Skin-related fibroblasts with nuclei stained green and f-actin stained red. Credit: Jude Phillip, Johns Hopkins University Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their…
Category: Health & Medicine
What to know about processed and ultra-processed food
Amy Fletcher, Pilot Plant manager, and Reid Waterman, third-year food science major, start the ice cream maker in the pilot food processing facility on the UC Davis campus. Store-bought ice…
Medical debt tied to higher likelihood of forgone mental health care
More than one in seven adults reported carrying medical debt in 2023, and of these, one in three forwent mental health care in the subsequent year, according to a research…
Study calls for more advice for young adults amid rise in dry eye disease
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Aston University have called for more advice to be given to young people about preventing dry eye disease, after a study carried out in…
Autism not linked with increased age-related cognitive decline, finds study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There is no difference over time in the spatial working memory of older people who have autistic traits and those who are neurotypical, finds a new…
Can technology transform health science? The promise of exposomics
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every breath we take, every meal we eat, and every environment we encounter leaves a molecular fingerprint in our bodies—a hidden record of our lifelong exposures.…
Rethinking stroke risk in patients with atherosclerotic carotid stenosis
Researchers examined the clinical features, radiological findings, and treatment outcomes of patients with symptomatic mild carotid stenosis, seeking to improve current medical guidelines for the management of this patient population.…
Age-related genetic changes in the blood associated with poor cancer prognosis
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, UCL, Gustave Roussy and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), have discovered that expansion of mutant blood cells, a phenomenon…
FDA approves Dupixent for chronic spontaneous urticaria
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Dupixent (dupilumab) for the treatment of adults and adolescents with chronic spontaneous urticaria. The approval is for patients 12 years and older…
Detecting lung cancer four months earlier at the GP using AI
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain General practitioners (GPs) may soon be able to identify patients with an increased risk of lung cancer up to four months earlier than is currently the…
