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The hidden impact of hormones on women's gum health and overall wellbeing

Did you know that gum health reveals more about your wellbeing that you might think? Gum disease isn't just about your teeth - it's an infection and inflammation that can adversely affect your entire body.

7 Mar 2025

Understanding the mechanisms of postoperative cognitive dysfunction in chronic kidney disease patients

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) often encounter cardiovascular complications, most commonly coronary heart disease.

7 Mar 2025

Exosome-mediated siRNA delivery targets antibiotic resistance in bacteria

Multidrug-resistant bacteria pose a major threat to human health. Manipulation of bacterial genes at the transcriptional level is a potential strategy to fight antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections by silencing their resistance genes.

7 Mar 2025

Insilico Medicine's AI-driven drug Rentosertib receives official generic name

Insilico Medicine("Insilico"), a clinical stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven biotechnology company, recently announced that its breakthrough drug candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) – Rentosertib (formerly known as ISM001-055) – has been granted an official generic name by the United States Adopted Names (USAN) Council.

7 Mar 2025

Trial shows PACE food labeling reduces sugary food purchases in schools

A trial at English secondary schools of alternative food labeling - which displayed the number of minutes of physical activity needed to burn off calories - reduced the purchase of sugary foods by a small amount, new research has found.

7 Mar 2025

Researchers uncover how antibodies protect against Strep A infections

Researchers have discovered how antibodies help to protect against contagious bacterial infections caused by Strep A, including strep throat.

7 Mar 2025

Disabled women in the UK face significant maternity inequalities

Disabled women in the UK, who make up 20% of women of reproductive age, face significant inequalities in maternal and neonatal outcomes according to a new report.

7 Mar 2025

New algorithm enhances prediction of disordered protein structures

The intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) do not attain a stable secondary or tertiary structure and rapidly change their conformation, making structure prediction particularly challenging.

7 Mar 2025

UCSF researchers enable paralyzed man to control robotic arm with brain signals

Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm through a device that relays signals from his brain to a computer.

7 Mar 2025

Marty Makary, often wrong as pandemic critic, is poised to lead the FDA he railed against

Panelists at a covid conference last fall were asked to voice their regrets — policies they had supported during the pandemic but had come to see as misguided. Covid contact tracing, one said. Closing schools, another said. Vaccine mandates, a third said.

7 Mar 2025

Medicaid advocates say critics use loaded terms to gain edge in Congressional debate

In Washington's debate over enacting steep funding cuts to Medicaid, words are a central battleground.

7 Mar 2025

Music-based therapy may benefit people living with dementia

A new Cochrane review has found evidence that music-based therapy may benefit people living with dementia, particularly by improving symptoms of depression.

7 Mar 2025

Study questions effectiveness of physician associates in primary care and anesthetic roles

Researchers say they can find no convincing evidence that physician associates add value in UK primary care or that anesthetic associates add value in anesthetics, and some evidence suggested that they do not.

7 Mar 2025

Online reaction time tests provide insights into women's cognitive health

Online tests of women's reaction times offer insights into cognitive function and could help fill data gaps on early cognitive problems, potentially shedding light on dementia development later in life, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL and other universities.

7 Mar 2025

NIH plans to centralize peer review process for grants

Today the National Institutes of Health is announcing plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency's Center for Scientific Review (CSR).

7 Mar 2025

Study highlights the long-term impact of COVID-19 pandemic on student performance

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student performance is well known, but four years after the pandemic, scores in college classes are not returning to their pre-pandemic levels. A University of Mississippi study might point to an answer.

7 Mar 2025

New clinical study published: Astaxanthin reduces digital eye strain in children

A new study shows that astaxanthin supplementation can improve both acute and chronic digital eye strain in children.

7 Mar 2025

AI-enhanced doctors: How new technology is transforming patient care, cutting errors, and freeing up NHS

The NHS and UK doctors are set to benefit from ground-breaking artificial intelligence technology designed to transform the way doctors interact with patients, reducing medical errors, cutting administrative burdens, and making thousands of additional appointments available.

7 Mar 2025

COVID-19 hospitalization linked to long-term organ damage and mortality

Researchers determine the risk of long-term health complications following recovery from COVID-19.

7 Mar 2025

Swapping butter with plant-based oils in daily diet could lead to significant health benefits

People who consume plant-based oil instead of butter may experience beneficial health effects and even have a lower risk of premature death, according to a new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

7 Mar 2025

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The hidden impact of hormones on women's gum health and overall wellbeing

Understanding the mechanisms of postoperative cognitive dysfunction in chronic kidney disease patients

Exosome-mediated siRNA delivery targets antibiotic resistance in bacteria

Insilico Medicine's AI-driven drug Rentosertib receives official generic name

Trial shows PACE food labeling reduces sugary food purchases in schools

Researchers uncover how antibodies protect against Strep A infections

Disabled women in the UK face significant maternity inequalities

New algorithm enhances prediction of disordered protein structures

UCSF researchers enable paralyzed man to control robotic arm with brain signals

Marty Makary, often wrong as pandemic critic, is poised to lead the FDA he railed against

Medicaid advocates say critics use loaded terms to gain edge in Congressional debate

Music-based therapy may benefit people living with dementia

Study questions effectiveness of physician associates in primary care and anesthetic roles

Online reaction time tests provide insights into women's cognitive health

NIH plans to centralize peer review process for grants

Study highlights the long-term impact of COVID-19 pandemic on student performance

New clinical study published: Astaxanthin reduces digital eye strain in children

AI-enhanced doctors: How new technology is transforming patient care, cutting errors, and freeing up NHS

COVID-19 hospitalization linked to long-term organ damage and mortality

Swapping butter with plant-based oils in daily diet could lead to significant health benefits

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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