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Medical Xpress / Identifying depression, anxiety symptoms prior to puberty in adolescent females
Regardless of age, symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescent females showed little to no variation prior to their first menstruation, indicating an early screening window prior to puberty, according to a study led ...
Medical Xpress / What's the secret to building resilience in elite sports?
A study has shed new light on how resilience develops in elite athletes, providing invaluable insights for enhancing both performance and mental health in competitive sports.
Medical Xpress / Large analysis finds that for healthy adults, taking multivitamins daily is not associated with a lower risk of death
A large analysis of data from nearly 400,000 healthy U.S. adults followed for more than 20 years has found no association between regular multivitamin use and lower risk of death. The study, "Multivitamin Use and Mortality ...
Medical Xpress / Research uncovers 'molecular glue' that helps ensure memory formation and stabilization
Whether it's a first-time visit to a zoo or when we learned to ride a bicycle, we have memories from our childhoods kept well into adult years. But what explains how these memories last nearly an entire lifetime?
Medical Xpress / 'Wake-up call': third of adults not doing enough physical activity
Nearly a third of all adults are not doing enough physical activity, posing a growing threat to health across the world, a major study said on Wednesday.
Medical Xpress / Study shows how liver damage from stress and aging might be reversible
While the liver is one of the body's most resilient organs, it is still vulnerable to the ravages of stress and aging, leading to disease, severe scarring and failure. A Duke Health research team now might have found a way ...
Medical Xpress / Neuroscience research leverages stem cells to understand how neurons connect and communicate in the brain
Newly published research from Colorado State University answers fundamental questions about cellular connectivity in the brain that could be useful in the development of treatments for neurological diseases like autism, epilepsy ...
Medical Xpress / New study shows alcohol rehabilitation and abstinence reduce the risk of alcohol-associated cancers
A new study conducted by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Bordeaux University Hospital, France, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has found that individuals with alcohol dependence who undergo rehabilitation ...
Medical Xpress / University of Minnesota retracts pioneering studies in stem cells, Alzheimer's disease
Years after questions were raised about their integrity, two of the University of Minnesota's highest-profile scientific discoveries have been retracted in one week—one that offered hope over the therapeutic potential of ...
Medical Xpress / Majority of female cancer survivors at low risk of developing most obstetric complications
In a paper published in The Lancet Oncology, a research team led by academics from the University of Birmingham, in collaboration with the Universities of Bristol and Edinburgh, has analyzed data from almost 100,000 female ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers identify vascular changes in the brain linked to Alzheimer's disease
The blood-brain barrier—a network of blood vessels and tissues that nurtures and protects the brain from harmful substances circulating in the blood—is disrupted in Alzheimer's disease. Now, researchers at Mayo Clinic ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers pioneer noninvasive gene therapy for brain disorders
A new method developed by a research team led by Rice University's Jerzy Szablowski offers hope for treating brain disorders through gene therapy. The innovative approach could transform treatments for inherited conditions ...