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Medical Xpress / Study warns of 'creeping catastrophe' as climate change drives a rise in infectious diseases
Infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose as great a challenge to global health as new or emerging pathogens, according to a major international study led by The Global Health Network ...
Medical Xpress / Oregon's first-in-the-nation hospital price cap cuts costs without compromising care
As health care costs continue to soar across the U.S., a growing number of states are setting limits on how much hospitals can charge. These policies, known as hospital payment caps, aim to curb spending by tying hospital ...
Medical Xpress / New evidence questions the benefit of calcium supplements in pregnancy for preventing pre-eclampsia
Researchers from Stellenbosch University have found strong evidence from large trials that calcium supplementation during pregnancy does not reduce the risk of preeclampsia.
Medical Xpress / Nitrogen dioxide exposure from gas stoves can be avoided by switching to electric
Twenty-two million Americans would no longer be breathing in unhealthy levels of nitrogen dioxide if they switched from gas and propane stoves to electric stoves.
Medical Xpress / Why undisturbed sleep is important to brain injury recovery
A new study highlights how important uninterrupted sleep is to recovery after a traumatic brain injury, finding that fragmented sleep in injured mice is linked to a loss of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep and increased fatigue.
Medical Xpress / How anti-epilepsy drugs alter a key brain protein structure
A multi-institute team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators established for the first time how certain drugs used to treat epilepsy affect their target.
Medical Xpress / Antibody designed to guide immune cells against hard-to-treat cancer types
A cancer-targeting antibody that helps the body's immune cells spot and destroy hard-to-treat tumors such as triple-negative breast cancer has been developed by researchers.
Medical Xpress / How the nervous system activates repair after spinal cord injury
After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this response is controlled ...
Medical Xpress / COVID-19 pandemic linked to increases in childhood obesity
The COVID-19 pandemic not only disrupted children's education, recreation, and social lives, but it also increased the prevalence of obesity in the U.S. pediatric population by roughly 1 million youngsters, according to a ...
Medical Xpress / Making quieter dental drills to reduce dental anxiety
Dental anxiety, also known as odontophobia, prevents people from getting their regular cleanings and keeping up with necessary dental hygiene.
Medical Xpress / Comparing DNA language models to guide optimal AI selection for genomics
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have performed a comprehensive evaluation of five artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on genomic sequences, known as DNA foundation language models. ...
Medical Xpress / How circadian rhythms can help boost infection recovery
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that circadian rhythms—the biological clocks of the body—can influence outcomes related to influenza infections, providing clinicians with insight about ...
