by American Heart Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People who have genetic variations associated with lowering LDL-cholesterol similar to statin medications appear to have an increased risk of developing cataracts and having cataract surgery, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA). Previous research has found some evidence that statin...
by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Behfar Ehdaie said the new treatment approach is like a “male lumpectomy.” Instead of removing all the tissue in a breast or prostate, doctors have learned “it is safe and effective to treat specific areas and greatly reduce the burden on patients.”. Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center In...
by Susan Walker, The Conversation Many women don’t know period delay tablets are available to them. Credit: ViDI Studio/ Shutterstock There’s an underlying law of the universe which dictates a woman’s period will always arrive just in time to disrupt important plans. For any woman who’s ever had a special trip or event spoiled thanks to...
by University of Oxford Clinical wind-up ratio is associated with SLC8A3/NCX3. (A) Clinical wind-up ratio (WUR) was performed over the mid ventral forearm using a 255-mN von Frey hair and recording a pain rating for a single stimulus followed by a series of 10 stimuli. (B) Boxplots of numerical pain ratings for the single stimulus...
by Cynthia Faye Isley, Emma Baker, Lyrian Daniel and Trivess Moore, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock If you’re feeling the cold this winter, you’re not alone. About a quarter of all Australians have trouble keeping their homes warm enough in winter. That figure is likely to soar this year, due to poor quality housing and the...
by American Chemical Society Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Like wine, beer can have health benefits when consumed in moderation. Non-alcoholic beers have become wildly popular recently, but are these drinks also healthful? In a pilot study, researchers in ACS’ Journal of...
by University of Montreal Testing plasticity model generalization on the L4-PC to L2/3-PC connection type. a 3-D rendering of a representative pair of connected L4-PC to L2/3-PC in the in silico model. Inset shows a magnified view of the synapses mediating the connection (yellow spheres). b Evolution over time of simulated EPSP amplitude during a typical...
Maiya Focht June 10, 2022 Those moles, skin tags, and liver spots should stay on your skin until you see a doctor, according to a new alert from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The alert warns against the use of over-the-counter products for removing moles, seborrheic keratoses (wart-like growths that are often brown), or skin tags, emphasizing...
Natural selection has produced mammals that age at dramatically different rates. Take, for example, naked mole rats and mice. The former can live up to 41 years, nearly ten times as long as similar-size rodents such as mice. What accounts for longer lifespan? According to the new research from biologists at the University of Rochester, a key...
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden might have found an explanation for why people with self-injury behavior generally feel less pain than others. The key seems to be a more effective pain-modulation system, a discovery that can benefit people seeking help for their self-harm. The findings are published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Most people try to...
