by Florida Atlantic University Digital self-harm is defined as the online posting, sending or sharing of hurtful content about oneself anonymously. Credit: Florida Atlantic University In the United States, suicide is the second leading cause of death among 10- to 19-year-olds, eclipsed only by unintentional deaths such as from an auto accident. With lawmakers, educators...
by Brain Chemistry Labs Dr. Sandra Banack at Brain Chemistry Labs preparing microRNA analysis of ALS patient blood samples. Credit: Paul Alan Cox Patients with ALS, one of the most serious neurological diseases known, have been hampered by the time it takes to receive an accurate diagnosis. The period between the onset of symptoms and...
By ERICA TEMPESTA FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 07:05 EDT, 31 August 2022 | UPDATED: 07:12 EDT, 31 August 2022 A traditional Chinese medicine expert has revealed how an herbal formula that was developed more than 100 years ago to alleviate gastrointestinal issues can also be used to prevent and treat hangovers. The Eastern Philosophy, an Asian-owned small business that specializes in herbal...
Jake Remaly August 26, 2022 Pick up a racquet. You may live longer. Older adults who participate in physical activity are less likely to die than ones who don’t, and new research shows that some types of exercise may be especially beneficial. Racquet sports, for example, are associated with the lowest risk of dying from...
While Sangamo’s sickle cell partnership with Sanofi ground to a halt earlier this year, the California biotech’s Fabry disease program, still in its early stages, has been quietly chugging along. In Tuesday’s update on the gene therapy trial, adding two more patients from its last interim readout in November, Sangamo reported that it has begun...
A new immunological treatment against hepatitis B and D viruses, both of which can cause liver cancer, shows promising results in animal models. Results from the treatment, which researchers at Karolinska Institutet are developing, have been published in the journal Gut. Chronic infections of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis D virus (HDV) are major...
You’re fast asleep. But your brain isn’t taking the night off, according to new research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Researchers studied activity in the human cerebral cortex in response to music and other sounds. They observed vigorous auditory responses in the sleeping brain, similar in many ways to responses in the wakeful state but...
People with dementia often lose their ability to communicate verbally with loved ones in later stages of the disease. But a Northwestern Medicine study, in collaboration with Institute for Therapy through the Arts (ITA), shows how that gap can be bridged with a new music intervention. In the intervention — developed at ITA and called “Musical...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER A study of mice found that dietary sugar alters the gut microbiome, setting off a chain of events that leads to metabolic disease, pre-diabetes, and weight gain. The findings, published today in Cell(link is external and opens in a new window), suggest that diet matters, but an optimal microbiome is equally...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO Pregnant women in the U.S. are being exposed to chemicals like melamine, cyanuric acid, and aromatic amines that can increase the risk of cancer and harm child development, according to researchers at UC San Francisco and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Melamine and cyanuric acid were found...
