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  • Dogs could help predict valley fever spread in humans

    Dogs could help predict valley fever spread in humans

    Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis, is caused by a fungus that thrives in moist soils and becomes airborne during drought. Its spores are easily inhaled, leading to infection. Climate change is creating the perfect conditions for it in the Western United States, with increasing heavy rains followed by prolonged drought. A new study by University of California, Davis, researchers shows that dogs, who are also susceptible to the disease, can help us understand its spread.

    “Dogs are sentinels…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • A shadowy market for weight-loss drugs has emerged online

    A shadowy market for weight-loss drugs has emerged online

    In late 2022, pharmacist Joseph Lambson got an unusual call from a poison control specialist.

    He said, “Hey Joe, I’m getting these weird calls about semaglutide.” According to the specialist’s calculations, people were giving themselves 10 times the correct dose. But that didn’t make sense. The drug is the key ingredient in the blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss medications Ozempic and Wegovy. Both come in prefilled injector pens, which typically take the guesswork…

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    News Source: www.sciencenews.org

  • Memory manipulation is the stuff of sci-fi. Someday it could be real

    Memory manipulation is the stuff of sci-fi. Someday it could be real

    In the world of Harry Potter, one’s memory can be manipulated with the flick of a wand. Albus Dumbledore reels wispy memories out of his head and puts them in a Pensieve. If he later dunks his head in that magical basin, he can see his past experiences with lifelike clarity. Hermione Granger, meanwhile, uses the spell “Obliviate” to remove herself from her parents’ memories to protect them from the wizarding world.

    In real life, memories are not storable liquids or files…

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    News Source: www.sciencenews.org

  • Fill-in-the-blank training primes AI to interpret health data from smartwatches and fitness trackers

    Fill-in-the-blank training primes AI to interpret health data from smartwatches and fitness trackers

    The human body constantly generates a variety of signals that can be measured from outside the body with wearable devices. These bio-signals – ranging from heart rate to sleep state and blood oxygen levels – can indicate whether someone is having mood swings or can be used to diagnose a variety of body or brain disorders.

    It can be relatively cheap to gather a lot of bio-signal data. Researchers can organize a study and ask participants to use a wearable device akin to a smartwatch…

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    News Source: theconversation.com

  • Certain nasal bacteria may boost the risk for COVID-19 infection, study finds

    Certain nasal bacteria may boost the risk for COVID-19 infection, study finds

    A new study from researchers at the George Washington University has found that certain bacteria living in the nose may influence how likely someone is to get a COVID-19 infection. Published in EBioMedicine, the research reveals that certain types of nasal bacteria can affect the levels of key proteins the virus needs to enter human cells, offering new insight into why some people are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than others.

    “We’ve known that the virus SARS-CoV-2 enters the body through the…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • FDA clears IND for clinical trial testing switchable CAR-T therapy in patients with autoimmune diseases, without chemotherapy

    FDA clears IND for clinical trial testing switchable CAR-T therapy in patients with autoimmune diseases, without chemotherapy

    Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines, the drug discovery division of Scripps Research, announced today that the FDA has cleared their investigational new drug (IND) application to study switchable chimeric antigen receptor T cell (sCAR-T) therapy (CLBR001 + SWI019) in patients with autoimmune conditions. Patient recruitment for the phase 1 trial will begin soon (NCT06913608). The phase 1 clinical trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of CLBR001 + SWI019 in patients with…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Europe’s population is adapting better to cold than to heat

    Europe’s population is adapting better to cold than to heat

    A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation, has shown that Europe has adapted better to low temperatures than to high temperatures over the last two decades. The research, carried out in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) and published in The Lancet Planetary Health, shows that there has been a significant decrease in cold-related mortality risk in recent years compared to the first decade of…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Congress Ought To Dismantle The Healthcare Deep State

    Congress Ought To Dismantle The Healthcare Deep State

    One senior Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer is reportedly trying to shield the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) from mass layoffs and budget cuts, according to a recent Politico expose. That’s a shame. If there’s any agency in…

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    News Source: www.forbes.com

  • Father with Alzheimer’s? You may be more at risk of brain changes

    Father with Alzheimer’s? You may be more at risk of brain changes

    While some studies have suggested that having a mother with Alzheimer’s disease may put you more at risk of developing the disease, a new study finds that having a father with the disease may be tied to a greater spread of the tau protein in the brain that is a sign of the disease, according to a study published on April 9, 2025, online in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study does not prove that having a father with Alzheimer’s results in these…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Eight or more drinks per week linked to signs of injury in the brain

    Eight or more drinks per week linked to signs of injury in the brain

    Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week have an increased risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosclerosis, signs of brain injury that are associated with memory and thinking problems, according to a study published on April 9, 2025, online in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study does not prove that heavy drinking causes brain injury; it only shows an association.

    Hyaline arteriolosclerosis is a condition that causes…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com