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Using CT scans, scientists have seen for the first time how psilocybin reshapes a person's personality

It turns out that psilocybin is considered a "spiritually reborn" drug for a reason: it causes a radical reorganisation of the large-scale brain network responsible for introspection and remembering

18.07.2024

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The belief that menstrual cramps only occur during ovulation has been questioned

Menstrual cramps are defined as a marked throbbing or pulling pain in the lower abdomen that occurs a few days before or during menstruation

12.07.2024

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The US Department of Defence has invested $46 million to develop a blood substitute

The US Department of Defence's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested $46 million to develop a synthetic human blood product, ErythroMer, which has shown good results in preclinical studies in the spring of 2024

10.07.2024

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Medics have created a cell that prevents the growth of cancerous tumours

Stem cells have been modified so that they cannot divide and degenerate into malignant cells

10.07.2024

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Infections have been identified as the leading non-oncological cause of death in CAR-T therapy

They accounted for half of such deaths, a meta-analysis showed

10.07.2024

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Air pollution causes lymph nodes to turn black

Living in a city with a highly polluted atmosphere has a marked effect on the lymph nodes in the lungs

04.07.2024

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Mixing energy drinks and alcohol in youth impaired brain function in adulthood

Alcohol consumption along with energy drinks at a young age affected brain function in the long term

03.07.2024

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Generation X was found to be more susceptible to cancer

American epidemiologists, having studied data from 3.8 million patients with cancer, found out whether the incidence of cancer in general and different types of cancer in particular is growing or slowing down from generation to generation

14.06.2024

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Non-hormonal male contraceptive reversibly deprived male mice of fertility

US researchers have developed a small-molecule compound from the group of kinase inhibitors that acted as a reversible non-hormonal male contraceptive in experiments on mice

27.05.2024

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Papillomavirus infection increased the risk of death from cardiovascular disease in women

Korean scientists analysed a national medical registry and found that papillomavirus infection (HPV infection) is associated with an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease

23.05.2024

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Overweight increased the risk of pregnancy complications regardless of the mother's background

Pontus Henriksson of Linköping University and colleagues conducted a population-based cohort study and concluded that maternal overweight and obesity plays a major role in the development of pregnancy complications regardless of background and ethnicity

04.10.2024

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Phones of intercontinental travelers called a biosecurity threat

Devices traveling between continents can spread pathogens, their virulence factors and antibiotic resistance, posing a potential biosecurity threat

02.10.2024

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Owl people are more likely to be overweight and have diabetes mellitus

Researchers from the Netherlands have found that people of the late chronotype have a higher body mass index, larger waist circumference and are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes

10.09.2024

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Cerebrospinal fluid has been discovered outside the brain for the first time

Looks like physiology textbooks will now have to be amended: according to a new study, cerebrospinal fluid (liquor) also normally washes over nerves throughout the body

09.09.2024

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Increased metabolism has been identified as a significant mechanism of weight loss when taking GTP-1 agonists

Irish researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial and found that the effects of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GPP-1) receptor agonists were not only due to a reduction in appetite and calorie intake, as commonly believed, but also to an increase in visceral adipose tissue metabolism

29.08.2024

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Pain has been named as the most common symptom of long term covidae

British scientists conducted a relatively small retrospective case series study and found out what symptoms most often bother patients with long covidae

29.08.2024

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Health professionals have calculated how much more likely cannabis users are to miss work

People who use cannabis, especially those suffering from disorders due to this habit, are disproportionately more likely to miss work due to illness, injury or absenteeism

28.08.2024

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Poor body flexibility has been linked to an increased risk of premature death

Flexibility, i.e. the ability of a person to make movements of different parts of the body with a large amplitude, is considered to be one of the important components of physical health

22.08.2024

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WHO re-declares monkeypox outbreak an emergency of international concern

Such a decision was the second for the infection in the last two years - it was characterized the same way in 2022 due to the spread of the virus across several continents

15.08.2024

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Washbasins have turned out to be breeding grounds for dangerous germs

A recent study found that biofilm, a slimy substance sometimes found around sink drains and faucets, is home to entire communities of bacteria

13.08.2024