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Medical Xpress / How beige fat keeps blood pressure in check
Obesity causes hypertension. Hypertension causes cardiovascular disease. And cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. While the link between fat and high blood pressure is clearly central to this deadly ...
Medical Xpress / Living for today in disaster's wake: Exploring why risky behavior surged after 2011 tsunami and earthquake
When Ichiro Kawachi established a cohort study in Iwanuma, Japan, in 2010, he thought he would be researching the predictors of healthy aging.
Medical Xpress / From yoga to awe walks: Many paths lead to better mental health, largest analysis of well-being interventions finds
As another new year gets under way, many of us will be looking for a way of boosting how we feel, but is it better to hit the gym or meditate in nature? Now new research by Swansea experts has provided the largest ever comparison ...
Medical Xpress / Standard TB and HIV treatments leave lung immune system impaired, study shows
The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired functionality—following the international gold standard for treating people with latent tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, ...
Medical Xpress / New blood test shows extent of brain injury after stroke—and reveals treatment effects
Strokes are a medical emergency, yet imaging can capture only snapshots of how brain damage develops in the hours and days that follow. For many other organs, blood tests can indicate acute injury, but until now the brain ...
Medical Xpress / Treating addiction with immunotherapy: Study links alcohol use and the immune system
A 2024 U.S. national survey reported that 11.8% of males and 7.6% of females ages 12 and older met the criteria for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) in 2023, meaning they could not stop or control alcohol use despite serious health ...
Medical Xpress / Reprogrammed skin cells shed light on HIV-related cognitive impairment
Using participant skin cells reprogrammed into neurons, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have identified genetic signatures associated with HIV infection that may contribute to the cognitive impairment that often occurs ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers survey the ADHD coaching boom
More people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are turning to coaches for guidance. Those coaches, who often have ADHD themselves, offer similar services to psychologists but don't think of their work as ...
Medical Xpress / Fathers' early interactions with babies may affect child health years later
How a new father behaves toward his baby can change family dynamics in a way that affects the child's heart and metabolic health years later, according to a new study by researchers in the Penn State College of Health and ...
Medical Xpress / Autonomous AI agents developed to detect early signs of cognitive decline
A team of Mass General Brigham researchers has developed one of the first fully autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of screening for cognitive impairment using routine clinical documentation.
Medical Xpress / Irradiated cannabis may still harbor toxic fungi and residues
Gamma irradiation, an industry-standard sterilization method for medicinal and recreational cannabis, does not fully eliminate toxic fungi or their chemical residues, a McGill University study has found. Current testing practices ...
Medical Xpress / Discovery reveals how keto diet can prevent seizures when drugs fail
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have revealed how the popular, low-carb ketogenic diet protects against epilepsy seizures and possibly neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
