healthmedicinet_i_2017_4

summer and winter
Skimping on sleep, followed by “catch-up” days
with long snoozes, is tied to worse cognition—both
in attention...
post-traumatic stress disorder
Traumatic brain injuries affect the body’s stress
axis differently in female and male mice, according
to research presented...
Pink noise synced to brain waves
deepens sleep and boosts memory in
older adults
Credit: Vera Kratochvil/public domain Gentle sound
stimulation—such as the rush of...
Method for observing the effects of
drugs on heart cells under the
microscope
Newly published UC Davis research characterizing
specific mechanisms involved in blocking
angiogenesis, or the formation...
A third of emergency cancer patients
have not seen their GP
Around one third (34 per cent) of cancer patients
diagnosed as an emergency in...
Mathematical models accurately predict
real-life malaria outbreaks
The mosquito Anopheles darlingi is the main
vector of malaria in Central and South America, but
little has been investigated...
Indian doctors defend 500kg Egyptian’s
weight loss amid row
Indian doctors on Tuesday angrily rejected claims
that they had lied about the amount of weight an
Egyptian once believed...
Low fat diet ‘could stave off
Alzheimer’s’
They were randomly assigned either a low or high
saturated fat diet, which they ate for four weeks. In
the ‘healthy’...
How brains process facial expressions
Researchers from the Adolphs lab showed
subjects faces such as these, expressing...
‘A Normal Man Would Not Want Me’: A
Heartbreaking Look At Leprosy In 2017
This treatment, which the World Health
Organization began offering for free in 1995,
worked wonders in Myanmar ? for a while,...
4 Ways Researchers Are Pushing The
Boundaries Of Making Babies
More than 70,000 babies were born through in-vitro
fertilization in 2014, according to the latest Centers
for Disease Control...
States with the highest child vaccine
rates
Vaccines have made huge inroads over recent
decades – dramatically shrinking the numbers of
people affected by potentially...
‘Race tests’ may be fueling segregation
in white evangelical churches
A new study explores why nominally welcoming
NASA’s Cassini, Voyager missions
suggest new picture of sun’s
interaction with galaxy
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