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Medical Xpress / Family dinners may reduce substance-use risk for many adolescents
A new study by researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine finds that regular family dinners may help prevent substance use for a majority of U.S. adolescents, but suggests that the strategy is not effective for youth ...
Medical Xpress / High ultra-processed food diets linked to 47% higher cardiovascular disease risk
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrially modified products loaded with added fats, sugars, starches, salts and chemical additives like emulsifiers. From sodas to snacks and processed meats, these foods are stripped of ...
Medical Xpress / 'Missing link' protein key to restoring disorganized blood vessels
Blood flows around the body through a complex network of vessels, which must constantly adapt to changing needs. The balance between growing new vessels and stabilizing existing vessels, so they aren't leaky, must be finely ...
Medical Xpress / Powerful AI can help diagnose substance use disorder, could speed treatment
Diagnosing substance-use disorder can be difficult because of patient denial related to the stigma attached to addiction. Now a study by the University of Cincinnati has used a novel artificial intelligence to predict substance-use-defining ...
Medical Xpress / 4D-printed vascular stent deploys at body temperature, eliminating external heating
Next-generation vascular stents can make cardiovascular therapies minimally invasive and vascular treatments safe and less burdensome. In a new advancement, researchers from Japan and China have successfully proposed a novel ...
Medical Xpress / How shift work and irregular eating impact your liver body clock
Shift work and irregular eating patterns could affect liver function and disrupt its delicate circadian rhythm, University of Queensland researchers have found. Dr. Meltem Weger from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience ...
Medical Xpress / Choline could reduce pregnancy inflammation, study suggests
Pregnancy is, biologically speaking, a state of controlled upheaval. The immune system recalibrates. Blood volume surges. And sometimes, inflammation rises to unsafe levels, with potential adverse health effects for both ...
Medical Xpress / Targeting HIV's hidden reservoirs: Lab-enhanced natural killer cells show promise
More than 30 million people with HIV must take antiretroviral therapy (ART) medications daily to keep the virus under control, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The drugs are effective ...
Medical Xpress / Pandemic disruptions to health care worsened cancer survival, study suggests
During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts worried that disruptions to cancer diagnosis and treatment would cost lives. A new study suggests they were right.
Medical Xpress / Fentanyl is changing how doctors treat opioid use disorder
For years, buprenorphine—one of the primary medications used to treat opioid use disorder—has been a critical bridge to recovery, helping to reduce illicit drug use and overdose deaths. But with the changing landscape ...
Medical Xpress / Post-Dobbs state abortion bans tied to higher postpartum depression risk in low‑income communities
A new national study of Medicaid enrollees finds that postpartum depression (PPD) rose significantly among women and adolescents living in low-income areas of states that banned or severely restricted abortion following the ...
Medical Xpress / Clopidogrel shown to be superior to aspirin for long-term antiplatelet therapy after coronary stenting
A research team has demonstrated that clopidogrel is more effective than aspirin as a long-term antiplatelet therapy in patients at high risk of recurrent cardiovascular events after coronary stent implantation. The team ...
