by Evangeline Mantzioris, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainFermented foods have become popular in recent years, partly due to their perceived health benefits. For instance, there is some evidence eating or drinking fermented foods can improve blood glucose control in people with diabetes. They can lower blood lipid (fats) levels and blood pressure in people with...
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE IMAGE SHOWING BILATERAL CUNEAL (MAGENTA) AND FRONTAL CORTEX (BROWN)CREDIT: ELIFE/UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that our brains can compensate for age-related deterioration by recruiting other areas to help with brain function and maintain cognitive performance. As we age, our brain gradually atrophies, losing nerve cells...
Damian McNamara ORLANDO — Amid all the hype, claims, and confusion, there is evidence linking some foods and drinks to an increased risk for acne, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, rosacea, and other common skin conditions. So, what is the connection in each case? And how can people with any of these skin conditions potentially improve their...
by Eric Robinson, The Conversation Credit: Andres Ayrton from PexelsThe perils of ultra-processed foods received widespread coverage in recent months—thanks in no small part to the publication and promotion of TV presenter and doctor of virology Chris Van Tulleken’s book “Ultra-Processed People.” Ultra-processed foods, in short, are commercially manufactured food products that include ingredients you wouldn’t...
By Paul McClure A new study has provided the first direct evidence to explain the function of sleep Depositphotos Researchers have combined physics and biology in a study that provides the first direct evidence explaining why we sleep. Viewing the brain like a biological computer whose resources are drained during waking, they demonstrated that sleep resets...
by World Health Organization Benefits versus harms of simulated screening approaches. a,b, Cervical cancer incidence reduction versus average lifetime number of pre-cancer treatment events (a) and number of additional pre-term delivery events due to pre-cancer treatments per cohort of 100,000 women (b) for each screening approach in women living with HIV. ASR, age-standardized rate; yrly,...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Estimating the time of MPXV emergence into the human population from the accumulation of APOBEC3-type mutations. (A) MPXV genomes sampled from human infections from 2017 to 2022, with an outgroup sequence from an outbreak in Nigeria in 1971 Mutations along each branch are indicated with circles colored by whether...
Smriti Mallapaty Passengers in a largely empty terminal wait for a flight in Cape Town, South Africa.Credit: David Silverman/Getty More than 50 countries have stepped up border controls to slow the spread of Omicron, a highly mutated SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern that is sweeping through South Africa. But researchers say many of the restrictions — especially those...
eight loss from young adulthood to midlife was associated with substantially reduced risk of developing arthritis BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE A new Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) study shows that weight loss between early adulthood and midlife lowers arthritis risk, and found no evidence of any persistent risk of arthritis for people...
by Children’s Hospital Boston Suicide is now the second most common cause of death among American youth. Fatal suicides rose 30 percent between 2000 and 2016, and 2016 alone saw 1.3 million nonfatal suicide attempts. Now, a study led by Boston Children’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital demonstrates that a predictive computer model can identify...
