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Medical Xpress / Older men are most likely to reach for saltshakers, while women's salt-adding behavior is more nuanced, study suggests

Salt has been used as a seasoning and food preservative for thousands of years, but having too much of it can lead to various diseases, including high blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases, and kidney disease. Salt overconsumption ...

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Medical Xpress / Genetic overlap between several mental health disorders could help predict vulnerability

Psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar disorder (BD), major depressive disorder (MDD), schizophrenia and anxiety disorders, adversely affect the daily functioning and well-being of millions of people worldwide. Understanding ...

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Medical Xpress / Discontinued childhood growth hormone treatment linked to rare cases of Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that takes away a person's memory, thinking skills, and eventually the ability to perform basic tasks. A recent study has provided further evidence that the disease ...

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Medical Xpress / Therapeutic, nasally delivered DNA vaccine fuses two genes to help fight tuberculosis

In a paper published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reports developing a therapeutic intranasal (nose-delivered) ...

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Medical Xpress / Low-dose leukemia drug can clear senescent fat cells and cut inflammation

In collaboration with researchers in South Korea, a team from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has discovered a promising therapeutic target in fat tissue that improves cellular function, reduces inflammation, and ...

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Medical Xpress / How T cells amplify signals: New study reveals key molecular switch

Signaling is fundamental to how cells sense and respond to their environment—but in immune cells, those signals must be precisely amplified to mount an effective defense against invasive threats. New research by immunologists ...

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Medical Xpress / Shortage of synapses predicts severity of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia, study reveals

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder affecting about 1% of the population worldwide, and is notoriously difficult to treat. Current treatments successfully target the disorder's positive symptoms, such as hallucinations ...

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Medical Xpress / Newly identified chronic pain circuit offers pathways to new treatments

A new map of a brain circuit specific to chronic pain suggests a promising route to treatment for the roughly 60 million Americans living with persistent pain, according to a study published in Nature. The study showed that ...

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Medical Xpress / Digital twin hearts deliver 100% success in arrhythmia trial

Working with "digital twins" of patients' hearts, doctors have improved cardiac ablation outcomes for patients with life-threatening arrhythmias. In the first clinical trials for cardiac digital twins technology, researchers ...

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Medical Xpress / Small molecule could slow or stop progress of Parkinson's disease and related brain disorders, not just treat symptoms

A team of researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi and the University of Denver has identified a promising small molecule that could help slow or halt the progression of serious brain diseases such as Parkinson's disease, offering ...

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Medical Xpress / Language processing requires rapid cross-talk across brain regions, researchers discover

Multiple regions of the brain engage in fast-moving conversations to understand language, UTHealth Houston researchers have discovered, dispelling a prior school of thought that only one region of the brain was responsible ...

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Medical Xpress / Heat-activated skin patch can kill melanoma cells without surgery

Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer that is typically removed surgically. Now, researchers publishing in ACS Nano report they have developed a potential noninvasive treatment for melanoma in the form of a stretchy, heat-activated ...

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