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Medical Xpress / Eating an avocado a day lowers heart disease risk factor for people with obesity
Eating an avocado every day may decrease heart disease risk in adults with obesity, according to a recent study led by researchers in the Penn State Department of Nutritional Sciences and published in the Journal of Clinical ...
Medical Xpress / Hormonal changes during puberty linked to emotional distress in young girls
Testosterone may play a bigger role in the emotional development of girls entering puberty than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Georgia published in Psychoneuroendocrinology. Greater changes ...
Medical Xpress / Two-year lifestyle program improves older adults' cognition 55% more, trial finds
Older adults who followed a structured, 2-year healthy lifestyle program improved their memory and thinking skills significantly more than those who received only general health advice, according to the Latin American Initiative ...
Medical Xpress / New clues raise hopes for better treatment of RSV in babies
Future therapies for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) must target both the virus and the immune response to ensure babies get the best possible outcomes, a new study by researchers at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital ...
Medical Xpress / 'Double-donut' structure of SPOP protein reveals mechanism of unexplained cancer mutations
Mutations to the protein SPOP are widespread in cancer, yet many remain poorly understood. To address this gap, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists obtained structures of SPOP in both the presence and absence ...
Medical Xpress / Ibuprofen safely dampens inflammatory markers in 28-patient drug-resistant tuberculosis trial
The Experimental Tuberculosis Unit (UTE) at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) has published in Nature Communications the results of a phase IIa pilot clinical trial assessing ibuprofen as a host-directed ...
Medical Xpress / Contact-free sensors could help track movement symptoms in Parkinson's disease
Disease progression in people with Parkinson's disease can be accurately monitored using sensors, removing some of the limitations of wearable technologies, a new study reports. In the study published in the Journal of NeuroEngineering ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers reveal immune mechanisms that drive development of rare allergic stomach disease
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed one of the first experimental models that faithfully reproduces eosinophilic gastritis (EoG), a rare but increasingly recognized allergic disease of the stomach. Using this ...
Medical Xpress / Heat exposure during pregnancy and infancy may influence children's brain development
Exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy and early infancy is associated with slower growth of the thalamus later in childhood, according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a center ...
Medical Xpress / Ureters stay visible for hours with dye designed to vanish through kidneys
A cross-disciplinary research team led by Hongjie Dai, director of the Materials Institute of Life Sciences and Energy (MILES) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in Shenzhen, has developed a promising near-infrared (NIR) ...
Medical Xpress / Patients whose physicians scored higher in LKA less likely to receive low-value care
Patients whose physicians scored higher in the first year of the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Internal Medicine Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment (LKA) were significantly less likely to receive low-value health ...
Medical Xpress / Dementia rising across Latino populations, multidecade study finds
A new study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Newcastle University in the U.K. finds that the share of adults living with dementia rose substantially across several Latin American ...
