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Medical Xpress / More active teens report fewer sleep problems down the line, new study reveals
Pulling an all-nighter before a test or assignment deadline is almost a teenage rite of passage, but scientists are concerned that these exceptions are becoming a regular habit. Insomnia symptoms during adolescence are linked ...
Medical Xpress / Addressing mosquito-borne disease trends as climate change bites
Prevention measures, including vector control, vaccine deployment and cutting greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming, are critical to counter the growing burden of mosquito-borne diseases in a changing climate, ...
Medical Xpress / Tracing fetal DNA through maternal blood can help reduce prenatal testing errors
Understanding how fetal DNA travels in a pregnant woman's blood could unlock the next generation of prenatal screening, according to a new paper published in Science Advances.
Medical Xpress / The risk of looking back at former versions of ourselves
For decades, body image researchers have focused almost exclusively on how we compare ourselves to others and the toll it takes on our well-being. But a new study from The Ohio State University shows that we are often our ...
Medical Xpress / Same-day chemotherapy boosts cancer vaccine responses in preclinical models
Both the clinical effects and the unpleasant side effects of chemotherapies, from hair loss to mouth sores to gastrointestinal discomfort, stem from their indiscriminate destruction of cells prone to rapid proliferation. ...
Medical Xpress / US pharmacy closures are hitting racial minority communities the hardest
Pharmacies across the United States continue to close at a rapid rate, leaving millions of Americans in "pharmacy deserts," where they lack convenient and reasonable access to the care these community health hubs provide. ...
Medical Xpress / Stem cell-derived brain models offer a new window into how anesthesia works
Every day, hundreds of thousands of people undergo general anesthesia, trusting they'll drift into unconsciousness and wake safely after surgery. Yet despite decades of use, scientists still don't fully understand how anesthetic ...
Medical Xpress / Magnetically controlled capsule shows promise for investigating hard-to-reach regions of the small intestine
A small capsule could change how we study the microbiome of the small intestine. A team led by researchers at the University of Tokyo has created a pill-shaped device designed to take samples from the small intestine using ...
Medical Xpress / Cellular recycling changes with age, but not how we expected
Taking out the trash is a chore that even our cells cannot escape. Through a process known as autophagy, they place misshapen proteins and other cellular garbage in biological containers to digest them into their molecular ...
Medical Xpress / Stimulating the striatum changes how people weigh mental effort against rewards
Choosing whether to tackle or complete a difficult task often entails weighing the rewards that we could gain from this task against the mental effort it will require. For instance, a larger payment could make a challenging ...
Medical Xpress / An epigenetic blueprint reveals how aggressive MYC amplification fuels cancer
Researchers at the Cancer Epigenetics Institute (CEI) at Fox Chase Cancer Center have discovered how to control and stop the amplification of MYC—one of the most commonly altered cancer genes linked to aggressive tumor growth ...
Medical Xpress / Inflammation can reactivate 'sleeping' cancer cells hidden in the bone
The spread of cancer from a primary tumor to another place in the body, called metastasis, remains one of the greatest challenges in cancer treatment and is responsible for most cancer-related deaths.
