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Study explores how the brain creates a cohesive sense of body position and movement

How does your brain know the position and movement of your different body parts? The sense is known as proprioception, and it is something like a "sixth sense", allowing us to move freely without constantly watching our limbs.

21 Mar 2024

Researchers discover the lungs communicate directly with the brain to induce sickness symptoms

University of Calgary researchers have discovered the lungs communicate directly with the brain when there is an infection.

21 Mar 2024

Smoking linked to increased abdominal fat

The worry of gaining weight is a common excuse for smokers not to quit.

21 Mar 2024

Weill Cornell Medicine receives $1.65 million grant for groundbreaking RNA research

A team led by Dr. Samie Jaffrey, the Greenberg-Starr Professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a three-year, $1.65 million grant for RNA research under a biotechnology-development program run by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

21 Mar 2024

Researchers identify mechanism behind COVID-19 related brain fog

Among the many confounding symptoms in patients recovering from a COVID-19 infection are memory loss and difficulty learning.

21 Mar 2024

Ideal cardiovascular health in young adults slashes risk of heart, stroke, and kidney disease

An analysis of health data for nearly 4 million young adults in Korea found that those who had ideal cardiovascular health had about a 65% lower risk of developing heart disease, stroke or kidney disease later in life compared to people with low heart health scores, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention│Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Scientific Sessions 2024, March 18- 21, in Chicago.

21 Mar 2024

Study highlights global fertility decline and its implications for the future

The world is approaching a low-fertility future. Although by 2100 more than 97% of countries and territories will have fertility rates below what is necessary to sustain population size over time, comparatively high fertility rates in numerous low-income countries, predominantly in western and eastern sub-Saharan Africa, will continue to drive population increases in these locations throughout the century.

21 Mar 2024

US and UK experience high levels of working-age mortality compared to high-income countries

A new study by researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) and Princeton University reveals that US working-age adults are dying at higher rates than their peers in high-income countries; the UK is also falling behind.

21 Mar 2024

Low-dose boost of radiotherapy keeps young breast cancer patients recurrence-free

The vast majority of young patients given a low-dose boost of radiotherapy to the site where their breast cancer was removed in addition to whole breast radiotherapy, remained free of local recurrence after ten years, according to results of the 'Young boost trial' presented at the 14th European Breast Cancer Conference.

21 Mar 2024

Innovative study on asthma inflammation funded by NIH/NIAID grant

In a significant stride for respiratory medicine, Lundquist Institute (TLI) investigator Nicholas Jendzjowsky, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Institute of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID).

21 Mar 2024

Prenatal topiramate exposure not associated with increased autism risk among children

Topiramate—an antiseizure medication prescribed to treat epilepsy as well as migraines and bipolar disorder—does not appear to increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among children exposed to it prenatally, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

21 Mar 2024

Study challenges previously held views on brain preservation in archaeology

Soft tissue preservation in the geological record is relatively rare, and, except where deliberate intervention halts the process of decay (like embalming or freezing), the survival of entire organs is particularly unusual.

21 Mar 2024

Social isolation may accelerate biological aging and raise mortality risk

A new study from Mayo Clinic finds that socially isolated people are more likely to show signs of being biologically older than their age and more likely to die from a variety of causes.

21 Mar 2024

Combined scanning technique could refine treatment for early-stage breast cancer patients

Using a combined scanning technique on patients with early-stage breast cancer improved treatment in almost three out of ten cases in a trial presented at the 14th European Breast Cancer Conference today.

21 Mar 2024

Researchers develop AI tool to predict side effects of treatment in breast cancer patients

A team of international researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict which breast cancer patients may be at risk of side effects after surgery and radiotherapy.

21 Mar 2024

New AI system can be used to reliably detect cardiac amyloidosis

Cardiac amyloidosis is a serious disease in which abnormal proteins (amyloids) accumulate in the heart muscle and impair heart function.

21 Mar 2024

Cooking rice with high arsenic water puts millions at health risk

The use of water contaminated with higher than recommended levels of arsenic could pose a serious health risk to millions, a new study from the University of Sheffield has found.

21 Mar 2024

Inhibiting neurons involved in the body's stress response may reduce alcohol use

Neuroscientists at Scripps Research have found that inhibiting neurons involved in the body's stress response may reduce alcohol consumption in people who have both post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) - even if they still experience trauma-related anxiety.

21 Mar 2024

Scientists shed light on key immune regulators involved in Alzheimer’s and other disorders of lipid-rich tissues

Using novel genetic and genomic tools, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have shed light on the role of immune cells called macrophages in lipid-rich tissues like the brain, advancing our understanding of Alzheimer's and other diseases.

21 Mar 2024

Concomitant pharmacotherapy overcomes immunotherapy challenges in aggressive blood cancer

Researchers at the University of Zurich and the University Hospital Zurich have discovered that a specific mutation in the cancer cells of an aggressive type of blood cancer can prevent novel immunotherapies such as CAR T-cell therapy from working.

21 Mar 2024

Medical Research News

Study explores how the brain creates a cohesive sense of body position and movement

Researchers discover the lungs communicate directly with the brain to induce sickness symptoms

Smoking linked to increased abdominal fat

Weill Cornell Medicine receives $1.65 million grant for groundbreaking RNA research

Researchers identify mechanism behind COVID-19 related brain fog

Ideal cardiovascular health in young adults slashes risk of heart, stroke, and kidney disease

Study highlights global fertility decline and its implications for the future

US and UK experience high levels of working-age mortality compared to high-income countries

Low-dose boost of radiotherapy keeps young breast cancer patients recurrence-free

Innovative study on asthma inflammation funded by NIH/NIAID grant

Prenatal topiramate exposure not associated with increased autism risk among children

Study challenges previously held views on brain preservation in archaeology

Social isolation may accelerate biological aging and raise mortality risk

Combined scanning technique could refine treatment for early-stage breast cancer patients

Researchers develop AI tool to predict side effects of treatment in breast cancer patients

New AI system can be used to reliably detect cardiac amyloidosis

Cooking rice with high arsenic water puts millions at health risk

Inhibiting neurons involved in the body's stress response may reduce alcohol use

Scientists shed light on key immune regulators involved in Alzheimer’s and other disorders of lipid-rich tissues

Concomitant pharmacotherapy overcomes immunotherapy challenges in aggressive blood cancer

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