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Category: 4. Health

  • A healthy diet in childhood is linked to starting menstrual periods later, regardless of BMI or height

    A healthy diet in childhood is linked to starting menstrual periods later, regardless of BMI or height

    Eating a healthy diet as a child is linked to girls having their first menstrual period at an older age than those who consumed a less healthy diet, according to a new study published today (Wednesday) in Human Reproduction.

    The findings remained unaltered by the girls’ body mass index (BMI) or height, both of which have been associated with the earlier onset of periods.

    The study has implications for health in later life as it is well known that women who started their periods at an early…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Trump Wants More Switches Of Rx-Only Drugs To Over-The-Counter

    Trump Wants More Switches Of Rx-Only Drugs To Over-The-Counter

    President Trump’s recent executive order on pharmaceuticals includes a section on facilitating switches of prescription-only drugs to over-the-counter status. Attempts to address the issue of accelerating the pace of switches aren’t new, particularly as they relate to medications in therapeutic areas previously off limits for reclassifications. But without innovative ways to spur reclassifications, barriers to…

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  • Despite Legalization, Cannabis Poses Risks in Pregnancy

    Despite Legalization, Cannabis Poses Risks in Pregnancy

    What risks do cannabis have for pregnancy? This is what a recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between cannabis use and the first four weeks of a newborn’s life, also known as neonatal period. This study has the potential to help researchers, medical professionals, and the patients better understand the long-term health risks of cannabis use during pregnancy and the steps that can be…

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  • Reducing Emissions Could Cut Inequity in Air Pollution Deaths

    Reducing Emissions Could Cut Inequity in Air Pollution Deaths

    What steps can be taken to reduce deaths from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, specifically in central and western Europe? This is what a recent study published in Earth’s Future hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom investigated how reducing GHG by 2050 over Europe could result in a substantial decrease in deaths from poor air quality. This study has the potential to help researchers, climate…

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  • Accelerating drug discovery with a single carbon atom

    Accelerating drug discovery with a single carbon atom

    A research team from the University of Oklahoma has pioneered a groundbreaking method that could accelerate drug discovery and reduce pharmaceutical development costs. Their work, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, introduces a safe, sustainable way to insert a single carbon atom into drug molecules at room temperature. These atoms have versatile diversification handles for further modifications that allow researchers to enhancing chemical diversity without…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Breakthrough discovery uses gut bacteria and AI to diagnose a chronic pain syndrome

    Breakthrough discovery uses gut bacteria and AI to diagnose a chronic pain syndrome

    McGill University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues in Israel and Ireland, have developed AI technology that can detect patterns in gut bacteria to identify complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) with remarkable accuracy, potentially transforming how CRPS is diagnosed and treated.

    CRPS, estimated to affect between 400,000 and 2.1 million people worldwide, typically develops in a limb after injury or surgery and can lead to long-term disability. It causes severe, persistent pain –…

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  • Most people say they want to know their risk for Alzheimer’s dementia, fewer follow through

    Most people say they want to know their risk for Alzheimer’s dementia, fewer follow through

    As researchers make progress in understanding how Alzheimer’s disease develops, there are growing opportunities for healthy research participants to learn their risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease dementia in the future. While many organizations often advocate for investigators to share risk estimates with individual participants, there are ethical concerns around doing so, given that there are no medical interventions to change that risk.

    A new study from Washington University School of…

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  • How AI tools can improve manufacturing worker safety, product quality

    How AI tools can improve manufacturing worker safety, product quality

    Recent artificial intelligence advances have largely focused on text, but AI increasingly shows promise in other contexts, including manufacturing and the service industry. In these sectors, targeted AI improvements can improve product quality and worker safety, according to a new study co-authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts from the University of Notre Dame.

    The study, published in Information Fusion, explores how a class of AI tools capable of processing multiple types of…

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  • New chronic pain therapy retrains the brain to process emotions

    New chronic pain therapy retrains the brain to process emotions

    A new study led by UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) shows that targeting emotional processing is key to treating and managing chronic pain.

    The study is based on a randomised controlled trial led by Professor Sylvia Gustin and Dr Nell Norman-Nott, both from UNSW and NeuRA. Along with a team at NeuRA’s Centre for Pain IMPACT, they published their results today in JAMA Network Open.

    The trial showed that enhancing the brain’s capacity for emotional processing through…

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  • Food as medicine: How diet shapes gut microbiome health

    Food as medicine: How diet shapes gut microbiome health

    The modern Western-style diet — high in processed foods, red meat, dairy products, and sugar — alters the composition of the gut microbiome in ways that can have a huge impact on health. This dietary pattern, which is also low in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, reduces the variety of microbes in the digestive system and the metabolites they produce. This, in turn, increases risk for several immune system-related conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease.

    In new research published…

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