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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 ...

23 hours ago
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 ...

14 hours ago
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 ...

23 hours ago
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 ...

23 hours ago
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.

22 hours ago
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.

20 hours ago
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 ...

23 hours ago
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.

23 hours ago
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 ...

20 hours ago
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 ...

15 hours ago
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.

22 hours ago
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.

15 hours ago