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Medical Xpress / Obesity promotes lung cancer by suppressing immune response, study shows
A research team led by experts at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has documented new evidence that excess abdominal fat increases the risk of developing non-small cell lung cancer. Published in the Journal of Thoracic ...
Medical Xpress / Womb fluid infusions help fetuses with kidney failure survive after birth
Women diagnosed early in pregnancy with a fetus lacking adequate kidney function to make the urine that serves as vital amniotic fluid have long faced virtually no chance of the fetus's survival after birth.
Medical Xpress / Neuron silence may predict epileptic seizures milliseconds before onset, could lead to seizure reduction device
After the storm comes the calm. But contrary to the famous proverb, the brain's neurons enter a period of calm before the neuronal storm that is an epileptic seizure. An international team of researchers has now demonstrated ...
Medical Xpress / Health apps and feeds reshape doctor visits, surveys of US adults show
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine recently published two new studies in JAMA Network Open and JAMA that offer new insights into how people interact with wearable devices and health-related content on social media.
Medical Xpress / Chromatin hubs help decide whether T cells fight chronic threats or fail
Chronic and viral infections can literally exhaust certain key cells in the immune system from a constant barrage of attacks. But a new pair of papers by scientists at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation ...
Medical Xpress / US teens underestimate risks of fentanyl use, survey finds
U.S. teens are seriously underestimating how lethal the synthetic opioid fentanyl can be, a new study says.
Medical Xpress / One-size-fits-all fetal growth charts often fail to spot at-risk babies, large study finds
One-size-fits-all fetal growth charts used in the NHS to monitor babies' growth before birth often misclassify babies as being either too small or too large, which can lead to missed cases at risk of stillbirth or unnecessary ...
Medical Xpress / After amyloid plaques form, tau and alpha-synuclein pathology rises in mice
The aging brain frequently harbors multiple protein pathologies that contribute to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases. But how do these problematic proteins interact with each other, and could these ...
Medical Xpress / Portable PS-OCT scanner could reveal donor liver health without biopsy
Each year, thousands of patients in the United States wait for a liver transplant, while transplant teams must make rapid, difficult decisions about whether donor organs are suitable for use. Many of those livers, particularly ...
Medical Xpress / People with past or current criminal legal involvement pay significantly more visits to emergency departments
People with a history of criminal legal involvement have higher odds of visiting an emergency department (ED), particularly for substance use and mental health reasons, according to a study published in PLOS One by Vidya ...
Medical Xpress / New 'human fidelity' standard could reshape how implantable brain devices are judged
Implantable brain devices—from deep brain stimulation to a new generation of brain-computer interfaces—can help people with severe, treatment-resistant psychiatric and neurological conditions or loss of function (such as ...
Medical Xpress / Not all birth controls are equal, some are linked to higher risk of brain tumors, study finds
Meningiomas are the most common brain tumors in adults, accounting for 38% to 42% of all primary central nervous system tumors. According to 2021 WHO data, 874 million of the world's 1.9 billion women of reproductive age ...
