Category: 6. Health

Asthma is a common, serious and difficult-to-manage chronic health condition. In the U.S., 1 in 7 people are diagnosed with asthma, and that number is rising.

Over the years, researchers have identified a mix of individual and environmental…

Astringency is a dry, puckering, rough, or sandpapery sensation in the mouth caused by plant-derived polyphenols. Polyphenols, including flavanols, are well known for risk reduction in cardiovascular diseases. Flavanols, found…

Low body weight in young women has been associated with various health concerns. Rising trends in the proportion of underweight women between the ages of 20 and 39 have been seen in Japan, raising…

For decades, antidepressants such as fluoxetine – widely known under the brand name Prozac^TM – have been prescribed to millions of people worldwide. These medications are thought to work mainly by increasing the availability of…

Introduction

Central disorders of hypersomnolence (CDH) denotes different neurological disorders (narcolepsy type 1, narcolepsy type 2, idiopathic hypersomnia, insufficient sleep syndrome and Kleine-Levin syndrome) and affect approximately 705…

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A new Northwestern University study using patient nervous tissue and lab-grown human neurons has uncovered how a key disease protein, TDP-43, drives overactive nerve cells in the neurodegenerative diseases amyotrophic lateral…

Introduction

A polyclonal/mixed infection is a situation when at least two phylogenetically different strains of the same pathogen are simultaneously present in one macroorganism. This may be the result of a single transmission event involving…

Introduction

It is estimated that by 2030, the global average rate of cesarean sections will rise from the current 21.1% to approximately 30%, with the number surpassing 38 million annually.¹ According to the practice guidelines issued by the…