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Researchers map deep brain stimulation target for Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the fifth leading cause of death in adults over 65 years old. While many potential treatments for neurodegenerative disease focus on developing drugs to target key culprits, a relatively new approach aims to treat the brain.
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Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated seas 470 million years ago
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Discoveries at a major new fossil site in Morocco suggest giant arthropods - relatives of modern creatures including shrimps, insects and spiders - dominated the seas 470 million years ago. Early evidence from the site at Taichoute, once undersea but now a desert, records numerous large "fre
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Researchers find factors linked to optimal aging
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
What are the keys to "successful" or optimal ageing? A new study followed more than 7,000 middle-aged and older Canadians for approximately three years to identify the factors linked to well-being as we age.
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Combination of bad cholesterol, high blood pressure may increase heart att
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
High levels of lipoprotein(a), a type of "bad" cholesterol, may be associated with an 18-20 per cent higher risk of cardiovascular disease among people who have hypertension. However, CVD risk was not higher among those without hypertension, according to new research
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Research reveals doctors give ineffective weight loss advice to patients w
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A new research study published in Family Practice, published by Oxford University Press, finds that when doctors tell patients living with obesity to lose weight the guidance they give is generally vague, superficial, and commonly not supported by scientific evidence.
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Research reveals subcutaneous fat is protector of females' brains
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Females' propensity to deposit more fat in places like their hips, buttocks and the backs of their arms, so-called subcutaneous fat, is protective against brain inflammation, which can result in problems like dementia and stroke, at least until menopause, scientists report.
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Research finds eye movements hold clues to how humans make decisions
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Eyes may really be the window to the soul--or, at least, how humans dart their eyes may reveal valuable information about how they make decisions, suggests new research led by scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Study suggests obese patients get ineffective weight loss advice from doct
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A new research study has found that when doctors tell patients living with obesity to lose weight the guidance they give is generally vague, superficial, and commonly not supported by scientific evidence.
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Extreme weather linked to cardiovascular deaths: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Extremely hot and cold temperatures both increased the risk of death among people with cardiovascular diseases, such as ischemic heart disease (heart problems caused by narrowed heart arteries), stroke, heart failure and arrhythmia, according to new research published today in the American H
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Research finds how antibody therapy impacts COVID vaccines
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Nearly three years into the pandemic, many of us now carry antibodies against the virus--due to an infection or two, a few doses of mRNA vaccine, or a round of monoclonal-antibody treatment. But not all immune responses are created equal, and how we first developed our antibodies may influen
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Itchy eyes and a runny nose? Research suggests it could be climate change
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers with the Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute have simulated how climate change will affect the distribution of two leading allergens - oak and ragweed pollens - across the contiguous United States. The results, published in the journal Frontiers in Al
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Hearts and bodies change with age, heart disease treatments may need to ch
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
For people ages 75 and older, age-related changes in general health and in the heart and blood vessels require consideration and likely modifications in how heart attacks and heart disease are treated, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published in the Associ
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