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Medical Xpress / Distinct brain features in football players may tell who is at risk of long-term traumatic disease
Brain scans from American football players reveal subtle differences in the brain's outer grooves when compared to scans from otherwise healthy men who never played contact or collision sports, a new study shows. Its authors ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds higher breast cancer rates in areas with more air pollution
Women living in parts of the United States with lower air quality, especially neighborhoods with heavy emissions from motor vehicles, are more likely to develop breast cancer, according to a multiyear analysis involving more ...
Medical Xpress / Insufficient sunlight exposure linked to higher rates of suicide
As the days are getting shorter, many people suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a kind of depression associated with the change of seasons and reduced hours of daylight in the fall and winter.
Medical Xpress / How bacteria that cause inflammatory colitis outmaneuver our body's defenses
Bacteria use multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria that cause colitis disable multiple host defense pathways using three specialized effector proteins, as reported by researchers from ...
Medical Xpress / AI models help pinpoint key neoantigens for personalized skin cancer vaccines
In a new study, University of Arizona researchers created a model for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, and identified two mutated tumor proteins, or neoantigens, that contain features of good candidates ...
Medical Xpress / New clinical tool can measure severity of debilitating skin disorders
A new clinical tool may improve how physicians assess the severity of a painful and often debilitating skin disorder, according to a study recently published in JAMA Dermatology.
Medical Xpress / Weight loss alone not enough to boost men's fertility
How men lose weight could affect their chances of having a baby, with new research from the University of Adelaide revealing healthy lifestyle behaviors seem more beneficial for improving fertility than weight loss itself.
Medical Xpress / Drones could cut travel delays and reduce spoilage of donated blood, study shows
Delivering blood from collection sites to labs is a fast-paced, labor-intensive process. Donated blood can deteriorate within a few hours at room temperature, leaving little room to maneuver in case of unexpected traffic ...
Medical Xpress / How our brain understands human actions
How do we recognize and interpret what others are doing—whether they're greeting a friend, preparing a meal together or doing sports? A new study authored by André Bockes, Ph.D. student at the Chair of Cognitive Neuroscience, ...
Medical Xpress / Genetic variants can simultaneously increase BMI and lower cholesterol risk
Individuals with a genetic profile that puts them at risk of obesity may not necessarily be at risk of having high cholesterol, UTHealth Houston researchers discovered.
Medical Xpress / Use of blood pressure and pulse monitoring device shows promise for maternal health
A new study shows that the use of a simple maternity innovation that measures the mother's blood pressure and pulse can be scaled nationally in Sierra Leone to aid early detection of maternal complications, but also highlights ...
Medical Xpress / How neurons go with the flow when migrating through the brain
Researchers have discovered how newly created neurons depend on blood flow in the adult brain to travel from their site of origin to their final location. The study in mice, published today in eLife, is described by the editors ...
