Tiny airborne particles from wildfires have climate change implications
Wildfires are widespread across the globe. They occur in places wherever plants are abundant — such as the raging fires
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Potential new therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease
Apolipoproten E (apoeE) is a major genetic risk factor for the development of Alzheimer’s disease, yet the protein tends to
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Mining 25 years of data uncovers a new predictor of age of onset for Huntington disease
Investigators at the University of British Columbia (UBC)/Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics (CMMT) and BC Children’s Hospital have examined
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Firearm homicide rate higher in US counties with greater income inequality
Counties in the United States with greater gaps between rich and poor have a higher rate of homicide deaths involving
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Expand the role of patients, the true experts, in neuromuscular disease research: Shared decision-making seen as an important instrument to obtain better research results and gain support and acceptance from the wider public, according to a new position paper published in the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases
The old-fashioned paternalistic relationship between doctors and patients has gradually evolved into a more collaborative one in the era of
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Treatment for obesity and fatty liver disease may be in reach: 27 new molecules show significant therapeutic potential
Professor Amiram Goldblum and his team at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute for Drug Research have discovered 27 new
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One type of brain cell may invite Alzheimer’s: Research on toxic proteins could drive treatment strategies
Better tactics for detecting, preventing and treating Alzheimer’s disease depend on a clearer understanding of cellular-level changes in the minds
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New understanding of mysterious ‘hereditary swelling’
An upper arm that swells to twice its normal size. A stomach that inexplicably swells up causing colic pain, vomiting
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Older adults’ abstract reasoning ability predicts depressive symptoms over time
Age-related declines in abstract reasoning ability predict increasing depressive symptoms in subsequent years, according to data from a longitudinal study
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Artificial intelligence predicts Alzheimer’s years before diagnosis
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology improves the ability of brain imaging to predict Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published in
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