Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Grandpa's broken hip may mean weaker bones for his grandsons

The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, shows that hip fractures in grandfathers are linked to low bone density and reduced…

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Undernourished Teens in Cameroon: Boys Outnumber Girls

Cameroon's population are changing their eating habits. Instead of traditional diets they are consuming more and more processed, sweet, and fat foods. The…

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Study Finds Aging Adults May Need Less Sleep Over Time

Results show that during a night of eight hours in bed, total sleep time decreased significantly and progressively with age. Older adults slept about 20…

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New Insights on Fossil Ancestry from Decomposing Fish Studies

Decaying corpses are usually the domain of forensic scientists, but palaeontologists have discovered that studying rotting fish sheds new light on our earliest…

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Blocking Frowns: Can Botox Improve Your Mood?

The new study reported on 40 people who were treated with botulinum toxin, or Botox. Tiny applications of this powerful nerve poison were used to deactivate…

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UC Davis Discovers Brain Protein Key to Synapse Development

A new study from UC Davis Health System identifies for the first time a brain protein called SynDIG1 that plays a critical role in creating and sustaining…

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Patients Often Gain Weight After Knee Surgery: Study Insights

Researchers Joseph Zeni and Lynn Snyder-Mackler in the Department of Physical Therapy in UD's College of Health Sciences found that patients typically drop…

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Understanding Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndrome: Antibody Insights

Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome, or APS-I, afflicts one in 100,000 people and is characterized by disrupted thyroid and adrenal gland function and recurrent…

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Teens Fall Short on Whole Grain Intake: Guidelines at Risk

Three daily servings of whole grains are recommended for prevention of type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and excess weight gain. Yet few adolescents or…

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Immune Protein Fights Exotic Virus Causing Severe Illness

This pathogen, which causes high fevers and severe joint pain, triggered a recent epidemic in Southeast Asia, infecting more than 30% of the population in some…

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Non-Invasive Testing Reduces Seizures in Tuberous Sclerosis

Now, a study by researchers with UCLA's Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program has found that an alternative, non-invasive approach to pre-surgical testing, along…

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New Math Model May Improve Cervical Cancer Detection

Quicker identification of non-responding tumors may be possible using a new mathematical model developed by researchers at the Ohio State University…

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Doctors Reduce Hours Amid Rising Malpractice Risks

Economists Eric Helland and Mark Showalter found that doctors cut back their workload by almost two hours each week when the expected liability risk increases…

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Improving Milk Safety Standards in Restaurants: Key Findings

“Out of all the dairy products we analysed, 35% of the samples exceeded the maximum contamination levels established by EU law for enterobacteriaceae, and 31%…

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Seasonal Changes Impact Multiple Sclerosis Risk in Europe

In many European populations, the HLA-DRB1*15 allele of this gene is associated with an increased risk of MS, and the large-scale study of MS patients from…

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Study Discovers Wide Variation in Calorie Content Among “Low Calorie” Pet Foods

The study, published this month in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, examined nearly 100 commercially available diets with weight…

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