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A University of California, Riverside preclinical study is shedding light on a long-observed but poorly understood phenomenon: chronic cannabis users tend to have lower body weight and a reduced risk of developing type 2 ...

Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder that causes confused thinking, severe memory problems, and hallucinations. It affects about 23 million people worldwide, with cognitive dysfunction present in over 80% of patients. ...

Prescriptions for the anti-parasite medication ivermectin doubled in the months following an endorsement by a celebrity during a high-profile podcast as an off-label cancer treatment, a UCLA-led study finds.

A research team from the School of Public Health at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has found that brisk interval walking performed once a week can significantly improve body fat reduction ...

Developing effective immunotherapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has long been hampered by a critical challenge: Therapy directed at killing the leukemia cells may also harm the body's ability to make new, healthy blood ...

We feel more anxious when facing uncertain or unpredictable situations, but for those who score higher on autistic traits, this anxiety tends to be stronger. Published in Scientific Reports, a new study suggests uncertainty-driven ...

Researchers at Rice University and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a compact, artificial intelligence-powered imaging device that could transform how clinicians detect cancer. The technology, ...

A low dose of digoxin ensures that people with heart failure are hospitalized and die less frequently. This emerges from three studies led by UMCG cardiologists Dirk Jan van Veldhuisen, Kevin Damman, and Peter van der Meer. ...

Cocaine addiction treatment has found a surprising new contender in the highly regulated substance psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in mushroom species popularly known as magic mushrooms or shrooms. ...

While much is mysterious about the aging process, change over time remains its cornerstone. The biological shifts that accompany aging seemingly occur in many cells in the body. The problem is, we have tens of billions of ...

New research from King's College London and the University of Porto has mapped the histamine system in the brain. Histamine, a molecule more commonly associated with allergies, plays a separate but poorly understood role ...

A personalized vaccine to treat glioblastoma, a fast-growing and incurable brain cancer that affects four in 100,000 people in the U.S., is safe and elicits robust and broad immune responses that appear to increase recurrence-free ...