Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is active when thinking about…
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Researchers discuss reassessing COVID-19 precautions in 2023
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new editorial paper titled “Reassessing the risks and benefits of COVID-19 precautions in 2023” has been published in Oncotarget. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed over…
Study finds protein p53 regulates learning, memory and sociability in mice
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology led by Professor Nien-Pei Tsai (right) and Kwan Young Lee have established the protein p53 as…
LA County offers 3,000 new mental health and substance use treatment beds in bid to end lawsuit
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Facing the prospect of a trial neither side wanted, Los Angeles County and the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking more homeless services have proposed a settlement…
Experimental nasal spray may offer quick, easy remedy for treating rapid heartbeat
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A fast-acting medication delivered as a nasal spray may someday allow patients with intermittent rapid heartbeats to treat it themselves as soon as they develop symptoms,…
Patients who quit smoking after percutaneous coronary intervention do as well as non-smokers, unless they smoked heavily
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Patients who quit smoking after undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for narrowed arteries have similar outcomes as non-smokers during four years of follow-up after the procedure,…
New report on use of multiplex panels for diagnosing infectious diseases
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) today published a review of the current benefits and challenges to using multiplex PCR panels for the detection of microbial…
Elevated temperatures and climate change may contribute to rising drug and alcohol disorders
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Hospital visits from alcohol- and substance-related disorders are driven by elevated temperatures and could be further affected by rising temperatures due to climate change, according to…
Cost of living crisis set to cut UK lives short and significantly widen wealth-health gap
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The proportion of people dying before their time (under the age of 75) is set to rise by nearly 6.5%—30 extra deaths/100,000 of the population annually—with…
fMRI scans may improve diagnosis of sports-related concussion
Aron Barbey is backdropped by an fMRI machine at the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, which he now directs after recently joining the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Credit: Craig Chandler…
