Cuing up some Calvin Harris or Macklemore during short, intense workouts might change how we feel about the exercise, according to a useful new study of how listening to jaunty music can encourage us to push ourselves harder. The study also found, though, that other types of distractions, such as podcasts, may not have the…
My patient, a yoga instructor, had already received a week of chemotherapy, so he couldn’t be called a complete newcomer to the side effects of his treatment. But he was still bracing himself for what was yet to come. He was in his 70s and had a rare variety of a rare cancer: acute lymphocytic…
Using data from a person’s immune response, researchers have devised a blood test that may accurately predict the risk of breast cancer recurrence. Researchers are getting closer to developing a blood test that detects breast cancer recurrence. Despite scientific advancements in breast cancer research, this type continues to be the leading cancer among women in…
IMAGE: Cluster randomized trial: adapted vs enhanced stewardship intervention in four emergency departments, five urgent care centers. view more Credit: Kirsty Challen, B.sc., Mbchb, Mres, Ph.d., Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom DES PLAINES, IL — Antibiotic stewardship interventions for acute respiratory infection (ARI) is feasible and effective and can significantly reduce overuse in the emergency department…
IMAGE: Left to right: Dr. Mario Spaggiari, Arlys Martinez and Dr. Enrico Benedetti. view more Credit: Fatemi Hossein. For patients with Type 1 diabetes who don’t respond well to insulin or have other serious medical complications caused by their disease, pancreas transplantation offers hope for a cure. But obese candidates who need a pancreas transplant often…
IMAGE: Nicholas DiPatrizio (right) is an assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the UC Riverside School of Medicine. He is seen here in his lab with students. view more Credit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. — More than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. Eating foods containing high levels of…
IMAGE: Characteristic angry and sad drawings from study 3, after smoothing and corner detection. Corners are marked with red ‘+’ signs. Among the study’s participants, angry drawings had a mean of… view more Credit: Graphic compiled by Beau Sievers. (Figure 5 from the paper). Death metal band logos often have a spiky look while romance novel…
Irvine, Calif., July 10, 2019 — The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded Dr. Tallie Z. Baram of the University of California, Irvine a five-year, $15 million Silvio O. Conte Center grant. The funding will allow her interdisciplinary team to continue studying how unpredictable parental and environmental signals influence an infant’s vulnerability later in…
MINNEAPOLIS – A new study has found that mentally stimulating activities like using a computer, playing games, crafting and participating in social activities are linked to a lower risk or delay of age-related memory loss called mild cognitive impairment, and that the timing and number of these activities may also play a role. The study…
In the world of biology, each individual cell also has many moving parts and pieces, each with specific roles and places to be. If one of those pieces isn’t working correctly, it can affect the entire cell. For the past five years, researchers at Brigham Young University have studied protein complexes that have the job…