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Medical Xpress / Studies reveal how instability may shape infant attention, brain activity and emotional regulation
A baby's brain is always listening, watching and learning—even when the world around it is chaotic and makes no sense.
Medical Xpress / Silent artery plaques may appear in one in 13 adults before age 30
Atherosclerosis, the process underlying most cardiovascular diseases, begins long before the first symptoms appear. An international study shows that the disease can already be detected in apparently healthy young adults ...
Medical Xpress / Physical exams alone may not reliably diagnose pneumonia in children, national study finds
When a child has symptoms that could be pneumonia, doctors often listen to the child's lungs with a stethoscope to help make a diagnosis. But a new national study led by physician-scientists at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's ...
Medical Xpress / Preclinical study points to cancer drugs as possible treatments for chronic nerve pain
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found new evidence that BRAF, a protein commonly involved in cancer, plays a key role in developing, amplifying and maintaining chronic pain caused by ...
Medical Xpress / Peroxisome structure can help protect insulin and maintain beta cell health
Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center have identified a previously underappreciated role for tiny structures inside cells called peroxisomes in protecting insulin and maintaining the health and maturity ...
Medical Xpress / Nearly one in five Medicaid-eligible adults may miss new 80-hour work rule
A new study found that nearly 20% of eligible adults in Medicaid expansion states are in danger of not meeting the minimum work hours that will be required nationwide beginning Jan. 1. Women, unmarried people, white individuals ...
Medical Xpress / People with atrial fibrillation at intermediate risk of stroke benefit from oral anticoagulants, clinical trial finds
Oral anticoagulant therapy lowered the risk of adverse clinical events compared with no anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation at intermediate stroke risk, according to results from the SINGLE-AF trial presented ...
Medical Xpress / Can total joint replacement particles reach the brain?
Total joint replacement is a proven treatment to relieve chronic knee pain, but concerns have been raised that particles from the device may migrate to the brain and cause memory problems. New research from Rush University ...
Medical Xpress / New combination therapy shows promise in metastatic pancreatic cancer
Results from an early-stage clinical trial, published in Nature Communications, showed encouraging outcomes among patients with newly diagnosed cancer whose tumors had spread to distant organs. Most strikingly, one patient ...
Medical Xpress / Even symptom-free IBD patients show gut cells primed for damage, study finds
Researchers have uncovered early molecular warning signs of inflammatory bowel disease, revealing the condition can begin before symptoms appear and continue silently even when patients appear well. The WEHI-led study found ...
Medical Xpress / World's first solar ambulance is energy independent while delivering health care in Kenya
Student team Solar Team Eindhoven from Eindhoven University of Technology has successfully completed the first practical tests of the solar ambulance Stella Juva in Kenya. The ambulance generates more solar energy than it ...
Medical Xpress / 22 million human immune cells help decode context-dependent gene circuits
Scientists from Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco and Stanford University, in collaboration with Biohub, have unveiled a massive, high-resolution functional map of human immune cells that promises to transform our understanding ...
