A San Diego VA study among Veterans with chronic low back pain found that those who completed a 12-week yoga program had better scores on a disability questionnaire, improved pain intensity scores, and a decline in opioid use.
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Heart attacks occur more frequently in winter.
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A 16 year study in more than 280,000 patients has suggested that air temperature is an external trigger for heart attack. The findings are presented today at ESC Congress.
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Blood-brain-barrier spheroids present high level of efflux pump (left: green) and tight junctions (center and right: green) on the surface of each spheroid to keep foreign molecules out.
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Delivering drugs to the...
More than one in five UK young people say they've recently been bullied. (stock image)
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A new UCL-led study has provided the strongest evidence to date that exposure to bullying causes mental health issues such...
New research suggests that the brain simplifies complex patterns, much in the same way that "lossless" music compression formats reduce audio files, by removing redundant data and identifying patterns.
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What makes music beautiful? The best compositions transcend culture and...
This figure represents the newly developed amphetamine sensor with a wireless communication system. The drug sensor consists of a highly sensitive organic transistor platform functionalized with drug-specific host molecules.
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Researchers in Korea have developed a wireless sensor...
Baby and cat snuggling and sleeping.
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Children exposed to high indoor levels of pet or pest allergens during infancy have a lower risk of developing asthma by 7 years of age, new research supported by the...
Kidney organoids grown in the lab and suspended in a lab dish show the formation of cysts (right) in the disease model of polycystic kidney disease. Normal kidney organoids are on the left.
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By creating and manipulating...
Green tea.
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A study published online in The FASEB Journal, involving mice, suggests that EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), the most abundant catechin and biologically active component in green tea, could alleviate high-fat and high-fructose (HFFD)-induced insulin resistance and...
An antibody administered soon after infection with Zika virus protected the fetuses of pregnant mice (left), while the fetuses in infected mice that did not receive the antibody withered away (right). Researchers have identified an antibody that protects against...
Illustration of the heart.
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A heart failure treatment using umbilical cord-derived stem cells may lead to notable improvements in heart muscle function and quality of life, according to a new study published in Circulation...
