This Morning's Dr Chris discusses the signs of high cholesterol Whether it’s crispy tofu cubes hiding in a creamy curry or crunchy edamame beans dotted around a fresh salad, soya beans offer more than a versatile base for different recipes. Rich in essential amino acids, good fats, vitamins and minerals, soya also packs a punch of potent health properties. What’s […]

A brave six-year-old girl whose fight against a rare and aggressive cancer launched a Daily Express crusade has died. Little Beau and her mum Shirley Hepworth shared the harrowing story of her neuroblastoma diagnosis in January. It kicked off a campaign calling on the Government to help fund a trial of a promising cancer vaccine to combat the disease, which […]

Side effect warning over powerful antidepressants taken by millions: SSRIs like sertraline can ‘destroy sex lives’ even years AFTER patients stop taking them – prompting one leading psychiatrist to say: ‘Don’t go anywhere near them’ Experts are worried about more and more Brits taking the sex-dampening pills  Read more: £10 supplement might boost men’s sperm counts AND potency Depending on who […]

This Morning: Dr Chris discusses heart disease “Most people build up habits over their lifetime that can contribute to a higher risk of heart disease,” said Dr Pratsides, so the first port of call is lifestyle changes. “Having a balanced diet is one of the most important ways men can reduce their risk of heart disease,” the doctor revealed. “Small […]

Prof. Liang Haojun from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a new method to escape from metastability for self-assembly in a far-from-equilibrium system. The study was published in PNAS. Self-assembly refers to the process in which assembled primitive elements (molecules, nanoparticles, etc.) spontaneously form ordered structures through non-covalent interactions. […]

Researchers at New York University’s Langone Health academic medical center developed a large language model, now deployed at three of its hospitals, that predicts a patient’s risk of 30-day readmission and other clinical outcomes. WHY IT MATTERS Coinciding with its study published in Nature this week, the release of the NYUTron model’s code base in GitHub enables other healthcare organizations to train their own […]

Anosognosia is a condition in which a patient is unaware of their neurological deficit or psychiatric condition. Visual anosognosia, also called Anton syndrome, is associated with complete cortical blindness and unawareness of vision loss. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, sought to identify brain network connections associated with anosognosia. The […]

Children with specific psychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety, may struggle to understand emotional cues when people around them are happy, sad or angry, and that lack of understanding can make it difficult to respond appropriately in social situations. Studying brain scans from hundreds of children ages five to 15, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have […]

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Studying stem cell samples from hundreds of individuals in the same culture dish, using a method developed at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, could have transformative potential for personalized treatments and the study of complex human traits. Stem cells can develop into many different cell types in the body and allow scientists to study diseases and test drugs in […]