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Medical Xpress / Providing food baskets to people with tuberculosis is cost-effective, could avert over 100,000 deaths annually in India
Undernutrition is the single greatest modifiable risk factor for tuberculosis (TB), contributing to immune suppression, treatment failure, and death. Despite this, nutritional support has not traditionally been a part of ...
Medical Xpress / Fiber's structural integrity keeps plants strong—and its indigestibility keeps your digestive system healthy
If you're over the age of 10, the World Health Organization recommends that you consume at least 25 grams of fiber every day. The best fiber-containing foods come from plants: fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole grains ...
Medical Xpress / Mistletoe extract shows no effect in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer
New research shows that palliative patients with pancreatic cancer neither live longer nor experience improved quality of life when taking mistletoe extract in addition to standard cancer treatment, compared to placebo. The ...
Medical Xpress / Central nervous system a key player in diabetes pain
Changes within the central nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord, can be a key reason for pain in people with diabetes, and future treatments could focus on restoring the brain's pain blocking systems, according ...
Medical Xpress / Brown fat could help protect against cardiovascular disease in obesity
People with obesity face a significantly increased risk of atherosclerosis, and consequently heart attack and stroke. This elevated risk is largely driven by chronic inflammation in the blood vessels, which is more common ...
Medical Xpress / Hip replacement beats exercise-only care for moderate-to-severe hip arthritis in yearlong trial
Total hip arthroplasty leads to the best outcomes in the treatment of moderate-to-severe hip osteoarthritis, according to a new study published in The Bone & Joint Journal by the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University ...
Phys.org / Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab
As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that his wife, Penelope, would ...
Phys.org / Astronomers explore the surface composition of a nearby super-Earth
Using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany) Ph.D. student Sebastian Zieba (Center ...
Medical Xpress / Online misinformation adding to Americans' skin cancer risk, survey finds
Misinformation is putting more than 16 million Americans at increased risk for skin cancer, a new American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) survey has concluded.
Tech Xplore / Amazon to ship stuff for any business, not just its own merchants
Amazon announced Monday it is opening up its massive shipping and delivery network to any business that wants to use it—not just the merchants who sell on Amazon's website.
Phys.org / Frozen-in gravity: A new way to understand the evolution of spacetime dynamics
The concept of spacetime, first described in Einstein's theory of general relativity, has since been widely studied by many physicists worldwide. Spacetime is described mathematically as a four-dimensional (4D) continuum ...
Phys.org / Babies may share adults' sense of beauty, and it appears to sharpen with age
Humans tend to be captured by things around them that they perceive as pleasurable and aesthetically pleasing. This "sense of beauty" has been widely studied extensively, mostly in experiments that involved adult participants.
