Predicting Risk of Heart Failure for Diabetes Patients With Help From Machine Learning
Brigham and Women’s Hospital via EurekAlert – Investigators used artificial intelligence to identify top 10 variables that can predict, with a high degree of accuracy, future heart failure among patients…
Prolonged Antibiotic Treatment May Alter Preterm Infants’ Microbiome
National Institutes of Health News Release – The researchers do not know the long-term effects of these genome changes, which they term “microbiota scars.” They note that previous studies linked…
Memory T Cells Shelter in Bone Marrow, Boosting Immunity in Mice with Restricted Diets
National Institutes of Health News Release – Though this phenomenon has yet to be studied in humans, the findings suggest how the immune system may have evolved to help mammals…
Graphene Shield Shows Promise in Blocking Mosquito Bites
National Institutes of Health News Release – Results show that graphene, a tight, honeycomb lattice of carbon, could be an alternative to chemicals now used in mosquito repellants and protective…
Breakthrough in Understanding of Immune System Dysfunction
Naama Barak via Israel21c – Israeli and international scientists pinpoint protein that regulates exhaustion in T cells in discovery that may help fight disease. An international team of scientists has…
‘Tiny Fat Bubbles’ Can Boost Immunity, Calm Disease
University of Queensland via EurekAlert – People living with inflammatory autoimmune disease could benefit from an ‘immune system reboot’, and researchers have isolated specific cells to target. People living with…
Study Finds Heavily Processed Foods Cause Overeating and Weight Gain
National Institute of Health – People eating ultra-processed foods ate more calories and gained more weight than when they ate a minimally processed diet, according to results from a National…
Night Owls Can ‘Retrain’ Their Body Clocks to Improve Mental Well-Being and Performance
University of Birmingham via Science Daily – A simple tweak to the sleeping patterns of ‘night owls’ — people with extreme late sleeping and waking habits — could lead to…
Milk and Dairy Products Can Help Prevent Chronic Disease
University of Granada via News Wise – An adequate consumption of milk and dairy products at different life stages can help prevent various chronic diseases. For example, there is a…
New Clue to Beat Chronic Pain
Al Sears, MD, CNS – You would think that when it comes to the human body, scientists know all there is to know. But they don’t. Pain is caused when…
Israeli Study: Gut Biome Responds to Social Stress
Naama Barak via Israel21c – Findings could lead to tailored microbial interventions that reduce autoimmunity and additional stress-inducible illness. We all know that stress is bad for us – to…
Eating Up to Ten Portions of Fruit & Vegetables a Day May Reduce Disease, Early Death Risk
Medical News – A fruit and vegetable intake above five-a-day shows major benefit in reducing the chance of heart attack, stroke, cancer and early death. This is the finding of…
Keto Diet Has Potential in the Military
Ohio State University – COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study has researchers hopeful that a ketogenic diet could prove useful in the military, where obesity is an ongoing challenge, both…
Irregular Sleep Patterns Linked to Metabolic Disorders
National Institutes of Health – A new study has found that not sticking to a regular bedtime and wakeup schedule — and getting different amounts of sleep each night —…
