Deterioration of a part of the brain known as the medial temporal lobe can cause an older adult to make more impulsive decisions. One decision-making process — temporal discounting — places a greater value on a smaller and immediate outcome while dismissing a better but delayed outcome: instant gratification, in other words. Researchers at the...
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The antibiotic paradox: why companies can’t afford to create life-saving drugs
Paratek Pharmaceuticals successfully brought a new antibiotic to the market. So why is the company’s long-term survival in question? A patient in South Africa battles a strain of tuberculosis that is resistant to multiple antibiotics. Drug resistance is a growing problem with many diseases. Credit: Joao Silva/NYT/Redux/eyevine PDF version As the COVID-19 pandemic caught hold...
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Parental choices on junk food, healthy eating influence children
It’s no surprise that young children like sugar and salt in their food and develop their preferences based on what their parents feed them, but new research suggests that how parents view their own self-regulation also is a contributing factor. Food systems heavy in calories and light on recommended nutrition are a major factor contributing...
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COVID’S SPREAD IN THE US MAY HAVE STARTED IN 2019
Patients with undiagnosed flu symptoms who actually had COVID-19 last winter were among thousands of undetected early cases of the disease at the beginning of this year. In a new paper in the journal EClinicalMedicine, epidemiological researchers estimated COVID-19 to be far more widespread in Wuhan, China and Seattle, Washington weeks ahead of lockdown measures...
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Age, education, and surgical history affect hormone use after oophorectomy
New study identifies frequency of hormone therapy use and predictors of its use in women who underwent preventive oophorectomy as a result of carrying the BRCA gene THE NORTH AMERICAN MENOPAUSE SOCIETY (NAMS) CLEVELAND, Ohio (August 12, 2020)–Removal of the ovaries before natural menopause (surgical menopause) often exacerbates menopause symptoms and places women at increased...
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55% of coronavirus patients still have neurological problems three months later: study
Could the coronavirus lead to chronic illness? While lung scarring, heart and kidney damage may result from COVID-19, doctors and researchers are starting to clock the potential long-term impact of the virus on the brain also. Younger COVID-19 patients who were otherwise healthy are suffering blood clots and strokes. And many “long-haulers,” or COVID-19 patients...
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New role for white blood cells in the developing brain
VIB (THE FLANDERS INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY) Whether white blood cells can be found in the brain has been controversial, and what they might be doing used to be complete mystery. In a seminal study published in Cell, an international team of scientists led by Prof. Adrian Liston (VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium & Babraham Institute, UK) describe...
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Study shows highly reproducible sex differences in aspects of human brain anatomy
by National Institutes of Health A scientific analysis of more than 2,000 brain scans found evidence for highly reproducible sex differences in the volume of certain regions in the human brain. This pattern of sex-based differences in brain volume corresponds with patterns of sex-chromosome gene expression observed in postmortem samples from the brain’s cortex, suggesting...
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Adults with obesity more likely to develop H1N1 influenza
Adults with obesity are more susceptible to influenza A/H1N1pdm—the swine flu virus, according to a new study that did not, however, find a similar association with the seasonal flu. The results could be relevant in understanding the mechanisms by which infectious diseases such as influenza or the ongoing coronavirus pandemic might affect different segments of...
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Fast-spreading mutation helps common flu subtype escape immune response
by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Strains of a common subtype of influenza virus, H3N2, have almost universally acquired a mutation that effectively blocks antibodies from binding to a key viral protein, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The results have implications for flu...