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Medical Xpress / Why you miss the warning signs: The thinking style that can amplify surprises
Surprise parties. Marriage proposals. Sports upsets. Bank collapses. Military sneak attacks. Why do some unexpected events catch us completely off guard while others don't? For years, political scientists, security analysts, ...
Medical Xpress / Recent infection doubles the risk of childhood stroke
New Monash University-led research has, for the first time in Australia, found that children with an infection in the past 60 days had roughly twice the risk of stroke. Published in Neurology, the study provides the first ...
Medical Xpress / Seven different types of tension help characterize mental disorders
Hyperarousal plays an important role in mental disorders. It influences the severity of insomnia, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and ADHD. Yet it is striking that researchers do not always mean ...
Medical Xpress / How far will seniors go for a doctor visit? Often much farther than expected
Older Americans are willing to travel far for medical care—sometimes much farther than policymakers and experts assume, according to researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. As hospitals close ...
Medical Xpress / Screening with AI could cut unnecessary glaucoma referrals by half
Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide and often goes undiagnosed until vision loss is advanced. Population-wide screening has long been considered impractical, but recent advances in AI may provide ...
Medical Xpress / Early intervention in severe fetal megacystis can increase survival rate and kidney function
An interdisciplinary team from the University Hospitals Cologne and Bonn have conducted the first prospective study to investigate whether very early intervention in unborn children with congenital lower urinary tract obstruction ...
Medical Xpress / Stress rewires brain control networks, boosting pain tolerance in ice test
Stress resilience isn't a flatline. It's a flex, according to new research from Florida International University. Marcelo Bigliassi, assistant professor of psychophysiology, and Ph.D. student Dayanne Antonio thrive in creating ...
Medical Xpress / A single dose of psilocybin is more effective than nicotine patches for quitting smoking, study suggests
A new study, published in JAMA Network Open, reports the outcome of a clinical trial out of Johns Hopkins University assessing the effectiveness of psilocybin as a treatment for smokers attempting to quit. The trial compared ...
Medical Xpress / New strategy intercepts pancreatic cancer by eliminating microscopic lesions before they become cancer
A new preclinical study in mice shows that precancerous cells in the pancreas can be eliminated before they have the chance to become tumors. Using an experimental therapy to target microscopic precancerous lesions in the ...
Medical Xpress / Fatty acids that selectively kill senescent cells open new paths for age-related therapies
New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School has identified fatty acids that selectively induce death in senescent cells—the culprits behind aging and many chronic diseases—opening new avenues for age-related ...
Medical Xpress / A new reagent makes living brains transparent for deeper, non-invasive imaging
Making a living brain transparent and watching its neurons fire without disturbing their function—sounds like science fiction, doesn't it? Yet the solution may already exist within our own bodies. In a paper published in ...
Medical Xpress / A single blood test can predict heart diseases up to 15 years before onset
A research team from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has developed an innovative AI-based cardiovascular risk prediction tool, called CardiOmicScore. ...
