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Medical Xpress / Elderly people living at home have less control, not more
Today, most older people with disabilities receive help at home, and there are limited places in nursing homes. At the same time, politicians claim that living at home provides independence and control over everyday life.
Phys.org / Electyrolyzer experiment designated ready-to-fly by NASA
A Southwest Research Institute and University of Texas at San Antonio experiment has passed a critical NASA review, designating it ready for parabolic flight testing. The two institutions will evaluate the performance of ...
Phys.org / Researcher shows how AI can personalize learning for homeschooling families
More than 3.4 million American children, or about 6% of the school-age population, now learn at home, and that group has grown at nearly three times the pre-pandemic rate. Homeschooling is also increasingly popular in countries ...
Phys.org / Rapid bacterial community profiling of equine microbiomes using Oxford Nanopore sequencing
Members of the Horse Microbiome Research Group recently published a new study in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, led by Dr. Joy Leng, who is currently undertaking the Alborada Well Foal 2 project. This research aims ...
Medical Xpress / Method to standardize research into brain stimulation could help speed development of treatments
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)—a noninvasive brain stimulation technique that influences activity in specific areas of the brain—is widely used by researchers to better understand how the brain functions and is also ...
Medical Xpress / Biological sex linked to protein changes in lung adenocarcinoma and other cancers
Biological sex factors into cancer in ways you might not expect. In lung cancer, a form called squamous cell carcinoma disproportionately affects male patients, while adenocarcinoma occurs more frequently in female patients. ...
Medical Xpress / Examining the consequences of discontinuing GLP-1 medications on addiction-related hospitalizations
GLP-1 receptor agonists are among the active ingredients in so-called weight-loss injections. Originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes, they are now also used to treat severe obesity. In recent years, studies have provided ...
Phys.org / The 'forgotten children' of sexual abuse in family settings
When a child has been sexually abused by a family member, post-disclosure interventions prioritize the child who was victimized. Siblings who were not directly abused can also be deeply affected. New research from McGill ...
Tech Xplore / Microsoft strikes deal for Mistral's AI computing power
Microsoft on Tuesday sought to reassure European users with a "multi-billion-dollar" deal to rent AI infrastructure from Mistral, hoisting the French developer into the lucrative business of renting compute capacity.
Medical Xpress / Childhood exposure to air pollution linked to higher metabolic syndrome risk
Although the effects of air pollution on respiratory diseases are well established, its effects on cardiometabolic health are often overlooked. This population-based European cohort study led by the Barcelona Institute for ...
Medical Xpress / Doctor-patient common language associated with better long-term survival for minority populations
Sharing a common language is key to improved long-term health for Francophone and diverse linguistic communities, according to researchers from the University of Ottawa and the University of Manitoba.
Medical Xpress / Women with PMOS at four-fold higher risk of heart disease
Women with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS; also known as polycystic ovary syndrome or PCOS) face a fourfold higher risk of heart disease than women without PMOS, according to a new nationwide U.S. study published ...
