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Medical Xpress / Cancer's malignant remote control: How tumors reprogram liver fat metabolism to disarm immune cells
In their quest to understand how cancers take root, grow and spread, scientists have for the past half-century explored the genetic aberrations and microenvironmental peculiarities of tumors and their constituent cells. Such ...
Medical Xpress / Evidence often falls short in neuroscience reports of sex-dependent effects, analysis finds
Studies in the behavioral and brain sciences reporting a major sex-dependent effect—that a drug, treatment or other intervention is more effective in one sex than another—are supported by appropriate evidence less than 25% ...
Medical Xpress / Each breath is linked to brain activity, offering clues to epilepsy-related breathing failures
A new study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego shows that the brain does not simply respond to breathing as a steady rhythm. Instead, the detailed shape of each individual breath is closely linked ...
Medical Xpress / Potent antiplatelet drugs increase major bleeding risk in AF patients after heart attack
Potent antiplatelet therapy increased bleeding without signs of benefit regarding cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation after a heart attack. This was the main finding of the EPIDAURUS trial presented ...
Medical Xpress / Night owls experience more mental health issues than early birds and take longer to recover from work
Balancing work and personal life is more challenging for evening types, or "night owls," than for morning types, or "early birds." Evening types have a harder time recovering from work and are more likely to have mental health ...
Medical Xpress / Targeting protein synthesis control regions may reduce seizures in genetic epilepsy
Targeting the control of protein synthesis in the KCNQ2 gene may serve as a potential disease-modifying strategy for patients with a genetic form of neonatal-onset epilepsy and impaired brain development, according to a Northwestern ...
Medical Xpress / When danger becomes familiar, falling dopamine may free mice to pursue rewards
When an animal encounters a potential threat in its environment, it must focus completely on the danger to protect itself. But with repeated exposure, the threat becomes familiar and less important. The animal learns to adapt ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists identify genes that could reduce APOE4 Alzheimer's disease risk
An international team of researchers led by Michael E. Belloy, Ph.D., an assistant professor of neurology and psychiatry at WashU Medicine, identified key genetic targets for developing potential Alzheimer's disease therapeutics. ...
Medical Xpress / Most women wear shoes that don't match their feet, study finds
Most women in a new RMIT University study wore shoe sizes that differed from the size indicated by their foot length, highlighting the limitations of conventional sizing systems in accounting for differences in foot width ...
Medical Xpress / GLP-1s do not cause major psychiatric harm, according to new study
There is no link between the widely used diabetes and obesity medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists and increased suicidal thoughts, depression or other serious psychiatric harm, based on an integrative review of current ...
Medical Xpress / Extended Paxlovid fails to ease long COVID symptoms in 959-person trial
Results from a clinical trial and published today in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases show that the antiviral drug Paxlovid, commonly prescribed to treat acute COVID-19, does not affect long COVID symptoms compared ...
Medical Xpress / Memory decline starts earlier than you think, new research suggests
Memory loss is usually thought of as something to address as a person ages. Slip-ups like forgetting someone's name or recognizing a familiar face but not remembering where you know them from are often viewed as issues that ...
