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Medical Xpress / 3D-printed ATLAS platform helps model cancer cell clusters behind metastasis
Metastasis, the spread of cancer from a primary tumor to other parts of the body, is difficult to study in the lab, in part because researchers lack reliable ways to recreate the conditions cancer cells encounter as they ...
Medical Xpress / Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise as a way to counter Alzheimer's disease‑ and age‑related memory loss
Most people think of Alzheimer's disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier—sometime around the third decade of life.
Medical Xpress / Nicotine e-cigarettes found to be more successful in helping smokers quit
A new analysis of existing studies co-led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst public health researcher finds that nicotine e-cigarettes consistently help adults quit smoking, a conclusion that emerges with striking agreement ...
Medical Xpress / For the first time, scientists have mapped the genetics of how the brain ages, region by region
A landmark research paper for the first time maps the genetics of how individual regions of the brain age—and why some of those regions are the very ones most ravaged by Alzheimer's and dementia. Published in the journal ...
Medical Xpress / Want to lose weight? Try eating the same meals on repeat, say researchers
Sticking to the same meals and eating a consistent number of calories each day may help people lose more weight, according to research published in the journal Health Psychology.
Medical Xpress / Eating about 4,200 mg sodium a day may raise heart failure risk 15%
Excessive consumption of dietary sodium (salt) is a significant, independent risk factor for new-onset heart failure, according to a report from Vanderbilt Health, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: ...
Medical Xpress / Global maternal deaths fell in 2023, but more than 100 countries still fall short of maternal mortality target: Study
Global maternal deaths have declined over the past three decades, yet progress has slowed in recent years and remains uneven across countries, according to new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2023 research published in The ...
Medical Xpress / Kidney transplant system could be missing opportunity to save more lives and reduce costs
Despite an urgent demand for kidney donors in the U.S., about 1 in 4 donor kidneys goes unused. In 2022, more than 71,000 people were on the kidney transplant waiting list, with waitlists often extending as long as five years ...
Medical Xpress / Struggling to identify emotions may increase vulnerability to TikTok addiction
No matter where we turn on social media, short videos are everywhere. Repeated exposure to this brief, information-dense, and rewarding content stimulates the brain in a way that tells us the experience is pleasurable or ...
Medical Xpress / Developing an antibiotic reservoir to prevent post-surgical infections
Nearly one in 10 people who are implanted with a surgical fix to their spine will develop a serious bacterial infection, despite prophylactic antibiotic treatment. In a recent study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers ...
Medical Xpress / Continuous wearable monitoring reduces time with low oxygen after surgery, study finds
Patients continuously monitored after surgery experienced significantly less time with dangerously low oxygen levels compared to those monitored using routine spot checks, a new study from Wake Forest University School of ...
Medical Xpress / Adversarial AI framework reveals mechanisms behind impaired consciousness and a potential therapy
Consciousness, and the ways in which it can become impaired after certain brain injuries, are not well understood, making disorders of consciousness (DOC), like coma, vegetative states and minimally conscious states difficult ...
