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Medical Xpress / Chilled platelets could safely expand lifesaving supply to bleeding patients, trial shows
In a thoughtfully designed adaptive clinical trial, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine physician-scientists demonstrated that the U.S. could triple or quadruple the supply of platelets available to help save patients ...
Medical Xpress / Video games built for prevention can reduce teen depression
Few parents or teachers are likely to suggest that teenagers could benefit from playing more video games. But a new study suggests that a growing class of educational games may be a highly effective tool for treating and ...
Medical Xpress / Taking screenshots makes you more likely to forget information
Snapping a photo or taking a screenshot to remember something? According to recent cognitive research from Binghamton University's Psychology Department, the practice may make you more likely to forget.
Medical Xpress / Focusing on bodily sensations may dampen acute inflammation, human experiments suggest
We usually think of bodily sensations as information the brain receives. What if the way we attend to those sensations can feed back and change the biological response itself?
Medical Xpress / People who consume sugar-sweetened beverages on a daily basis have higher risk of stomach cancer
Approximately 65% of U.S. adults report consuming one or more sugar-sweetened beverages every day. Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute researchers found that consuming these drinks daily was associated with an increased ...
Medical Xpress / Music streaming linked to rise in traffic deaths
When a blockbuster album drops, streaming numbers may not be the only thing that spikes.
Medical Xpress / ULTRA maps glioma margins in 3D within 30 minutes
One of the major challenges in glioma surgery is that tumor boundaries are often difficult to define. Diffuse gliomas can infiltrate surrounding brain tissue beyond what surgeons can see directly or what conventional imaging ...
Medical Xpress / Implantable device may help restore function after spinal cord injury
Researchers from Houston Methodist and the University of Cambridge have developed a flexible device that wraps around the spinal cord and can simultaneously interpret multiple signals related to movement, sensation and internal ...
Medical Xpress / Fast-spreading malaria parasite mutations in Uganda may weaken Africa's most widely used malaria therapy
Researchers searching for genetic clues to the growing problem of malaria drug resistance have identified new mutations associated with the parasite's decreased susceptibility to current treatment. By sequencing the whole ...
Medical Xpress / Obesity weakens anti-tumor immune response in lung cancer, but exercise may restore it
Obesity can weaken the immune system's tumor-killing responses in lung cancer, leading to disease progression, but a new study by experts at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center reveals that exercise may reverse this ...
Medical Xpress / Booster vaccination strengthens existing defenses against newer COVID-19 variants
The SARS-CoV-2 genome is subject to constant mutations. Some of these mutations reduce the effectiveness of RNA-based vaccines, which consequently have to be adapted regularly. Until now, however, it was unclear how the immune ...
Medical Xpress / Clean air policies linked to improved cognition among New York City children
Beginning in the late 1990s, air pollution declined in New York City following the implementation of clean air and climate policies. According to new research by scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public ...