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Medical Xpress / Combining two brain scans uncovers hidden clues to future teen anxiety
When you're a teenager, it's easy to feel like the world is watching your every mistake. For some kids, that sense of self‐consciousness fades as they grow up. For others, it deepens into full‐blown anxiety.
Medical Xpress / Your latest prescription is to get outside
Find a shady spot under a tree, take a breath of fresh air and call me in the morning.
Medical Xpress / Global survey reveals obesity hidden in normal BMI contributing to metabolic disorders
A multinational team of researchers has discovered that over 20% of adults with a normal BMI range experience levels of abdominal obesity that puts them at higher risk of hypertension, diabetes, high total cholesterol, and ...
Medical Xpress / Mitochondria and lysosomes reprogram immune cells that dampen inflammation
Metabolism guides the activation states of regulatory T cells, the immune cells that prevent inappropriate activation of the immune system. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists recently uncovered how mitochondria, ...
Dialog / Invisible wounds of the Ohio tornadoes: The mental health crisis after the storm
In early 2024, central Ohio faced one of its worst tornado seasons in history—66 confirmed tornadoes in less than five months.
Medical Xpress / Astrocyte-derived vesicles could link stress to intestinal inflammation
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, are chronic and autoimmune conditions characterized by the inflammation of the intestinal tract. This inflammation can cause nausea or vomiting, ...
Medical Xpress / Open-source software reveals complete 3D architecture of brain cells
The neurons in our brain that underlie thought connect to each other using tiny branch-like structures on their surfaces known as dendritic spines. Now scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and their colleagues have ...
Medical Xpress / HIV's shape-shifting protein reveals clues for smarter drug design
The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain. While symptoms can now be better managed with lifelong treatment, there is no cure to fully eliminate ...
Medical Xpress / Study reveals how a stubborn lung infection evolves inside patients over years
Researchers at Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI) and the Irish Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory at St James's Hospital have uncovered how the bacterium Mycobacterium avium—a leading cause of difficult-to-treat ...
Medical Xpress / How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep
A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham has used next-generation imaging technology to discover that when the brain is falling asleep, it shows a coordinated shift in activity.
Medical Xpress / Living tumor-on-a-chip exposes how cancers block immune attacks
For a little over two decades, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has emerged as a powerful new way to treat cancer. By extracting patients' T cells, re-engineering them to recognize tumor antigens, and infusing ...
Medical Xpress / Key nervous system components shown to influence gastrointestinal tumor growth
Australian researchers have identified two nervous system components that drive tumor growth in gastrointestinal cancers, creating promising new avenues for treatment with existing approved therapies.
