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Medical Xpress / Workout or nap? Either can help your sleepless brain, study finds
A short workout or a nap can help protect memory after a sleepless night, a McGill University-led study has found.
Medical Xpress / Dual therapy activates immune defenses while damaging lung cancer DNA
A new preclinical study has demonstrated that combining HER3-DXd with olaparib significantly improves treatment responses in lung cancer models. This combination therapy induces irreparable DNA damage in cancer cells while ...
Medical Xpress / Can you slow the aging process? Study reveals which interventions might help
When Raghav Sehgal arrived at Yale as a graduate student several years ago, he wanted to explore the use of powerful computer science tools in cancer research. With an engineering background and a computational biology startup ...
Medical Xpress / How patients write portal messages may affect whether doctors respond
Portal messages have become a routine way for patients to communicate with their health care teams. But a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that how patients write those messages ...
Medical Xpress / Dual beta rhythms could guide more precise Parkinson's brain stimulation
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center studying Parkinson's disease have discovered a previously unrecognized sequence of abnormal activity across multiple regions of the brain, providing a new level of understanding ...
Medical Xpress / Metalheads can endure pain longer thanks to the festival experience
True to the motto "Faster, harder, louder," some 80,000 metal fans celebrate their music and bands at Wacken Open Air every year. Lydia Schneider and Tom Fritz from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ...
Medical Xpress / Mulberry leaves and fruit may influence gut bacteria linked to metabolism
Mulberry has long been used as both food and traditional medicine. Today, scientists are investigating whether its compounds can influence the gut microbiota and, through it, metabolism. A review involving researchers from ...
Medical Xpress / Thrombectomy provides 1-year gains for patients with severe stroke
A one-year follow-up analysis of a landmark clinical trial suggests that patients with severe strokes experienced better long-term outcomes after undergoing endovascular thrombectomy compared with medical management alone, ...
Medical Xpress / The physical activity paradox: Not all forms of exercise lower your dementia risk. This type raises it
Not all physical activity is equal when it comes to protecting the brain from dementia. Where and why we move may matter more than most people realize.
Medical Xpress / Clinical trial to treat rectal cancer spares major surgery
A new treatment for earlier-stage rectal cancer could transform how patients are treated for the disease, according to a landmark clinical trial.
Medical Xpress / Enhancing confidence in AI enhanced brain tumor imaging by measuring uncertainty
MRIs are among the most accurate imaging tests used to diagnose brain tumors, and MRI-based monitoring of tumors guides critical treatment decisions. The clinical standard for measuring tumors often relies on either subjective ...
Medical Xpress / Illicit fentanyl use is more than double medical use in US
The largest study to date to quantify and compare medical and illicit fentanyl use in the United States suggests that illicit use is more than twice as common as medical use.
