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Oct 2025
Smartphone app for muscle relaxation reduces migraine disability in ED patients
A smartphone app for muscle relaxation significantly reduced migraine-related disability in patients visiting the emergency department, a new study shows.
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Oct 2025
UIC researchers discover an important cellular mechanism that drives aging
As our hairs go gray and our muscles weaken with age, our immune system also changes. In particular, the stem cells that become blood or immune cells can develop mutations, potentially leading to cancers or other dysfunctions.
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Oct 2025
World's largest-ever clinical trial launched to test treatments for Parkinson's disease
The world's largest-ever clinical trial of treatments to slow or stop the progression of Parkinson's disease has launched, led by researchers at UCL and Newcastle University.
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Oct 2025
New computer model sheds light on how brain circuits support flexible thinking
Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right.
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Oct 2025
Bacteria-based mosquito program shields Brazilian city from record dengue outbreak
Dengue has been a public health problem in the tropical world for decades and 2024 saw a global dengue surge, with more than 14 million cases and 10 thousand deaths reported worldwide – more than more double the figures for dengue epidemics previously recorded in 2023 and 2019.
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Oct 2025
New AI tool detects bite rate to help prevent childhood obesity
The faster a child takes bites during a meal or snack, the greater risk they have for developing obesity, according to researchers in the Penn State Department of Nutritional Sciences.
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Oct 2025
New enzyme offers cleaner route to more stable diabetes and obesity drugs
Chemistry researchers at the University of Utah have uncovered an enzyme, dubbed PapB, that can "tie off" therapeutic peptides-protein-like drugs-into tight rings, a process known as macrocyclization.
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Oct 2025
Blocking key protein restores healthy lung function and reduces fibrosis in mice
Pulmonary fibrosis is a deadly disease in which the lungs become thickened and scarred, gradually losing their ability to deliver oxygen to the body.
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Oct 2025
RIKEN scientists reveal connection between deep sleep and brain fluid dynamics
Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid that surrounds and supports the brain and spinal cord.
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Oct 2025
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Schrödinger’s government shutdown
Democrats and Republicans are both facing potential political consequences in their continuing standoff over federal government funding.
