22+ hour, 31+ min ago   (462+ words) Researchers at the university’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine analyzed two decades of national health data covering 17,024 adult men. The findings, published in The American Journal of Medicine, show a consistent connection between factory-made diets and tumor development. The…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (373+ words) Alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, opium, magic mushrooms… Humanity has known (and used!) these psychoactive substances for a long, long time. Some of them, like tobacco and alcoholic beverages, have been around for over 10,000 years. But what purpose did they serve? Were…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (258+ words) Led by epidemiologist Jisoo Oh and principal investigator Joan Sabaté at the Loma Linda University School of Public Health, researchers evaluated 39,498 older adults enrolled in the U.S.-based Adventist Health Study-2. The team linked baseline dietary questionnaires to fee-for-service Medicare…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (263+ words) The study, published in JAMA Network Open, included the results of three long-term research projects. These tracked the same groups of people—or a specific phenomenon—over the course of many years. The research included a hefty sample: 2,300 people whose…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (214+ words) Although our bodies naturally produce small amounts of xylitol, and tiny traces pop up in certain fruits and vegetables, the stuff in your sweets is industrially produced and added in much higher quantities. The research team led by Marco Witkowski…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (555+ words) The 2008 study he was copying contains one detail that decides whether this experiment works at all, and it is about timing. Jo Nagai started hand-raising Asian swallowtails in Kobe, Japan, as a second grader. When he released them, they did…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (405+ words) The research team was led by Luc Dupuis at Inserm and the University of Strasbourg. They evaluated clinical sleep recordings from individuals carrying high-risk genetic mutations for ALS who showed no motor symptoms. Researchers compared these recordings against data from…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (348+ words) The protective effect centers on epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG, a powerful catechin abundant in unfermented tea leaves. Rather than acting as a miraculous cure that reverses existing decay, EGCG works like maintenance work for cerebral circulation. The compound signals the…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (325+ words) “We suspected the adult thymus might still matter, but we were surprised.” — Hugo Aerts, Mass General Brigham researcher. These health benefits appeared consistently across different patient groups, matching lower rates of cancer and heart disease with higher survival during immunotherapy....

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (250+ words) In the KARDIA-2 trial, researchers led by corresponding author Dr. Akshay Desai of Brigham and Women’s Hospital screened 4,472 patients across international sites. The team enrolled 1,491 participants to take a standardized baseline blood pressure medication—indapamide, amlodipine, or olmesartan—for at…...