Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research reveals that excess weight is linked to an especially high risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease. The findings are…
Category: Health & Medicine
Asthma study shows patient expectations influence the course of the disease
Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Individual expectations about one’s health can influence future condition and speed of the progression of a disease: in fact, research conducted by researchers of psychology…
Why the L-carnitine sport supplement is controversial
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sport supplements are hard to get away from if you like to exercise regularly. Even if you’re not interested in them, there’s a good chance your…
Why we need to take concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy more seriously
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Concussion in sport continues to make headlines, whether it be class actions, young men flocking to the highly violent “RunIt” activity or debate about whether Australian…
Foreign medical residents fill critical positions at US hospitals, but are running into visa issues
A group of resident doctors talks with a senior doctor inside Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Credit:…
How dairy might disrupt your sleep and dreams
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ebenezer Scrooge tried to wave away the ghost of Jacob Marley by blaming the apparition on “an undigested bit of beef … a crumb of cheese.”…
How AI is helping researchers to demystify gut bacteria
VBayesMM uses paired microbiome-metabolite data, with microbial species as input variables and metabolite abundances as target variables. Credit: Briefings In Bioinformatics (2025). DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaf30 Gut bacteria are known to be…
Missing beneficial bacteria in infant guts linked to rising asthma and allergy cases
Infant gut microbiome is crucial for immune development and influences the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) later in life. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of…
Cerebral cortex synapses transmit signals more reliably than those in rear brain regions
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Leipzig University’s Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal transmission between brain cells functions very reliably even at low…
Adults who survived childhood cancer are at increased risk of severe COVID-19, says new study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who have survived cancer as children are at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, even decades after their diagnosis. This is shown by a new…
