Credit: Cell Metabolism (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2024.07.003 Why do asthma, heart attacks and many other health conditions tend to strike in the early hours of the morning? One possible explanation for…
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Risk perception and antibiotic resistance: Bridging knowledge and action
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health threats of our time. With microbes increasingly evading the effects of the drugs designed to combat them, we…
Clinical microbiologist explains why you should never kiss a baby
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There is a cognitive bias called “the curse of knowledge” (sometimes also called “the curse of expertise”). It happens when you incorrectly assume that everyone knows…
Cricket balls can concuss and even kill batters—at all levels, helmet use must be taken seriously
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The 10-year anniversary of the death of much-loved Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes falls on November 27. The 25-year-old’s life was tragically cut short in 2014 when…
More than half of US adults could benefit from GLP-1 medications, researchers find
Semaglutide Eligibility Among US Adults. Credit: JAMA Cardiology (2024). DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4657 In a new analysis of national data, researchers at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes…
RNA editing is the next frontier in gene therapy—here’s what you need to know
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The United States Food and Drug Administration has just approved the first-ever clinical trial that uses CRISPR-Cas13 RNA editing. Its aim is to treat an eye…
Indian man awakes on funeral pyre
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An Indian man awoke on a funeral pyre moments before it was to be set on fire after a doctor skipped a postmortem, medical officials said…
New insights into sleep uncover mechanisms with broad implications for boosting brainpower
Credit: AI-generated image While it’s well known that sleep enhances cognitive performance, the underlying neural mechanisms, particularly those related to nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, remain largely unexplored. A new…
Younger patients more affected by neurologic manifestations of long COVID
Younger and middle-aged patients seem to be disproportionately affected by neurologic manifestations of postacute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection (Neuro-PASC), according to a study published online…
Cardiology collaboration advances machine learning predictions for AFib after stroke
Visualization of an individual data sample as a P-QRS-T wave progression viewed from 12 leads. Credit: Heart Rhythm (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2024.07.061 Researchers at Penn State are using machine learning and…
