells to support metastatic tumor growth in the lungs. In two complementary ...
Medical Xpress / Why some moments endure: Episodic memory encoding fluctuates with brain's theta rhythms
For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of important events. Past studies ...
Medical Xpress / Math can tell you how to manage your eczema
Anyone with a chronic illness understands the struggle of living with a disease that is deeply unpredictable. Many such illnesses are characterized by long periods of remission broken up by sudden, debilitating flare-ups. ...
Medical Xpress / Closing your eyes might not help you hear better after all
Most people will close their eyes when trying to concentrate on a faint sound. Many of us have been told that keeping our eyes closed helps us hear better—that it frees up our brains' processing abilities and increases ...
Medical Xpress / Three anesthesia drugs all have the same effect in the brain, researchers find
When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a disruption of the brain's balance between ...
Medical Xpress / Trace levels of food pathogen do not always translate to health risk, says study
Ultra-sensitive food safety tests may drive food waste and unavailability with limited public health benefit, according to a Frontiers in Science study. These food safety measures and ultra-sensitive tests may drive edible ...
