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Medical Xpress / Pregnancy-related complications are not the most common causes of maternal death among pregnant women, new mothers
Researchers at Columbia University have found that accidental drug overdose, homicide, and suicide are the leading causes of death among pregnant and postpartum women. The researchers used information on death certificates ...
Medical Xpress / Atherosclerosis may start in childhood: New data tie obesity to early vascular damage
A study of 130 children between the ages of 6 and 11 conducted by researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil has identified that obesity alone can cause immediate damage to children's cardiovascular ...
Medical Xpress / Keeping your mind active throughout life associated with lower Alzheimer's risk
Engaging in a variety of intellectually stimulating activities throughout life, such as reading, writing and learning a language, is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease and slower cognitive decline, according ...
Medical Xpress / A new roadmap spotlights aging as key to advancing research in Parkinson's disease
Even though aging is the largest risk factor for Parkinson's disease, the majority of research aimed at taming the incurable neurodegenerative motor disease has largely left aging out of the mix. A group of researchers from ...
Medical Xpress / Report reveals a significant global palliative care gap among children
Nearly all the world's 10.6 million children experiencing serious health-related suffering (SHS) live in low- and middle-income countries with little to no access to palliative care or specialized care for their illness, ...
Medical Xpress / Genes within uterine gland cells shed light on potential causes of infertility
Even in the best-case scenario, when fertility clinics transfer chromosomally normal embryos into a would-be mother's uterus, the procedure only leads to a live birth half of the time. Some embryo transfers result in a pregnancy, ...
Medical Xpress / Combining AI with optical coherence tomography shows potential for detecting lipid-rich plaques in coronary arteries
Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-based approach for detecting fatty deposits inside coronary arteries using optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. Because these lipid-rich plaques are strongly ...
Medical Xpress / Rewards vs. goals: How a brain signal used to study depression tells us about our immediate desires
James Cavanagh has been at the University of New Mexico for 13 years studying cognitive neuroscience and using imaging tools to understand psychiatric and neurological disorders. His most recent publication in Trends in Cognitive ...
Medical Xpress / Molecule found to drive skin cancer growth and evade immune detection
A molecule that helps regulate gene activity has also been shown to drive skin cancer growth and tumors' ability to evade attack by the body's immune system, a new study shows. Led by researchers at NYU Langone Health and ...
Medical Xpress / New biosensor technology could improve glucose monitoring
A wearable biosensor developed by Washington State University researchers could improve wireless glucose monitoring for people with diabetes, making it more cost-effective, accurate, and less invasive than current models. ...
Medical Xpress / Studies test whether gene-editing can fix high cholesterol. For now, take your medicine
Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol.
Medical Xpress / Review calls for risk-based screening as never-smoker lung cancers rise
Lung cancer patients who have never smoked make up a significant and growing share of global lung cancer cases, yet remain an understudied group, according to a new review written by UCL (University College London) researchers.
