Whether you're a quick or slow thinker depends on several factors, such as the efficiency of the brain's wiring and the amount of gray matter in specific control centers. But there may be another, rather surprising influence, ...
For centuries, Polynesian navigators crossed thousands of miles of open ocean, using their knowledge of stars, currents, birds, clouds and the sea to settle islands across the Pacific. Now, a new University of California ...
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Millions of Americans use cannabis products as sleep aids, but a new Northwestern Medicine study suggests marijuana may not improve sleep the way many people believe it does.
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A new organoid model built with human lung fragments may help us answer key questions about one of the body's first lines of defense against respiratory pathogens. In a new study, researchers at the Stanford University School ...
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Gut health and muscle health are often thought of as separate concerns. The first brings to mind eating fiber and probiotics, while the other centers on exercise and protein.
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Taking opioids for years does not seem to reduce pain or improve functioning in people with chronic back pain, according to a new Northwestern University study that compared 70 long-term opioid users with 70 similar patients ...
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Early axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), with a duration of no more than two years of axial symptoms, is associated with lower long-term spinal structural damage, according to a study published online Sept. 18 in Arthritis ...
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A Cleveland Clinic research team studying alcohol and the brain discovered a new way that alcohol abuse can cause brain dysfunction and damage: through immune cells called microglia. The research also identified a potential ...
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The reported death of 28-year-old laboratory technician Darya Shipilova at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute in Shelekhov, Siberia, Russia, has raised questions about a possible exposure to pneumonic plague and prompted ...
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Medicine and surgery are not the answer for overweight children, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
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