Study identifies link between prediabetes during adolescence and young adulthood with adverse pregnancy outcomes

September 28, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Mount Sinai researchers have published a study that shows a link between prediabetes among young people and adverse pregnancy outcomes later in life. The findings, published

Scientists discover gene responsible for rare, inherited eye disease

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Ophthalmic images from five of the patients in the study demonstrate significant variability in the forms of retinal dystrophy. Credit: Bin Guan, Ph.D. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health

Global crisis of childhood overweight and obesity

September 28, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Since 1990, the rise in childhood overweight and obesity has surged across every continent, almost doubling in prevalence. While the United States has the highest prevalence,

Automatic speech recognition learns to understand people with Parkinson’s disease—by listening to them

September 28, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. As Mark Hasegawa-Johnson combed through data from his latest project, he was pleasantly surprised to uncover a recipe for Eggs Florentine. Sifting

New drug for schizophrenics has experts excited

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Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels Experts expressed enthusiasm Friday after US health regulators approved the first new form of treatment for schizophrenia in decades. The drug, called Cobenfy and developed

New intervention to protect lungs during cardiac surgery, feasible, safe, and effective, study finds

September 28, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new intervention which keeps lungs regularly expanding when using a heart-lung machine during heart valve surgery might protect lung function and exercise capacity in adult

What parents, caregivers can do if their child is struggling with mental health

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Pixabay from Pexels According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, suicide is the second leading cause of death for 10- to 24-year-olds. Deaths are only a portion of the

Harnessing the power of eye tracking in brain-machine interfaces

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

A person watching the fear of height-related clip while the eye tracking bar located at the bottom of screen records the eye tracking, and wearable watch collects the skin conductance

Analysis suggests air pollution, high temperatures and metabolic risk factors drive global increases in stroke

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Although stroke is highly preventable and treatable, there has been a rapid rise in the global stroke burden between 1990 and 2021, due to both population

Study shows tendency for infection and bacterial flora explain caries

September 21, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: eBioMedicine (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105001 Researchers at Umeå University have for the first time been able to show that individual variation in susceptibility to infection and bacterial flora together explain