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Knock Knock Eye: Snowstorm Hallucinations
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A Man Ate 600 Pounds Instant Noodles Over 6 Months. This Is What Happened To His Gut.
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Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer
Scientists at UChicago discover that trans-vaccenic acid (TVA), a fatty acid found in beef, lamb, and dairy products, improves the ability of immune cells to fight tumors.
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Opioids don't relieve acute low back or neck pain – and can result in worse pain, new study finds
Opioids are the one of the most prescribed pain-relief for people with low back and neck pain. But new research shows they don’t effectively relieve low back or neck pain and can result in worse pain.
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Ubiquitous nanoplastics found to cause Parkinson’s disease
New research is finding that nanoplastics aggregate in the brain causing certain forms of dementia.
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More States Require Schools to Teach Cursive Writing. Why?
Technological advances notwithstanding, advocates give a long list of reasons for teaching students cursive.
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Where Do Millions of Snakes Disappear to?
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Recor Medical and Otsuka Medical Devices Announce First FDA-Approved Renal Denervation System for the Treatment of Hypertension - Recor Medical
Approval of the Paradise™ Ultrasound Renal Denervation system makes innovative hypertension treatment available for the first time in the U.S. Palo Alto, Calif. – November 7, 2023 – Recor Medical, Inc. (“Recor”) and its parent company, Otsuka Medical Devices Co., Ltd. (“Otsuka Medical Devices”) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Recor’s Paradise™ Ultrasound...
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World's Leading Theory on Alzheimer's in Crisis After Major Drug Trials Fail
These drugs significantly reduce the amount of amyloid beta in the brain as intended, but this did not translate into improvements in cognitive function.
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Magicians less prone to mental disorders than other artists, finds research
Aberystwyth University study first to show a creative group with lower scores on psychotic traits than general population
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Polycystic Kidney Disease Breakthrough (New Research in PKD) - 2023
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Human Beings Are Not Puppets, And We Should Probably Stop Acting Like They Are
A few years ago, we wrote about Joe Bernstein’s absolutely fantastic long read on how we’re probably all looking at the concept of disinformation wrong. As our title said, “most information on disi…
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Marijuana use may damage brain immune cells vital to adolescent development
Researchers found that high levels of THC in adolescent mice caused brain immune cell changes linked to increased risk of psychiatric disorders and learning problems
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This Crab Saved My Life
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Five takeaways on urbanicity and depression research
Colin Xu and Robert DeRubeis discuss a recently published meta-analysis of the effects of urbanicity on depression in developing and developed countries.
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Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection
Irish eyes may not be smiling
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Kidney stone breakthrough procedure at UW called 'game changer' for patients
A groundbreaking medical procedure for those with kidney stones will soon be offered at the University of Washington after more than two decades of research.
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Cannabis use among adolescents with bipolar disorder linked to working memory deficits
A recent study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology found that adolescents with bipolar disorder who used cannabis showed working memory deficits compared to non-users. The research underscores concerns amid increasing cannabis legalization and its potential risks for this vulnerable demographic. ...
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How plants communicate with each other when in danger
The study marks the first time researchers have been able to “visualize plant-to-plant communication,” the senior author of the study said.
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Superlensing without a super lens: physicists boost microscopes beyond limits
Attempts to break the diffraction limit with “super lenses” have all hit the hurdle of extreme visual losses. Now physicists at the University of Sydney have shown a new pathway to achieve superlensing with minimal losses, breaking through the diffraction limit by a factor of nearly four times. The key to their success was to remove the super lens altogether.
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