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Trash incinerators disproportionately harm Black and Hispanic people

When leaders of Florida's most populous county met in September to pick a site for what could become the nation's largest trash incinerator, so many people went to the government center to protest that overflow seating spilled into the building's atrium.

23 Dec 2024

‘Waiting list to nowhere’: Homelessness surveys trap Black men on the streets

Maurice Clark huddled in his tent along dusty railroad tracks as two homeless-outreach workers began asking him questions to determine whether he would qualify for free or subsidized housing.

23 Dec 2024

Caseworkers coax homeless people out of Las Vegas’ tunnels for treatment

Case manager Bryon Johnson flashed a light into a dark tunnel beneath the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip on a recent fall afternoon. He stepped into an opening in a concrete ditch littered with trash and discarded clothing to search an underground world for his homeless clients.

23 Dec 2024

New Alzheimer's guidelines provide comprehensive framework for diagnosis

We have entered a new era of improved and emerging biologically-based diagnostic biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-related neurodegenerative disorders (ADRD) that are rapidly impacting evaluation and care paradigms in every clinical setting: primary care, specialty care and dementia subspecialty care.

23 Dec 2024

Study unveils NAD's link to aging and disease development

UiB researchers are behind a new discovery that tells us how associated neurodegenerative diseases might develop.

23 Dec 2024

Coffee and tea consumption linked with lower risk of head and neck cancer

In a recent analysis of data from more than a dozen studies, coffee and tea consumption was linked with lower risks of developing head and neck cancer, including cancers of the mouth and throat.

23 Dec 2024

New eye drop treatment offers hope for dry AMD patients

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss in individuals over 65, characterized by abnormal changes in the macular, resulting in reduced vision and distorted objects.

23 Dec 2024

Groundbreaking technology converts cancer cells into normal cells

Despite the development of numerous cancer treatment technologies, the common goal of current cancer therapies is to eliminate cancer cells.

23 Dec 2024

Study reveals potential Alzheimer’s risk in women using hormone replacement therapy

Hormone Replacement Therapy involves giving women synthetic oestrogen to replace depleting hormone levels and thus alleviate menopausal symptoms.

23 Dec 2024

New formula predicts oxygen delivery ability of red blood cells

SCIENTISTS have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This test could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well as blood banking.

22 Dec 2024

Dextromethorphan found to have potential in treating lung fibrosis

A common over-the-counter ingredient in many cough syrups may have a greater purpose for people suffering from lung fibrosis that is related to any number of serious health conditions.

22 Dec 2024

Simple device could be a gamechanger for asthma patients

A device costing just pennies, based on an idea by a University of Manchester Professor to help his son use an inhaler, could be a gamechanger for asthma patients.

22 Dec 2024

The power of the mind in weight loss and long-term success

2024 can easily be dubbed the year of Ozempic, but the negative effects of the now Holywood famous drug can heavily outweigh the positives in the long run. Really, what many of us need is the power of our mind to lose weight and keep it off for good.

22 Dec 2024

Spatial aging clocks reveal how T cells and neural stem cells shape brain aging

Researchers developed spatial aging clocks to map brain cell aging, revealing how T cells accelerate aging and NSCs rejuvenate neighboring cells, offering new insights into brain health and interventions.

22 Dec 2024

Insulin degradation uncovered as a new driver of resistance

Researchers reveal insulin resistance may be driven by insulin degradation during transit in the bloodstream, challenging the belief that cell defects are the primary cause.

22 Dec 2024

Generating mutated proteins through adversarial attacks on the AlphaFold2 model

Announcing a new publication for Acta Materia Medica journal. Proteins are essential macromolecules that perform functions according to their conformational dynamics.

21 Dec 2024

Advancing quality integrated health services through relational community engagement

A new report, entitled "Relationality in community engagement: its role in humanizing healthcare and achieving quality integrated health Services" has been developed in collaboration with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) and launched at the Seventh edition of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) taking place in Doha on 13–14 November 2024.

21 Dec 2024

New skin-like material could revolutionize infection testing

In the holiday movie The Grinch, makeup artists are reported to have spent several hours each day encasing Jim Carrey's face with prosthetics to create the iconic grumpy, green-furred creature.

20 Dec 2024

New research project aims to uncover molecular factors behind malaria’s deadliest strain

Nearly half the world's population lives in regions where malaria is endemic, with the parasite Plasmodium falciparum accounting for approximately 95% of malaria-related deaths globally.

20 Dec 2024

Solving a decades-long puzzle in leishmaniasis drug development

A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that afflicts about 1 million people and kills about 30,000 people around the world every year.

20 Dec 2024