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Smoking raises risk of midlife memory loss, confusion
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a new study, middle-aged smokers are considerably more likely than nonsmokers to experience memory loss and confusion, and the chance of cognitive decline is lower for those who have quit smoking recently.
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Study examines maternal attitude, infant development
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
According to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Eve Holden and Katie Slocombe of the University of York, UK, and colleagues, mothers in the samples from the UK and Uganda have different attitudes toward parenting, but while in a group level the experience and develo
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Scientists discover primary cause of smell loss in long Covid-19
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a team of scientists led by Duke Health report, the reason some people do not recover their sense of smell after Covid-19 is due to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decrease in the number of those cells.
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Loon stratospheric balloons confirm wind data from Aeolus: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
ESA's novel Aeolus satellite reliably measures wind speed also in higher air layers and thus in a region of the atmosphere where other direct global wind measurements are relatively sparse. This is the result of a study in which data from the satellite were compared with wind observations fr
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Researchers find a protective probiotic for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A probiotic bacterium called Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HA-114 prevents neurodegeneration in the C. elegans worm, an animal model used to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Study: Infection during pregnancy linked to neurodevelopmental changes in
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Antidepressant use during pregnancy may combine with inflammation to heighten the risk of lifelong neurodevelopmental changes in babies' brains, such as those linked to autism, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.
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Warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest provide opportunity for prevention
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Sudden cardiac arrest causes one in five deaths in industrialised countries.2 Most sudden cardiac arrests occur in the community in people not known to be at risk. A cardiac arrhythmia, called ventricular fibrillation, causes the heart to stop pumping and blood flow to cease. If blood flow i
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Probiotic bacteria found in fermented foods might help dispel bad breath
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Probiotic bacteria usually found in fermented foods, such as yoghurt, sourdough bread, and miso soup, might help dispel the embarrassment of persistent bad breath (halitosis), finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published in the open access journal BMJ Open.
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Acids help against airborne viruses: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus and others travel from person to person essentially by hitchhiking on aerosols. These are finely dispersed particles containing liquid suspended in the air that an infected person expels when coughing, sneezing, or simply exhaling, and can be inhal
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Drinking 2 cups of coffee daily may double risk of heart death in people w
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Drinking two or more cups of coffee a day may double the risk of death from cardiovascular disease among people with severe high blood pressure (160/100 mm Hg or higher) but not people with high blood pressure not considered severe, according to research published today in the Journal of the
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Researchers decode the secret language of photosynthesis
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars. UC Riverside researchers have now decoded those previously opaque signals.
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Warm water temperatures could affect local economies: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a team of researchers from York University and Queen's University, warming water temperatures could have far-reaching effects, from ecology to economy.
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