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Medical Xpress / Discovery of noma-linked bacteria opens path to early diagnosis and prevention

Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have identified a bacterium strongly associated with noma disease, marking a major step toward earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment. In a new study published ...

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Medical Xpress / Blocking NOX-1 enzyme may extend ketamine's antidepressant effects

Treatment-resistant depression affects a large proportion of people with major depressive disorder, and while ketamine offers rapid relief, its antidepressant effects fade within a few weeks. Now, researchers from Japan have ...

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Medical Xpress / Why feeling alone may matter more than being alone

Loneliness is often described as a simple absence—of people, of connection, of companionship. But two new studies suggest it may be something more complex, and more consequential: not just how socially connected people are, ...

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Medical Xpress / Shedding light on the brain: New method controls neural pathway communication

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated networks. But scientists have ...

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Medical Xpress / 20,000 lab-grown human retinas reveal how cone photoreceptor cells resist degeneration

Scientists led by Botond Roska at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and collaborators have identified genetic pathways and compounds capable of protecting cone photoreceptors from the degeneration ...

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Medical Xpress / Common disinfectant chemicals far more toxic when inhaled, study finds

Breathing in common disinfectant chemicals known as quaternary ammonium compounds, or QACs, may be far more harmful than swallowing them, according to a mouse study led by researchers at the University of California, Davis. ...

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Medical Xpress / For severe babesiosis, red blood cell exchange is associated with markedly improved outcomes

A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham and Yale School of Public Health reveals that red blood cell exchange transfusion (ET) may provide critical benefits for patients hospitalized with severe babesiosis. ...

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Medical Xpress / How bacteria outsmart the immune system: Two-pronged strategy revealed

Researchers have uncovered how a disease-causing bacterium uses a single protein to interfere with the body's defenses in more than one way, offering a clearer picture of how infections take hold at the cellular level. The ...

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Medical Xpress / Burnout may lead family doctors to leave medicine

Family physicians who report feeling burned out are nearly 1.5 times more likely to change practices or stop practicing medicine entirely than their peers who don't report burnout, a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers ...

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Medical Xpress / Jail-based programs could dramatically reduce hepatitis C infections

A Stanford study shows that jail-based hepatitis C programs could cut new infections by nearly half among people who inject drugs, potentially providing a major boost to lagging U.S. efforts to meet national hepatitis C elimination ...

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Medical Xpress / A new lens on autism's sex bias: How X chromosome 'escape' genes could shape risk

Autism has a significant and enduring sex bias, with roughly four boys diagnosed for every girl. For many years, experts have believed this disparity arises primarily from diagnostic inequities because much of autism research—and ...

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Medical Xpress / Newly discovered recessive neurodevelopmental disorder may be most prevalent ever

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have identified and described a previously unknown recessive neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) that appears to be the most prevalent ever discovered. ...

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