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Medical Xpress / Intensive blood pressure lowering cut recurrent stroke risk by around 38% after brain hemorrhage
Intensive, long-term blood pressure-lowering treatment reduced the risk of recurrent stroke by 38%, without increasing serious adverse events, in people who have survived an intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). The findings of ...
Medical Xpress / Men's higher TB burden may stem from greater exposure, not disease progression
Men are more likely than women to catch tuberculosis (TB), finds a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers. Globally, men account for around two-thirds of people diagnosed with TB, but until now, the ...
Medical Xpress / Postpartum pelvic floor symptoms linked to depression and low self-esteem
Pain, bleeding, itching and other bowel-related problems after childbirth are not merely a matter of physical discomfort. A study conducted by researchers from Wroclaw Medical University shows that more severe pelvic floor ...
Phys.org / Greener processing cuts cost of novel material for water decontamination
University of Birmingham scientists who used green chemistry to make a next-generation metal-organic framework (MOF) for capturing heavy metals from wastewater have shown that it is cheaper and more resource-efficient to ...
Medical Xpress / Personalized T-cell therapy eliminates detectable metastatic kidney tumor in adolescent after multiple relapses
Researchers and physicians at the Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ) and other leading cancer centers report an exceptional treatment outcome in an adolescent with an advanced, treatment-resistant kidney tumor. ...
Medical Xpress / Nearly 40% of inpatient psychiatric nurses suffer high burnout; work environment holds solution
A new study published in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing reveals that four in 10 inpatient psychiatric mental health registered nurses (PMH-RNs) experience high burnout. However, researchers found that ...
Medical Xpress / Restoring inhibitory neuron plasticity may reverse neurodevelopmental disorder symptoms, preclinical study suggests
Some of the symptoms of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), such as autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy, may result from dysfunction of certain neurons in the brain and their ability to change their properties in response ...
Medical Xpress / Patients wary of governments, companies pushing AI as a rural health care solution
Two of the nation's most powerful health officials predict artificial intelligence will play a key role in solving rural America's health challenges. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a panel of U.S. senators that ...
Medical Xpress / Epidural may help turn breech babies, reducing need for C-section
Women carrying breech babies have a better chance of avoiding a cesarean delivery (C-section) when spinal or epidural anesthesia is used during external cephalic version (ECV), a procedure used to turn the baby head-down ...
Phys.org / Star cluster discovery could change how scientists measure the universe
University of Missouri researchers have uncovered evidence that challenges one of astronomy's most trusted assumptions, a breakthrough that could reshape how scientists measure galaxies and reconstruct the history of the ...
Phys.org / Cosmic filaments help set first limits on dark matter's decay into gravitons
Composing some 85% of the universe's total mass, dark matter betrays its presence only through gravity, unlike ordinary matter. Yet through new research published in Physical Review D, a team led by David Dunsky of New York ...
Phys.org / Three supermassive black holes discovered in a single galaxy for the first time
An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has identified three actively accreting supermassive black holes in the galaxy J0148-4214. Matter is falling into the black ...
