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Why individual differences hold the key to unlocking psychiatric mysteries
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: In a revealing Genomic Press Interview published today in Genomic Psychiatry, Dr. Noritaka Ichinohe challenges a foundational assumption that has quietly constrained psychiatric research for decades: the belief that meaningful explanation requires averaging away individual differences.…
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Benefits, Uses and Side Effects
For centuries, people have collected propolis, a gummy resin that bees use to fill in the cracks of their beehives and keep predators at bay. These days, propolis is sold in capsules (pills) or as a liquid extract — and modern-day fans claim that it has all types of health benefits. Advertisement Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center.…
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Westerners are embracing ‘Mad Honey’ – with little knowledge about health and ecological impacts – The Himalayan Times – Nepal’s No.1 English Daily Newspaper
KATHMANDU: The guest, wearing his trademark red bandana, fumbles through his bag and produces a transparent container the size of his palm. It is filled three-quarters with a brown, viscous liquid, topped off with a bright yellow cap – the color signifying caution. “Now this looks like store-bought honey because there’s a label there,” teases Will Sonbuchner, creator and host…
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Vitamin A derivative suppresses immune response and cancer vaccine efficacy
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Scientists at the Princeton University Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have identified novel mechanisms by which a metabolic derivative of vitamin A-all-trans retinoic acid-compromises both the body’s normal anti-cancer immune response and, in…
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University Health turns high-risk pregnancies into healthy births
Sponsored by: Bianca Chavarria was 28 weeks pregnant with her second child when something didn’t feel right. She felt extreme pressure and an unusual pain in her abdomen, something she hadn’t experienced during her first pregnancy. A sonogram showed an unusual pattern of blood vessels in her placenta. Her OB-GYN knew Bianca, 21, had placenta previa, a condition that could…
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Common blood signals explain why chronic diseases cluster as we age
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: By linking routine and advanced blood biomarkers to disease patterns and progression across aging cohorts, this study shows how systemic metabolic stress may underlie the growing burden of multiple chronic conditions long before clinical decline becomes…
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Community-centered Health Care | National Affairs
Seth D. Kaplan Current Issue The United States’ health-care system combines impressive innovation and product development with business practices that disadvantage many Americans. On the one hand, our system yields great achievements; new drugs and medical products tackle difficult illnesses, fix major problems such as heart defects, and improve function for the disabled. On the other hand, many people dislike — even hate — how…
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Limited healthcare access leaves Makoko dependent on alternative medicine for malaria
The lagoon in Makoko, one of Nigeria’s largest informal settlements, commonly referred to as Nigeria’s Venice, lay so dark it was almost impossible to see the reflection of the sun. The creek’s colour was a reminder of decades of pollution and informal waste disposal that have stained the water. It was a Tuesday afternoon in late November. The waterway was…
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How a Family Emergency Deepened My Respect for Health Care Workers
Over the holiday break my wife and I experienced one of those ordeals that all parents dread: a young child in the ER, hooked up to an IV, for an adverse response to medication to treat an illness. Though we are fully past it, the sense of near-disaster underscored for me the centrality of great emergency care for all Americans—and…
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To Knock Down Health-System Hurdles Between You And HIV Prevention, Try These 6 Things
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: A couple of years ago, Matthew Hurley got the kind of text people fear. It said: “When was the last time you were STD tested?” Someone Hurley had recently had unprotected sex with had just tested…
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