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Penn Researcher Studies Hidden Immune Connections in Arthritis
What role does the immune system play when some people with psoriasis go on to develop inflammatory arthritis? The skin and the joints are seemingly unrelated organs. Yet abo...
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A Reminder To Take Your Blood Pressure Meds
High blood pressure, or hypertension, has been linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. But taking medications to keep blood pressure in...Full Article
Pain Scores, Age Can Help Identify Patients More Likely to Use Few or No Opioids After Surgery
Patients who are younger or who haven’t taken opioid pain medication before are more likely to not need any after many common surgeries, according to new research from the Per...
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Physical Fitness Since Childhood Predicts Cerebellar Volume In Adolescence
Physical fitness since childhood is associated with cerebellar grey matter volume in adolescents. According to a recent study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä and the ...Full Article
Why Epilepsy in Children Is Easily Missed
Q&A With Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s Deborah Holder, MD Parents often miss the signs that their child has epilepsy, according to Deborah Holder, MD, a neurologist at Cedar...Full Article
Combined, High Maternal Stress And Prenatal COVID-19 Infection May Affect Attention Span In Infants
For mothers who experience high stress during their pregnancy, prenatal COVID-19 infection may be associated with an increased risk for impaired attention and delayed socioemo...Full Article
New Smartphone App Quickly Analyzes Human Motion To Aid Physical Rehabilitation
A research team funded by the National Institutes of Health has developed a smart phone app that can track and analyze a person’s ability to move from one place to another, kn...Full Article
As People Live Longer, Family Caregivers Face Financial Challenges
Many people overlook the short- and long-term costs of financial caregiving, a growing problem that financial advisors and employers can help address, according to a new repor...Full Article
Breast Cancer at 30?
Amanda Butler and Isabella Bugatti, both just entering their 30s, were blindsided by a diagnosis that is on the rise among women their age: breast cancer. They are not the o...
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Highest Honor Bestowed for Foundational Discoveries that Gave the World a Vaccine to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic
The University of Pennsylvania messenger RNA pioneers whose years of scientific partnership unlocked understanding of how to modify mRNA to make it an effective therapeutic—en...Full Article
Golf, Walking And Nordic Walking May Enhance Cognitive Function In Older Adults
Playing a single 18-hole round of golf or completing 6 km of either Nordic walking or regular walking may significantly improve immediate cognitive function in older individua...Full Article
Navigating Childhood Asthma: Insights From a Pediatric Pulmonologist
Q&A With Irina Dralyuk, MD, Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s As the seasons transition from warm fall nights to cool and wintry evenings, children with asthma often experience ...
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Why Yoga May Be Good For Your Brain
Need a gentle way to help relieve stress and give your memory a boost? Try yoga. A three-month program of yoga and meditation had cognitive benefits comparable to those of a m...Full Article
Graphene Oxide Reduces The Toxicity Of Alzheimer’s Proteins
A probable early driver of Alzheimer's disease is the accumulation of molecules called amyloid peptides. These cause cell death, and are commonly found in the brains of Alzhei...Full Article
CTE Identified In Brain Donations From Young Amateur Athletes
In a study of 152 deceased athletes less than 30 years old who were exposed to repeated head injury through contact sports, brain examination demonstrated that 63 (41%) had ch...
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The Best Fat For Your Brain
Opting for olive oil rather than processed fats or oils may be good for your brain, according to a new report. The study found that people who consumed more than half a tables...Full Article
Are Cannabis Products Safe And Effective For Reducing Symptoms In Children With Cancer?
A recent analysis of all relevant published studies reveals a lack of evidence to determine the dosing, safety, and efficacy of medical marijuana or cannabis-containing produc...Full Article
Embracing Life's Rhythm: Kathleen's Robotic Surgery Journey
Kathleen Tierney had always lived life at full speed. Over a career that spanned over four decades, Tierney devoted her life to coaching, and later as an athletic administrato...Full Article
Calorie Restriction In Humans Builds Strong Muscle And Stimulates Healthy Aging Genes
Reducing overall calorie intake may rejuvenate your muscles and activate biological pathways important for good health, according to researchers at the National Institutes of ...Full Article
Help for Complex Scoliosis Patient
Sixteen-year-old Rishee Ray is making history at Cedars-Sinai as the first pediatric patient to undergo halo-gravity traction ahead of spinal surgery. Rishee has spent most ...Full Article
Researchers Develop New Method To Identify Potential Stroke Therapies
Researchers have identified uric acid as a potential therapy to enhance recovery from acute ischemic stroke using a new method for conducting preclinical animal research. In t...Full Article
Good Dental Care Tied To Better Brain Health
Need more incentive to brush and floss? A new report shows that good dental health is linked to better brain health. The study, published in Neurology, found that gum diseas...Full Article
Paging Dr. ChatGPT: How These Penn Researchers Are Using AI to Make Healthcare Better
Note: This article was written by a real person. If you ask the artificial intelligence text generator called ChatGPT how it can help in medicine, it will answer you. “ChatGP...
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Can a Blood Test Detect Alzheimer’s Disease?
In July, the first direct-to-consumer blood test designed to assess a user’s risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease hit the market. The test, which has not undergone Food and...Full Article
NIH Investigates Multidrug-Resistant Bacterium Emerging In Community Settings
New “hypervirulent” strains of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae have emerged in healthy people in community settings, prompting a National Institutes of Health research gro...Full Article
