Category: 4. Health

  • Genetic mutation linked to iron deficiency in Crohn’s disease patients

    Genetic mutation linked to iron deficiency in Crohn’s disease patients

    High magnification micrograph of Crohn’s disease. Biopsy of esophagus. H&E stain. Credit: Nephron/Wikipedia

    A study led by biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine shows how a genetic mutation associated with Crohn’s disease can worsen iron deficiency and anemia—one of the most common complications experienced by patients with inflammatory bowel…

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  • Knowledge-based TikTok videos help ease fears about gynecological checkups

    Knowledge-based TikTok videos help ease fears about gynecological checkups

    Ciera Kirkpatrick of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln recently publishied a study showing knowledge-based messages are best when health professionals use short-form videos to promote cervical cancer screening. Credit: Liz McCue, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    No longer just pet videos and pranks, short-form videos are utilized more and more to share health information. Doctors and researchers…

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  • Cannabis use among seniors surges 46% in two years—Study reveals

    Cannabis use among seniors surges 46% in two years—Study reveals

    Marijuana use among older adults in the US has reached a new high, with 7 percent of adults aged 65 and over who report using it in the past month, according to an analysis led by researchers with the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research (CDUHR) at the NYU School of Global Public Health.

    Their findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, also show that the profile of those who use cannabis has changed in recent years, with pronounced increases in use by older adults who are…

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  • The Hidden DNA Repair System That Could Transform Cancer Treatment

    The Hidden DNA Repair System That Could Transform Cancer Treatment

    When DNA breaks inside the cell, it can spell disaster, especially if the damage occurs in areas of the genome that are difficult to repair. Now, scientists Irene Chiolo and Chiara Merigliano at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences have discovered that a protein called Nup98, long known for helping traffic molecules in and out of the cell’s nucleus, plays another surprising role: guiding the cell’s most delicate repairs and reducing the risk of genetic mistakes that can…

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  • Doctors And Patients Hurt By ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

    Doctors And Patients Hurt By ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

    The American Medical Association says legislation wending its way through the…

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  • Why your diet might be making you sad—Especially if you’re a man

    Why your diet might be making you sad—Especially if you’re a man

    Following a low calorie diet is linked to a heightened risk of depressive symptoms, finds research published in the open access journal, BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health.

    Men and those who are overweight may be especially vulnerable to the effects of restrictive eating, the findings suggest.

    A ‘healthy’ diet rich in minimally processed foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, lean proteins and fish, is generally associated with a lower risk of depression, while an…

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  • Largest-ever map of the universe reveals 10x more early galaxies than expected

    Largest-ever map of the universe reveals 10x more early galaxies than expected

    In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built with data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), consists of all the imaging and a catalog of nearly 800,000 galaxies spanning nearly all of cosmic time. And it’s been challenging existing notions of the infant universe.

    “Our goal was to construct this deep field of space on a physical…

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  • Clinical trial finds diabetes pill reduces liver scarring

    Clinical trial finds diabetes pill reduces liver scarring

    The sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor drug dapagliflozin, widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, also shows improvements for patients with progressive liver disease, finds a clinical trial from China published on June 4 by The BMJ.

    The results show that treatment with dapagliflozin improved metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) — a condition where excess fat accumulates in the liver, leading to inflammation — and liver fibrosis (a build up of scar tissue)…

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  • This AI Model Could Make It Faster To Find New Medicines

    This AI Model Could Make It Faster To Find New Medicines

    In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a new AI model that could speed up drug discovery, how the Trump/Musk blowup could impact NASA, a new class of electronics and more. You can sign up to get The Prototype in your inbox here.

    The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in part to Deepmind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for the development of AlphaFold–an AI model that predicts the structure of proteins, the complex chemicals essential to making our bodies…

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  • A cup of chickpeas a day lowers cholesterol

    A cup of chickpeas a day lowers cholesterol

    Adding a cup of chickpeas or black beans to people’s daily diets could improve health by lowering cholesterol and inflammation, a new study suggests.

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