Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Treatment for breast cancer can come in many forms. In addition to surgery to remove cancerous tissue and radiation therapy, breast cancer is also commonly treated…
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Novel visualization method helps make sense of large neuronal activity datasets
Rastermap applied to neural activity from a virtual reality task. Credit: Stringer et al. Nature Neuroscience, 2024. Recent technological advances opened exciting possibilities for neuroscience, enabling the collection of increasingly…
Expert explains cardiac amyloidosis
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cardiac amyloidosis is a rare condition defined by the abnormal production of proteins that bind together to form amyloid proteins. These amyloids can gather in different…
Is thirst a good predictor of dehydration?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Water is essential for daily functioning and health, and we can only survive a few days without it. Yet we constantly lose water through sweat, urination…
Why finding bird flu in a U.S. pig for the first time is raising new worries
At least one pig has picked up bird flu amid an outbreak in poultry on a backyard farm in central Oregon. While the infection appears limited to one farm so…
Daylight saving time ends this weekend. This is how to prepare for the potential health effects
In this Oct. 30, 2008, file photo, an Electric Time Company employee adjusts the color on a clock at the plant in Medfield, Mass., days before the switch to standard…
AI model predicts progression of breast cancer better than standard hospital tests, study claims
Multi-modal AI test for invasive breast cancer. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.21256 A team of AI and medical researchers at startup Ataraxis AI, who are also affiliated with a host…
Don’t get spooked by all that sugar
Sugar overload is a real danger on Halloween, as piles of candy prove a powerful temptation to both Trick-or-Treaters and the folks handing out the goodies. Too many sweet treats…
Physician discusses advances in minimally invasive kidney stone surgery
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most small kidney stones can pass on their own. However, kidney stones that are too large to pass on their own or cause bleeding, kidney damage…
Overdose deaths are rising among Black and Indigenous Americans
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The recent decline in overdose deaths hides a tremendous disparity by race: Deaths have fallen only among white people while continuing to rise among people of…
