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Listening to icaros during ayahuasca ceremonies has a positive impact on men's addiction recovery

In Perú, music heals more than the soul. Traditional songs, known as icaros, are part of a treatment process for men rehabilitating from drug and alcohol addictions.

26 Dec 2022

Cutting-edge AI technologies transforming stroke care in England

Tens of thousands of stroke patients across the country are benefitting from quicker treatment and improved outcomes thanks to government investment in cutting edge artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose and determine the best treatment for patients who suffer a stroke.

26 Dec 2022

Group practice of Transcendental Meditation reduces stress in the United States, study shows

Every year during 2000 to 2006 there were tens of thousands of stress-related tragedies in the U.S. Official statistics from the FBI and Centers for Disease Control indicate that there were 15,440 murders, 93,438 rapes, and 86,348 child and adolescent deaths from accidents each year to give a few examples.

26 Dec 2022

An estimated 19 million US adults living with long-COVID

In a recent study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, a team of researchers examined the risk factors and prevalence and impact of long coronavirus disease (COVID) among a representative sample of adults in the United States (U.S.) and reported that close to 19 million U.S. adults suffer from long COVID.

26 Dec 2022

Scientists discover nearly 100,000 new types of viruses

The researchers succeeded in identifying new viruses, even specifying which organisms they are likely to attack. Their discovery is expected to help advance the development of repellents for bacteria, fungi and agricultural pests.

26 Dec 2022

When it comes to harvesting energy, some guts do it better than others

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that a portion of the Danish population has a composition of gut microbes that, on average, extracts more energy from food than the microbes in their fellow Danes' guts.

25 Dec 2022

Breached dolphin's brains show neuropathology similar to Alzheimer's

In a new European Journal of Neuroscience study, scientists studied the brains of Odontocetes (Toothed whales) to document the presence or absence of neuropathological hallmarks of AD.

25 Dec 2022

High coffee intake associated with cardiovascular disease mortality in hypertensive individuals

A study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association describes that excessive consumption of coffee can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease-related mortality in individuals with severe hypertension.

23 Dec 2022

Preoptic neurons play key role in regulating body temperature in mammals, study shows

A research group at Nagoya University in Japan has reported that a group of neurons, called EP3 neurons, in the preoptic area of the brain play a key role in regulating body temperature in mammals.

23 Dec 2022

Kessler Foundation scientist secures $4.5 million federal grant to advance spinal cord injury research

Amanda Botticello, PhD, MPH, from Kessler Foundation received a $4.5 million federal grant to advance spinal cord injury research, specifically to generate actionable information about how communities shape the disability experience.

23 Dec 2022

Mouse study unravels mechanisms by which the brain consolidates remote fear memories

A remote fear memory is a memory of traumatic events that occurred in the distant past - a few months to decades ago.

23 Dec 2022

Sleep duration declines during mid-life than in early and late adulthood

People sleep less in mid-adulthood than they do in early and late adulthood, finds a new study led by UCL, University of East Anglia and University of Lyon researchers.

23 Dec 2022

UTSW researchers identify molecular function of 87 inherited genetic variants linked to prostate cancer

UT Southwestern researchers have identified the molecular function of 87 inherited genetic variants that affect the risk of prostate cancer, and the majority appear to control the activity of genes located far away from the risk variants themselves.

23 Dec 2022

AI method can make time-sensitive, critical diagnosis easier and more accessible to pathologists

When a patient undergoes a surgical operation to remove a tumor or treat a disease, the course of surgery is often not predetermined.

23 Dec 2022

New technology achieves 99.7% purity in sorting target cells in real-time

Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new technology, called optical tweezer-assisted pool-screening and single-cell isolation (OPSI) system, which achieves 99.7% purity of sorting target cells, with all done in real-time.

23 Dec 2022

Simple Corsi-Rosenthal boxes can help reduce exposure to indoor air pollutants

A team of researchers from Brown University's School of Public Health, Brown's School of Engineering and Silent Spring Institute found that simple air filtration devices called Corsi-Rosenthal boxes are effective at reducing indoor air pollutants.

23 Dec 2022

Targeting Piezo2 could provide new avenue for treating chronic pain related to gastrointestinal disorders

Targeting a receptor responsible for our sense of touch and temperature, which researchers have now found to be present in our colon, could provide a new avenue for treating chronic pain associated with gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome.

23 Dec 2022

Japanese study reveals increase in incidence rates of renal replacement therapy attributed to nephrosclerosis

A new Japanese study reveals that the age-standardized incidence rates of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) due to chronic glomerulonephritis and diabetic nephropathy has decreased, while rates due to nephrosclerosis have increased considerably between 2006 and 2020.

23 Dec 2022

Men and women see different possibilities for action in the same domestic environment

Philosophers seeking to answer questions around inequality in household labor and the invisibility of women's work in the home have proposed a new theory – that men and women are trained by society to see different possibilities for action in the same domestic environment.

23 Dec 2022

Diagnostic technologies in Asia Pacific are key to progress toward health-related SDGs

We are at the halfway point from when we set our ambitious sustainable development goal 3 (SDG3) for good health and well-being by 2030.

23 Dec 2022

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Listening to icaros during ayahuasca ceremonies has a positive impact on men's addiction recovery

Cutting-edge AI technologies transforming stroke care in England

Group practice of Transcendental Meditation reduces stress in the United States, study shows

An estimated 19 million US adults living with long-COVID

Scientists discover nearly 100,000 new types of viruses

When it comes to harvesting energy, some guts do it better than others

Breached dolphin's brains show neuropathology similar to Alzheimer's

High coffee intake associated with cardiovascular disease mortality in hypertensive individuals

Preoptic neurons play key role in regulating body temperature in mammals, study shows

Kessler Foundation scientist secures $4.5 million federal grant to advance spinal cord injury research

Mouse study unravels mechanisms by which the brain consolidates remote fear memories

Sleep duration declines during mid-life than in early and late adulthood

UTSW researchers identify molecular function of 87 inherited genetic variants linked to prostate cancer

AI method can make time-sensitive, critical diagnosis easier and more accessible to pathologists

New technology achieves 99.7% purity in sorting target cells in real-time

Simple Corsi-Rosenthal boxes can help reduce exposure to indoor air pollutants

Targeting Piezo2 could provide new avenue for treating chronic pain related to gastrointestinal disorders

Japanese study reveals increase in incidence rates of renal replacement therapy attributed to nephrosclerosis

Men and women see different possibilities for action in the same domestic environment

Diagnostic technologies in Asia Pacific are key to progress toward health-related SDGs

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

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