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Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol – Hacker News

Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol  Hacker News New ACC Scientific Statement Details Role of Inflammation in CVD  American College of Cardiology Inflammation at the heart’s core: What clinicians and families can do now  News-Medical ACC Calls for Universal Inflammation Screening  Conexiant American College of Cardiology Releases Scientific Statement on the Link  Bioengineer.org Source link

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Ear seeding: can an ancient wellness technique really de-puff your face? | Natasha May

Ear seeding: can an ancient wellness technique really de-puff your face? | Natasha May

TikTok users have a well-known obsession with efforts to “de-puff” the face in the pursuit of a “snatched” jawline and to combat “face bloating” and “cortisol face”, which has already been debunked as not a medical term. The latest trend going viral is “ear seeding” – a needle-free form of acupuncture applying beads (often secured in place by adhesive) to …

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Psilocybin May Present Unique Risks During the Postpartum Period

Psilocybin May Present Unique Risks During the Postpartum Period

Magic mushrooms may not be the answer to postpartum depression, new research from the University of California, Davis, suggests.  In a first-of-its-kind study appearing in Nature Communications, an interdisciplinary team from the university’s Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics (IPN) dosed mouse mothers with psilocybin and found that the drug amplified anxiety and depressive-like symptoms associated with perinatal mood disorders — mental …

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Study finds 99% heart attack, stroke cases linked to ‘modifiable’ risks

Study finds 99% heart attack, stroke cases linked to ‘modifiable’ risks

Sept. 29 (UPI) — A new study, released Monday, shows nearly all people who suffer heart attacks or strokes have at least one of four major cardiovascular risk factors beforehand. Researchers found 99% of participants in the study — published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology — had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, elevated blood sugar or …

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Living to 100 years old is becoming less likely in today’s world

Living to 100 years old is becoming less likely in today’s world

The rise in life expectancy that defined the first half of the 20th century is losing steam. A new analysis of 23 wealthy, low-mortality countries finds that generations born after 1939 will keep living longer. The gains will be smaller, however, and no cohort in that period is projected to average 100 years of age. In other words, …

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The deadly secret of black mamba venom: How Africa’s most dangerous snake beats antivenom and kills fast |

The deadly secret of black mamba venom: How Africa’s most dangerous snake beats antivenom and kills fast |

A groundbreaking study from the University of Queensland has shed new light on the deadly effects of black mamba venom and why existing snakebite antivenoms are often unable to save lives. By studying the venoms of three mamba species, researchers uncovered a coordinated neurological attack that initially responds to treatment but later overwhelms the body, leaving victims with severe, uncontrolled …

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How “prebunking” can restore public trust and other September highlights

How “prebunking” can restore public trust and other September highlights

The MIT team proposed that a BEC of radioactive atoms—say, rubidium-83—could radioactively decay in sync to produce a laser beam. Neutrinos are released naturally during radioactive decay, and in the quantum BEC state, that decay should accelerate, an effect that should produce an amplified beam of neutrinos akin to how stimulated emission amplifies photons to produce a conventional laser beam. …

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