by Clare Collins, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public Domain Salt is the most common form of sodium and is added to food during manufacturing, home cooking or at the table to enhance the taste or to extend the shelf life. Most people have heard the advice to cut down on salt. That’s because high sodium intakes are associated with...
By Aislinn Laing and Allison Martell Ricardo San Martin, a Chilean expert on the Quillay soapbark tree and its industrial uses, counts the seeds on a soapbark tree growing in the wild on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, U.S., August 17, 2021. Picture taken August 17, 2021. REUTERS/Nick OttoRead More CASABLANCA, Chile, Oct 6...
by Association for Psychological Science Credit: CC0 Public Domain Pain is the body’s way of alerting the brain to injury and disease. Without a robust pain response, physical trauma could go unnoticed and untreated. Some people, however, experience chronic pain that lasts long after an injury has healed or has no easily identifiable cause. Unfortunately, treating...
by University of British Columbia Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A drug commonly used to treat cancer can restore memory and cognitive function in mice that display symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, new UBC research has found. The drug, Axitinib, inhibits the growth of new blood vessels in the brain—a feature shared by both cancer tumors and Alzheimer’s disease, but...
by Children’s Hospital Boston Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A video game with biofeedback—aimed at keeping heart rate low during fast-paced play—can help youth learn to regulate their anger, finds a small randomized trial at Boston Children’s Hospital. If the game is further validated in larger studies, the researchers hope it would reduce the need for psychiatric...
A revolutionary new diagnostic method for prostate cancer can detect prostate cancer cells that have spread to lymph nodes both inside and outside the pelvis, according to the UC San Francisco and UCLA team whose earlier work led to the test’s FDA approval. The test, which is now available at UCSF and UCLA, makes...
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A revolutionary new diagnostic method for prostate cancer can detect prostate cancer cells that have spread to lymph nodes both inside and outside the pelvis, according to the UC San Francisco and UCLA team whose earlier work led to the test’s FDA approval. The test, which is now available at UCSF and UCLA, makes...
RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA IMAGE: EXAMPLES OF DEEP SHAPLEY ADDITIVE EXPLANATIONS (SHAP) OVERLAY IMAGES. MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION (MIP) IMAGES ARE ON LEFT, AND MIP IMAGES WITH THE SHAP OVERLAY ARE ON RIGHT. POSITIVE SHAP VALUES (RED) SHOW AREAS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO A HIGH PROBABILITY OF LESION PRESENCE, NEGATIVE SHAP VALUES (BLUE) SHOW LOCATIONS WITH...
THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY New research published in The Journal of Physiology has shown that ketone supplements may be a novel therapeutic strategy for protecting and improving brain health in people with obesity. People with obesity are known to be at a higher risk of developing cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative diseases. This new study found that giving a...
