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Neuroscience
Alcohol use leads to earlier brain aging and impaired behavioral flexibility, even in early adulthood
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Alcohol use leads to earlier brain aging and impaired behavioral flexibility, with those effects detectable even among adults in their 20s and 30s, according to an…
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Credit: Vladyslav Dukhin from Pexels It took nearly three years to win presumptive workers’ compensation coverage for breast, cervical, and other cancers that firefighters who work for federal agencies may…
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Caring for a baby is a full-time job, often causing new mothers to overlook their own health needs. This situation is exemplified by the low compliance…
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Learning that your child has cancer is overwhelming, and talking to them about it can feel just as difficult. But experts stress that open and honest communication is key to…
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Gastroenterology
Gut microbes that convert sugar into vital short-chain fatty acids point the way to novel therapeutics
A Kobe University team found that glucose is excreted into the small intestine, where bacteria transform it into short-chain fatty acids. Credit: Kobe University Gut microbes that were thought to…
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain You’ve probably heard the phrase, “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it,” and now, science backs it up. A first-of-its-kind study from Northwestern…
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Oncology & Cancer
Certain genetic alterations may contribute to primary resistance of certain cancers to KRAS G12C inhibitors
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The KRAS G12C mutation is found in approximately 3% of all colorectal cancer cases and 1% to 2% of pancreatic adenocarcinoma cases, according to Hao Xie,…