A new study led by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Unity Health Toronto shows that almost one-quarter of hospital-treated opioid toxicities experienced a repeat event within six months, […]
A combination of blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely prevented or cured type 1 diabetes in mice in a study by Stanford Medicine researchers. Type 1 diabetes […]
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating cause of memory loss and cognitive decline, for which no curative treatment is available. Among lifestyle factors, physical activity stands out as possibly one of the strongest defenders of […]
A decade ago, at age 55, Don Lewis suffered a stroke in his sleep. When he woke up, he couldn’t move his left arm or leg. Lewis’s neighbor realized his truck hadn’t moved in two […]
Mobile phones and endless screen time are the bane of parents the world over. But while technology is often blamed for poor health in children and teenagers, new University of South Australia research suggests that […]
For individuals who are currently cognitively unimpaired, the lifetime and 10-year absolute risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia increases with increasing amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) centiloid value, according to a study published […]
In a commentary published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers at Rutgers Health, Harvard University and the University of Pittsburgh discuss the impact of unregulated mobile health and generative artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have applied ideas from polymer physics to illuminate the mechanism behind a key pathology in Alzheimer’s disease, the formation of fibrils of tau proteins. They showed that fibril formation is […]
A study using more than 27,000 sleep records of collegiate athletes provides the best evidence to date that early morning team practices take a toll on healthy sleep.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com
A new study by researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School has revealed that almost all community-dwelling older adults with advanced dementia in Singapore experience at least one potentially burdensome intervention in their last year of life. […]
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