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Medical Xpress / Wearable system advances neonatal health monitoring in Ethiopia
A new, soft, all-in-one, wearable system has been designed for continuous wireless monitoring of neonatal health in low-resource settings. Developed by Georgia Tech researchers using advanced packaging technologies, the system ...
Medical Xpress / Family history of cardiometabolic disease linked to faster heart damage in youth
A new study of more than 1,500 British adolescents is the first in the world to assess the association between familial cardiometabolic diseases and the offspring's risk of premature heart damage by early adulthood. The study ...
Medical Xpress / Preventive care protocol lowers risk of kidney injury after major surgery
The kidneys are among the most important organs of the human body. Every day they filter around 1,500 liters of blood, regulate electrolyte and fluid balance, control blood pressure and play a central role in detoxifying ...
Medical Xpress / Individual behavior matters more than we think in spreading epidemics
Even a small proportion of citizens who do not follow health measures can amplify the spread of an epidemic and make it expand faster in large cities.
Medical Xpress / A mitochondrial protein may hold the secret to longevity
As life expectancy continues to climb globally, the focus of many people has moved from longevity alone to living in good health. This has drawn attention to the need to extend "healthspan," the period during which an individual ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds increase in risk of binge drinking among 12th-graders who use two or more cannabis products
The cannabis marketplace continues to grow and evolve, offering consumers new ways to use cannabis—and new ways to combine it with other substances, such as alcohol. That practice can be particularly detrimental to adolescents, ...
Medical Xpress / How can we better protect a transplanted kidney? AI-based antibody analytics point the way
When we think of kidney transplantation, we usually focus on surgery, immunosuppressive drugs, and early post-operative tests. Much less attention is paid to what happens months or years later, when a silent damaging process ...
Phys.org / Rethinking climate migration to include a third framework of 'tethered resilience'
As rising temperatures, intensifying storms, increased flooding, and land degradation impact communities, residents in vulnerable areas are navigating difficult questions: Do they stay and adapt, or should they leave? The ...
Medical Xpress / Specialized gut cells linked to celiac disease reveal new immune role
The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that plays a key role in this protection is the microfold cell (M cell). These cells detect bacteria ...
Medical Xpress / Social inequities in atrial fibrillation survival remain unchanged over 20 years, finds study
Atrial fibrillation, also known as AF or Afib, is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases. In fact, one in three individuals can expect to be diagnosed with the condition, which increases the risk of serious complications ...
Medical Xpress / How errors in the cytoskeleton lead to a smaller brain
Why do some children develop a brain that is too small (microcephaly)? An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover Medical School (MHH), and ...
Phys.org / New book examines how educational reforms have attempted to fix past problems instead of inventing the future
For decades, the consensus has been that American education is not good enough, students are falling behind and society needs to do something to improve schools. But countless efforts at reform and millions in investments ...