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Better funding for evidence-based treatments will improve health of chronic pain sufferers

Chronic pain affects one in five Australians, rising to one in three for those aged over 65. Its impact on individuals, families and the wider community can’t be overestimated.

22 Jul 2019

Wild birds help shed light on stress resilience in humans

Stress is a common everyday experience, particularly in the world today. A new study might open the doors for the prevention and treatment of stress disorders, thanks to wild songbirds.

21 Jul 2019

Study shows link between 2016 election and increase in preterm births among U.S. Latinas

A significant jump in preterm births to Latina mothers living in the U.S. occurred in the nine months following the November 8, 2016 election of President Donald Trump, according to a study led by a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

21 Jul 2019

Hearing loss linked to mental, physical, and social illnesses in older people

Hearing loss is the world's fourth-leading cause of years lived with disability. The condition may worsen an array of mental, physical, and social complications. As over 90% of hearing loss is age-related, its burden is notably growing amid aging populations.

21 Jul 2019

Hearing loss in older people linked to outdoor activity restriction, anxiety, memory loss

Hearing loss is the world's fourth-leading cause of years lived with disability. The condition may worsen an array of mental, physical, and social complications.

19 Jul 2019

Employers urged to find new ways to address workers’ mental health

In the middle of a work project at a global corporate consulting firm, Katherine Switz was gripped with a debilitating bout of anxiety. Her body froze, her heart raced, her chest tightened, and her mind went blank, which made it nearly impossible for her to concentrate on a computer screen and do her work.

19 Jul 2019

Group of genes linked to longer lifespan in fruit flies discovered

Alexey Moskalev, Ph.D., Head of the Laboratory of Geroprotective and Radioprotective technologies, and co-authors from the Institute of biology of Komi Science Center of RAS, the Engelgard's Institute of molecular biology of RAS and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology published a scientific article titled "Transcriptome Analysis of Long-lived Drosophila melanogaster E(z) Mutants Sheds Light on the Molecular Mechanisms of Longevity" in Nature Scientific Reports - the leading international multidisciplinary weekly journal.

19 Jul 2019

New research links “broken heart syndrome” to cancer

Researchers have discovered a new link between broken-heart syndrome, or takotsubo syndrome, and the second leading cause of death in the world: cancer.

18 Jul 2019

‘Climate grief’: Fears about the planet’s future weigh on Americans’ mental health

Therapist Andrew Bryant says the landmark United Nations climate report last October brought a new mental health concern to his patients.

18 Jul 2019

Novel insight into microRNA function can be crucial for the development of gene therapy

Scientists at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Oxford have shown that small RNA molecules occurring naturally in cells, i.e. microRNAs, are also abundant in cell nuclei.

18 Jul 2019

New research could help design algae that produces fuels and cleanup chemicals

It's a case of grand larceny that could lead to new fuels and cleanup chemicals. Ten species of red algae stole about 1 percent of their genes from bacteria to cope with toxic metals and salt stress in hot springs, according to a study in the journal eLife.

18 Jul 2019

'Dual burden' of prematurity and serious maternal complications occurs in one of 270 births

A quarter of women who have serious maternal complications during childbirth also have premature births, posing a "dual burden" on families, finds research from NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, the University of California, San Francisco California Preterm Birth Initiative, and Stanford University.

17 Jul 2019

UTHealth researchers investigate how to reduce stress-driven alcohol use

Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) are investigating if a medication used to regulate blood sugar can alter motivation to use alcohol by targeting the brain's stress response system.

17 Jul 2019

Oxidative stress could play key role in the spreading of aberrant proteins in Parkinson's disease

Oxidative stress could be a driving force in the spreading of aberrant proteins involved in Parkinson's disease.

17 Jul 2019

Marijuana use may not make parents more relaxed

Sorry, marijuana moms and dads: Using pot may not make you a more relaxed parent, at least when it comes to how you discipline your children.

17 Jul 2019

Adolescent girls who self-injure overestimate negative feedback in social media

Adolescent girls who self-injure feel that they receive more negative feedback than they actually receive, and are more sensitive to "thumbs down" responses, compared to other adolescent girls.

17 Jul 2019

Molecular switches may control lifespan and healthspan separately, genetic discovery suggests

Aging research indicates that better healthspan--the quality of life as we age--may be more important than lifespan.

17 Jul 2019

Research opens possibility of developing single-dose gene therapy for inherited arrhythmias

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital report creating the first human tissue model of an inherited heart arrhythmia, replicating two patients' abnormal heart rhythms in a dish, and then suppressing the arrhythmia with gene therapy in a mouse model.

17 Jul 2019

Antioxidant precursor molecule could improve dopamine levels in Parkinson's patients

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is a naturally occurring molecule that replenishes one of the body's antioxidants and now shows potential benefit as part of a standard course of treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease, according to a study published in the journal, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.

16 Jul 2019

Researchers find mechanism behind susceptibility to viral infections

A team of researchers from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medicine Centre's Viral Research and Experimental Medicine Centre found that immune cells undergoing stress and an altered metabolism are the reasons why some individuals become sick from viral infections while others do not, when exposed to the same virus.

16 Jul 2019

Stress News and Research

Better funding for evidence-based treatments will improve health of chronic pain sufferers

Wild birds help shed light on stress resilience in humans

Study shows link between 2016 election and increase in preterm births among U.S. Latinas

Hearing loss linked to mental, physical, and social illnesses in older people

Hearing loss in older people linked to outdoor activity restriction, anxiety, memory loss

Employers urged to find new ways to address workers’ mental health

Group of genes linked to longer lifespan in fruit flies discovered

New research links “broken heart syndrome” to cancer

‘Climate grief’: Fears about the planet’s future weigh on Americans’ mental health

Novel insight into microRNA function can be crucial for the development of gene therapy

New research could help design algae that produces fuels and cleanup chemicals

'Dual burden' of prematurity and serious maternal complications occurs in one of 270 births

UTHealth researchers investigate how to reduce stress-driven alcohol use

Oxidative stress could play key role in the spreading of aberrant proteins in Parkinson's disease

Marijuana use may not make parents more relaxed

Adolescent girls who self-injure overestimate negative feedback in social media

Molecular switches may control lifespan and healthspan separately, genetic discovery suggests

Research opens possibility of developing single-dose gene therapy for inherited arrhythmias

Antioxidant precursor molecule could improve dopamine levels in Parkinson's patients

Researchers find mechanism behind susceptibility to viral infections

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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