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Psychiatrists have cured a 70-year-old woman who was victimized by a con artist and fell into erotomanic delirium

Medics have described a case study: an elderly Hungarian resident fell in love with an online fraudster pretending to be a famous musician

01.04.2024

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Scientists have determined how sleep affects immunity

The physical and psychological health of a person largely depends on the sleep schedule, which in the modern world manages to keep only 15% of people

11.03.2024

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Neural network recognizes pregnancy complications

To train the artificial intelligence, 10,000 anonymized records of pregnant women with a confirmed risk of preterm labor were used

01.03.2024

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Preventing HIV infection in women with twice-yearly injections has been shown to be 100 percent effective

US researchers presented data from an interim analysis of a phase III clinical trial of lenacapavir for pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV infection in women

24.07.2024

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Only half of people with STDs felt it necessary to tell their sex partner about them

A fresh review of scientific papers on sexually transmitted infections has revealed that sufferers are very reluctant to disclose their diagnosis

07.06.2024

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Taking oral contraceptives caused baldness in a proportion of women

Scientists from the UK and Indonesia have shown that women who have mutations in certain genes can lose their hair when taking the contraceptive pill

31.05.2024

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A new antibiotic blocked the lipoprotein transport system of bacteria

As reported in the journal Nature, the antibiotic affects the bacterial lipoprotein transport system and does not significantly affect the gut microbiome

30.05.2024

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The energy costs of pregnancy have been called underestimated by an order of magnitude

Australian researchers carried out a series of calculations on 81 animal species and concluded that a mother's energy expenditure when carrying offspring is much higher than existing theories predict, and therefore the total energy required for reproduction is much higher than available estimates

20.05.2024

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Plant-based diet reduced the risk of prostate cancer progression

A longitudinal cohort study of US doctors found that people with a high intake of plant-based foods had a lower risk of prostate cancer progression compared to those who consumed very little plant-based foods

07.05.2024

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People with autism spectrum disorders have been found to have a high incidence of self-harm

A retrospective cohort study found that adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have higher rates of self-harm, anxiety, depressive disorders, and substance use disorders

06.05.2024

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Central obesity has been linked to the risk of incontinence

American scientists conducted a population-based study and found that central obesity is associated with an increased risk of incontinence and serves as a more reliable predictor of this condition than body mass index (BMI)

02.05.2024

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Immune checkpoint inhibitors did not increase the risk of pregnancy abnormalities

Previously, the use of this class of drugs in pregnant women was associated with a high risk of adverse effects on the fetus

30.04.2024

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Sinusitis unexpectedly increased the risk of arthritis by 40%

Within a 10-year field of sinusitis, a person may develop a rheumatic disease such as arthritis

26.04.2024

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The cause of the man's severe migraines turned out to be porcine tsetse

A recent episode in the practice of American physicians has shown that parasitic infections are also capable of manifesting themselves in the form of migraines

25.04.2024

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Scientists have discovered a new strain of coronavirus in a patient with 613-day covirus

According to Time magazine, Dutch researchers found that a new strain of coronavirus was incubated in the body of a 72-year-old patient with a weakened immune system for 613 days of illness

24.04.2024

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Increased antibiotic resistance has been linked to air pollution

As reported in The Lancet Planetary Health, this correlation increased over time and is associated with nearly half a million excess deaths

08.04.2024

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Office air affected workers' creativity

As it turns out, not only the level of creativity of a particular person, but also the office environment plays an important role in the search for "creative solutions"

26.12.2023

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Digital syringe-automatic machine received a registration certificate from Roszdravnadzor

Scientists of MISIS University have developed a digital syringe-automatic machine, thanks to which it is possible to give an injection to oneself or other people at home

24.07.2023

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Low levels of vitamins D and B12 have been linked to the severity of bedwetting in children

A cross-sectional study by Egyptian scientists found that low levels of vitamins D and B12 are inversely correlated with the number of episodes of bedwetting per day

03.10.2024

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Marriage improved men's health, but not women's

Experts from Canada's University of Toronto have studied how marriage is linked to the likelihood that a person will age "optimally," meaning without serious physical, cognitive, mental or emotional conditions that interfere with daily activities, as well as high levels of happiness

23.08.2024