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Medical Xpress / Post-disaster financial and social toll on mothers linked to poorer mental health in their children
Children's mental health may be indirectly harmed by their mothers' experience of a major disaster, through the financial and social losses the disaster causes, according to a new study published in PLOS One by Ariane Lisann ...
Medical Xpress / Key Alzheimer's risk factor may behave differently in older Hispanic adults
Researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC analyzed brain imaging and clinical data from more than 17,000 participants across five ...
Medical Xpress / How intermittent fasting may shield the brain from chronic stress
Chronic stress, the prolonged exposure to psychological and/or physical strain, is known to be a risk factor for depression, anxiety and some other psychiatric disorders. Past studies suggest that chronic stress disrupts ...
Medical Xpress / An intranasal flu vaccine approved two decades ago may have underappreciated immune benefits
For decades, influenza vaccines have been judged largely by the antibodies they generate in the bloodstream, a measure that has remained the gold standard since the first flu immunizations were administered in the 1940s.
Medical Xpress / Gazing longer at something contributes to memory encoding, study finds
While humans are observing their surroundings, their eyes tend to rapidly shift between different objects, people and details that catch their attention, pausing briefly on each one. In psychology, prolonged pauses on specific ...
Medical Xpress / Kidney healing improves after protein blockade, with less scarring and faster recovery
A drug previously developed at UCLA to help heart tissue repair itself after a heart attack might also help kidney tissue repair and regenerate, researchers have found.
Medical Xpress / Seven years after Ebola, survivors still live with neurological scars left by the disease
Ebola virus disease is caused by infection with an orthobolavirus found primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and can be fatal in 50% of those infected, on average. Among those who survive the disease, it leaves behind its imprint ...
Medical Xpress / Many cancers originate from a single cancer cell and evolve through early bursts of chromosome changes
A comprehensive multi-cancer study by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has revealed that cancer cells within tumors are genetically diverse, yet all carry the same core genetic changes that ...
Medical Xpress / Immune cell circuit restores barrier function in inflammatory bowel disease
Scientists have discovered a new protective communication circuit between specialized immune cells in the intestines, a circuit that may be therapeutically targeted to improve inflammatory bowel disease outcomes, according ...
Medical Xpress / AI-guided ultrasound improves blood–brain barrier opening procedures by predicting bubble collapse
A study led by Georgia Institute of Technology's Associate Professor Costas Arvanitis takes a major step toward safer and more effective treatment and diagnosis of brain diseases. His team's research, published in Advanced ...
Medical Xpress / 1940s-era drug helps uncover kidney pathway that may improve disease treatment
Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a previously unrecognized way the kidneys regulate water balance—an advance that could lead to improved treatments for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and other disorders. The study, ...
Medical Xpress / Shingles vaccine may lower dementia risk, study suggests
Older adults who received a shingles vaccine after a stay in a skilled nursing facility had a 24% lower risk of being diagnosed with dementia over a four-year period than those who were not vaccinated, according to a new ...
