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Medical Xpress / Dietary compound boosts immunosuppressant's effect for lupus treatment
University of Alabama researchers have found that a combination of an existing immunosuppressant drug and a compound derived from dietary sources showed greater benefit than either treatment alone in a preclinical model of ...
Tech Xplore / Q&A: Promise and perils of agentic AI
Chatbots and large language models can execute a seemingly countless number of tasks, from writing emails and reports to generating code and analyzing data. However, they still primarily act only in response to user prompts ...
Phys.org / Preschool teachers overwhelmingly support play-based learning, study finds
Thinkers from Plato to Maria Montessori have championed play as one of the most powerful ways that young children learn and grow. American preschool teachers overwhelmingly agree—but a new study finds that teachers in urban ...
Medical Xpress / Though preventable, tetanus remains a global health problem
Tetanus is often considered a disease of the past, remembered mainly through childhood vaccinations and warnings about rusty nails. Yet despite being preventable with an effective vaccine, it continues to cause tens of thousands ...
Phys.org / Women compete just as hard as men for top jobs and can win them more often, auction-style study suggests
New behavioral economics research on gender and competition, using bidding experiments, finds no overall gender gap in competitiveness; where a gap does appear, it is women who push hardest for the highest positions.
Medical Xpress / Guinea-Bissau faces first mpox outbreak: UNICEF
Guinea-Bissau is facing its first outbreak of mpox, UN children's agency UNICEF said Thursday, voicing concern that half of suspected cases were affecting children and that the country is ill-prepared.
Phys.org / International review standardizes selenosugar nomenclature and selenium metabolism
Selenosugars are the major urinary metabolites responsible for the physiological excretion of selenium. Understanding selenium metabolism relies on accurately detecting and identifying selenosugars. However, research has ...
Medical Xpress / What cannabis use really tells us about university students' eating habits
Cannabis has a reputation for making people hungry. Popular culture has long joked about the "munchies," and many people assume that students who use cannabis naturally have poorer diets than those who don't.
Medical Xpress / Congo to receive 70,000 doses of Ervebo Ebola vaccine which has been effective in past outbreaks
Congo will receive 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine, which has been effective in past Ebola outbreaks, the World Health Organization and partners said Thursday, announcing a step seen as a major boost to efforts to contain ...
Medical Xpress / Hong Kong's first screening tool to detect social frailty in seniors
Loneliness and social isolation are widely recognized as harmful to older adults' health, yet frontline care workers have long lacked a simple, objective way to identify those most at risk. Researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic ...
Medical Xpress / New therapies help people with schizophrenia, but access is woefully inadequate
It's common to hear casual descriptions of "schizophrenic" behavior, describing a person oscillating between two extremes.
Phys.org / Occupational health challenges require more than individual support, new doctoral study shows
Mental health issues are now the most prevalent cause of sick leave in Finland. It is common for an employee's declining occupational well-being to result in a sick leave referral, while nothing changes at the workplace itself.
