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Category: 4. Health

  • When it comes to obesity-related cancers, where you shop for food matters

    When it comes to obesity-related cancers, where you shop for food matters

    besity is at epidemic proportions in the United States where more than 40% of adults are obese and more than 70% are overweight. One common policy intervention to tackle this urgent issue is to try to improve diet quality by increasing local grocery stores that offer healthy options. However, this is not a silver bullet, but researchers are not sure why.

    A team of researchers developed a novel tool to help understand consumer behavior at the county level, and to study the relationship…

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  • Older adults experience similar or even less muscle damage than young adults after exercise

    Older adults experience similar or even less muscle damage than young adults after exercise

    Older adults experience less muscle soreness following exercise according to research which overturns the widespread belief that ageing muscles are less resilient.

    The study entitled “Advancing age is not associated with greater exercise-induced muscle damage” is published in the Journal of Ageing and Physical Activity (JAPA).

    Younger adults were categorised as between 18 to 25 and older adults more than 35 years old.

    The research co-authored by Lancaster University provides a comprehensive…

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  • Researchers use ‘smart’ bomb therapy to destroy breast cancer

    Researchers use ‘smart’ bomb therapy to destroy breast cancer

    A wife and husband professor team at Michigan State University are collaborating with researchers at the University of California, Riverside to create a new light-activated “smart” bomb to treat aggressive breast cancer.

    Sophia Lunt, an MSU professor in biochemistry and molecular biology in the College of Natural Science, and Richard Lunt, an MSU professor and Johansen-Crosby Endowed Professor in Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering, along with Vincent Lavallo, a professor of…

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  • Miso made in space tastes nuttier

    Miso made in space tastes nuttier

    Miso is a traditional Japanese condiment made by fermenting cooked soybeans and salt. In a study publishing April 2 in the Cell Press journal iScience, researchers successfully made miso on the International Space Station (ISS). They found that the miso smelled and tasted similar to miso fermented on Earth — just with a slightly nuttier, more roasted flavor. The team hopes this research will help broaden the culinary options available to astronauts, improving the quality of life for…

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  • Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk

    Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk

    An unusual public health policy in Wales may have produced the strongest evidence yet that a vaccine can reduce the risk of dementia. In a new study led by Stanford Medicine, researchers analyzing the health records of Welsh older adults discovered that those who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years than those who did not receive the vaccine.

    The remarkable findings, to be published April 2 in Nature, support an emerging theory that…

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  • World’s smallest pacemaker is activated by light

    World’s smallest pacemaker is activated by light

    Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe — and be non-invasively injected into the body.

    Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the pacemaker is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of newborn babies with congenital heart defects.

    Smaller than a single grain of rice, the pacemaker is paired with a small, soft, flexible, wireless, wearable device that mounts onto a patient’s chest to control…

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  • Researchers concerned about rise in nitrous oxide misuse, deaths in US

    Researchers concerned about rise in nitrous oxide misuse, deaths in US

    Despite a recent Food and Drug Administration warning against inhaling nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, deaths due to misusing the substance are on the rise in the United States.

    Andrew Yockey, University of Mississippi assistant professor of public health, and Rachel Hoopsick, assistant professor of health and kinesiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are studying the rise of nitrous oxide misuse.

    “This is a chemical that is commonly used as a sedative or…

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  • In pancreatic cancer, a race against time

    In pancreatic cancer, a race against time

    Pancreatic cancer is projected to become the second-deadliest cancer by 2030. By the time it’s diagnosed, it’s often difficult to treat. So, for both individual patients and the general population, fighting pancreatic cancer can feel like a race against time. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor and Cancer Center Director David Tuveson offers a telling analogy:

    “We all have moles on our skin. Most of your moles are fine. But some of your moles you have a dermatologist looking at to…

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  • Using everyday products during pregnancy can affect newborn’s metabolism, study finds

    Using everyday products during pregnancy can affect newborn’s metabolism, study finds

    A newly published study by researchers from Emory University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Columbia University found that a mother’s exposure to phthalates during pregnancy can affect their newborn’s metabolism and brain development.

    Phthalates are a group of widely used plasticizers commonly found in a variety of cosmetics and personal care products, such as shampoos, soaps, and detergents, as well as plastic food and beverage containers. Previous research showed…

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  • Rates of breast and colorectal cancer screening nearly four-fold higher than lung cancer screening among those eligible

    Rates of breast and colorectal cancer screening nearly four-fold higher than lung cancer screening among those eligible

    Lung cancer screening has the potential to catch lung cancer early and save lives — but only if people get screened. Although lung cancer screening is recommended in the U.S. for certain individuals with a history of smoking, only 18% of eligible individuals in the U.S. get screened. One suggested explanation has been that those eligible are resistant to receiving preventive healthcare, but a new study published in JAMAand led by researchers at Mass General Brigham indicates otherwise.

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