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Category: 4. Health

  • Olympic anti-doping lab puts U.S. meat supply to the test

    Olympic anti-doping lab puts U.S. meat supply to the test

    Scientists at UCLA’s Olympic Analytical Laboratory turned their sophisticated analytical capabilities for testing athlete samples for performance-enhancing drugs to research examining the U.S. meat supply as part of a study led by Texas Tech. The study was designed to investigate concerns that residues of growth promoters used in meat production could potentially cause athletes to test positive.

    The laboratory, which typically searches for prohibited substances in urine and blood samples…

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  • CAR-T cell therapy for cancer causes ‘brain fog,’ study shows

    CAR-T cell therapy for cancer causes ‘brain fog,’ study shows

    After treatment with CAR-T cells — immune cells engineered to attack cancer — patients sometimes tell their doctors they feel like they have “brain fog,” or forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating.

    A new Stanford Medicine-led study shows that CAR-T cell therapy causes mild cognitive impairments, independent of other cancer treatments, and that this happens via the same cellular mechanism as cognitive impairment from two other causes: chemotherapy and respiratory infections such as flu…

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  • Evidence of mother-offspring attachment types in wild chimpanzees

    Evidence of mother-offspring attachment types in wild chimpanzees

    Have you ever wondered how your childhood relationship with your parents shaped the person you are today? Scientists have long known that early attachment to caregivers plays a crucial role in human development, but what about one of our closest relatives, the chimpanzee?

    By observing the behaviour of wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire, over four years, researchers discovered that young chimpanzees, like human children, develop different types of attachment to their…

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  • Drug to slow Alzheimer’s well tolerated outside of clinical trial setting

    Drug to slow Alzheimer’s well tolerated outside of clinical trial setting

    The Food and Drug Administration’s approval in 2023 of lecanemab — a novel Alzheimer’s therapy shown in clinical trials to modestly slow disease progression — was met with enthusiasm by many in the field as it represented the first medication of its kind able to influence the disease. But side effects — brain swelling and bleeding — emerged during clinical trials that have left some patients and physicians hesitant about the treatment.

    Medications can have somewhat different effects once…

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  • Addressing hearing loss may reduce isolation among the elderly

    Addressing hearing loss may reduce isolation among the elderly

    Providing hearing aids and advice on their use may preserve social connections that often wane as we age, a new study shows. Its authors say that this approach could help ease the loneliness epidemic that older Americans face.

    According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a quarter of seniors say they have little or no contact with others, and a third report feeling lonely. Experts have linked such isolation in part to hearing loss, which can interfere with…

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  • A chemical in plastics is tied to heart disease deaths

    A chemical in plastics is tied to heart disease deaths

    A common chemical in household plastics has been linked with heart disease deaths.

    In 2018, about 13.5 percent of the more than 2.6 million deaths from cardiovascular disease among people ages 55 to 64 globally could have been related to exposure to a type of chemical called a phthalate, researchers report April 28 in eBioMedicine.

    Phthalates are a group of chemicals found in shampoos, lotions, food packaging and medical supplies including blood bags. The chemicals are often…

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  • Extended reality boccia shows positive rehabilitation effects

    Extended reality boccia shows positive rehabilitation effects

    Boccia’s appeal and rising popularity comes from its showcase as a Paralympic sport that can be enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities. An Osaka Metropolitan University team has developed an extended reality version of the game as a rehabilitation program, showing how the game that requires accuracy and strategy can aid motor and cognitive skills.

    Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science Associate Professor Masataka Kataoka’s research group developed Boccia XR so that the program can…

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  • Different anesthetics, same result: Unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase

    Different anesthetics, same result: Unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase

    At the level of molecules and cells, ketamine and dexmedetomidine work very differently, but in the operating room they do the same exact thing: anesthetize the patient. By demonstrating how these distinct drugs achieve the same result, a new study in animals by neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT identifies a potential signature of unconsciousness that is readily measurable to improve anesthesiology care.

    What the two drugs have in common, the researchers…

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  • ChatGPT helps pinpoint precise locations of seizures in the brain, aiding neurosurgeons

    ChatGPT helps pinpoint precise locations of seizures in the brain, aiding neurosurgeons

    Epilepsy, one of the most common neurological disorders characterized by recurrent seizures, affects over 70 million people worldwide. In the United States, about 3.4 million people live with this challenging condition. Around one third of the epilepsy cases cannot be controlled by medications. For those patients, surgical resection of the epileptogenic zone (EZ), an area whose removal can lead to seizure freedom — a period of time when a person with epilepsy experiences no seizures — can…

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  • Your fingers wrinkle in the same pattern every time you’re in the water for too long

    Your fingers wrinkle in the same pattern every time you’re in the water for too long

    Do your wrinkles always form in the same pattern every time you’re in the water for too long? According to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York, the answer is yes.

    A couple of years ago, Binghamton University Associate Professor Guy German published research about why human skin wrinkles when you stay in the water too long. Received wisdom held that the water swelled your skin and made your fingers wrinkly, but little to no research had been done to prove…

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