Archive: Red and White Meats Are Equally Bad for Cholesterol
Consuming high levels of red meat or white poultry resulted in higher blood cholesterol levels than consuming a comparable amount of plant proteins.
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Archive: A Little Formula in First Days of Life May Not Impact Breastfeeding at 6 Months
A study has lodged a new kink in the breastfeeding dilemma that adds to the angst of exhausted new parents: While most newborns lose weight in the first days of life, do you or don’t you offer a
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Archive: Algorithm that Tailors Digital Meditation Program Improves Attention and Memory
The intervention, an app called MediTrain, uses a closed-loop algorithm that tailors the length of meditation sessions to the abilities of the participants.
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Archive: Psychedelics, long ignored by scientists, seeing resurgence in medical research
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Archive: Blood Pressure and Glucose Control May Prevent Common Arrhythmia
Blood-pressure and glucose control may be effective in preventing heart block, a common form of arrhythmia, and the subsequent need for a pacemaker.
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Archive: Mobile App With Activity Tracker Promotes Physical Activity in Women
The UCSF study examined whether a mobile phone physical activity app combined with brief, in-person counseling increased and maintained levels of physical activity
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Archive: As More States Restrict Abortions, Research Points to Negative Health Outcomes for Women, Families
A renewed push by several states to restrict access to abortions could have negative consequences for the health and well-being of women, as well as their children, research has shown.
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Archive: CRISPR Fingers Drug-Resistant Microbes in a ‘FLASH’
A research team led by scientists at UC San Francisco and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has developed a new CRISPR-based diagnostic tool, dubbed FLASH, that can rapidly identify any drug-resistant
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Archive: Gold Standard Asthma Treatment May Not Be Effective for Most Patients with Mild Asthma
A routinely prescribed asthma-controller medication may not work any better than placebo for more than half of all patients who use it.
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Archive: Is Time More Important Than Money for Worker Well-Being?
An estimated 10 percent of U.S. jobs are in the service sector, where shift work and unstable work hours are common.
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Archive: Doctors see bright future for augmented sight
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Archive: What Does the Microbiome Have to Do with Stress and Depression?
UCSF researchers are exploring whether less diverse or unbalanced microbiome early in life can have lasting effects on a child’s reactions to stress or their risk for depression.
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Archive: How the Mental Health Community Is Bracing for the Impact of Climate Change
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Archive: Brain Changes in Autism Traced to Specific Cell Types
Changes in gene activity in specific brain cells are associated with the severity of autism in children and young adults with the disorder.
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Archive: UCSF study on marijuana legalization finds uptick in drug abuse, decrease in chronic pain reports
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Archive: Artificial Intelligence Could Vastly Scale Up Alzheimer’s Research
Researchers have found a way to teach a computer to precisely detect one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease in human brain tissue.
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Archive: You Might Have Sunscreen In Your Blood - But Don't Freak Out Just Yet
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Archive: Legal Marijuana Reduces Chronic Pain, But Increases Injuries and Car Accidents
The legalization of recreational marijuana is associated with an increase in its abuse, injury due to overdoses, and car accidents, but does not significantly change health care use overall.
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Archive: Why It's Time For Entrepreneurs To Eliminate The Stigma Around Mental Health
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Archive: Training Computers to Think More Like Scientists
Chuang and Keiser have shown how machine learning could lead scientists astray and how scientists might, in the future, avoid some of the pitfalls of training computers to be scientists.
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Archive: $5.6M to Study Enhanced Prenatal Care for Low-Income Women
The new PCORI-funded project's primary research goal is to compare the effectiveness of the two models of care in lowering a woman’s risk of preterm birth and reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.
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Archive: California to ban controversial pesticide blamed for harming child brain development
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Archive: These policies were supposed to stop pregnant women from drinking. A new study says they're hurting babies.
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Archive: Adverse Childhood Experiences Negatively Impact Adults with Lupus
Adults with lupus who report having had adverse childhood experiences, report higher disease activity, depression and poorer overall health compared to those without such experiences.
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Archive: Transgender teens in schools with bathroom restrictions are at higher risk of sexual assault, study says
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Archive: These Scientists Want to Redefine Alzheimer's as a 'Double-Prion' Disease
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Archive: Alzheimer’s Disease is a ‘Double-Prion Disorder,’ Study Shows
Two proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – spreading through tissue like an infection by forcing normal proteins to adopt the same misfolded shape.
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Archive: To Boldly Go or Anxiously Hang Back?
UCSF research has identified a particular group of nerve cells in the brain that play an important role in anxiety’s influence over behavior.
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Archive: I Have ALS, I wish a polygenic analysis had told me it was coming
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Archive: Why Big Tobacco and Big Vape love comparing nicotine to caffeine