Do I have insomnia? Five reasons why you might not
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Doctors' offices were once private. But increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) scribes (also known as digital scribes) are listening in.
A new study from MIT neuroscientists reveals how rare variants of a gene called ABCA7 may contribute to the development of Alzheimer's in some of the people who carry it.
Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called synapses, according to a study led by Stanford Medicine researchers. The pulse of electrical signals to the cancer cells strongly promotes tumor growth, the researchers found.
Researchers have found that the presence of certain bacteria in the maternal gut microbiome during early pregnancy is linked to a higher risk of preterm birth. Published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe on September 10, the study reports that one particular species, Clostridium innocuum (C. innocuum), contains a gene that can degrade estradiol—an important pregnancy hormone.
It's natural to crave sugar when you feel tired and want a boost of energy. Now scientists at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute have linked a brain area in mice to the drive to consume not just sweets, but fats, salt and food. The findings show this area serves as a kind of dial that can amplify or repress consumption.
A quicker, cheaper MRI scan was just as accurate at diagnosing prostate cancer as the current 30–40 minute scan and should be rolled out to make MRI scans more accessible to men who need one, according to clinical trial results led by UCL, UCLH and the University of Birmingham.
Lung tumors don't just evade the immune system. They reshape it at its source. Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators report in the September 10 online issue of Nature that tumors rewire immune cells in the bone marrow before they even reach the cancer, suggesting a new target to enhance the durability of current immunotherapy.
Men, black communities and the poorly educated are experiencing significant disparities in accessing game-changing digital health care for type 2 diabetes, data scientists from The University of Manchester show.
When a critically ill baby with dextro-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA) was transferred to Children's Hospital Los Angeles last year—just hours after birth—the Heart Institute team saw right away that the case was anything but routine.
Even a single night of sleep trouble can feel distressing and lonely. You toss and turn, stare at the ceiling, and wonder how you'll cope tomorrow. No wonder many people start to worry they've developed insomnia.
More child deaths occur in winter months compared with the rest of the year, new findings by the University of Bristol-led National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) have shown. The report, published today (10 September) used NCMD records of all child deaths in England before age 18.
New Zealand's pandemic news coverage was infused with nationalism, creating a sense of competition and framing COVID-19 as a global contest the country was winning, a University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study shows.
For something so small, the prostate can cause big problems. This gland, which is roughly the size of a walnut, is an essential part of a man's urinary and reproductive systems.
An initiative to reshape HIV care in general practice across London has been hailed a success after notable increases in HIV testing and statin prescribing.
Studying how people are injured inside buildings during earthquakes could improve safety and survival.
The Make America Healthy Again Commission, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has released its Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy, a 20-page report the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services described as a "sweeping plan" to "reverse the failed policies that fueled America's childhood chronic disease epidemic."
In a cross-sectional study conducted in nine urban Federally Qualified Health Centers and published online in Pediatrics, the prevalence of diaper insecurity was 41% among pediatric patients aged 0 to 36 months.
A UNSW Sydney researcher says narrowing women's health to "bikini medicine"—issues that occur between the breasts and the pubic bone—has left women underserved in nearly every other area of health, including disease, aging and chronic illness.
Malaria deaths are likely to rise this year due to sweeping foreign aid cuts, the head of the Global Fund, a Geneva-based NGO locked in the fight against major infectious diseases, warned on Wednesday.