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The days of urinating on a stick, and then sharing those sticks online, might be numbered, with the world’s first saliva pregnancy test hitting the market.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Pregnancy test, Pregnancy, Diagnostic devices, Ho… Continue reading World’s first saliva pregnancy test goes on sale
Fake sites are using social media to target the LGBTQ community as more states ban gender-affirming healthcare. Continue reading A Sketchy Website Advertised Fake Hormone Pills to Trans People. Then, It Disappeared.
Scientists in the UK have discovered a gene variant that causes a common type of high blood pressure – and most importantly, found a cure. A simple surgical procedure saw patients with previously severe hypertension needing no drugs or further treatmen… Continue reading New cause for common hypertension discovered – as well as a cure
Even though a variety of conditions may cause people to lose their appetite, it’s important for those folks to keep eating in order to recover. A new “electroceutical” ingestible capsule could help, by making them feel hungry … and it was inspired by a… Continue reading Gut-zapping lizard-inspired capsule could boost patients’ appetites
Using cutting-edge gene editing technology researchers have engineered prairie voles with no oxytocin receptors. These notoriously monogamous mammals were thought to rely on oxytocin to form crucial social bonds but the results of these new experiments… Continue reading CRISPR study questions everything we know about “love hormone” oxytocin
A clinical trial has shown a new type of medical scan can identify specific adrenal gland nodules responsible for excess hormone secretion linked to high blood pressure. The new scan offers the first simple diagnostic tool for what is thought to be the… Continue reading New CT scan helps detect curable form of high blood pressure
New research has found hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can be linked with better brain health and cognition among women with a high genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The findings are observational, and cannot determine causality, but they do build on a body of study trying to understand why women are generally more likely to develop Alzheimer’s compared to men.
Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle
Tags: Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia, Hormone, Aging, University of East Anglia
Continue reading Hormone replacement therapy may reduce dementia risk in women
Striking new research proposes taking a common anti-inflammatory drug soon after experiencing a traumatic event could help people forget upsetting memories and reduce their risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading How taking an anti-inflammatory drug after a trauma may prevent PTSD
A hormone believed to be released by muscles during exercise has been found to reduce levels of a toxic protein associated with Parkinson’s disease. The promising animal studies indicate future therapies could be developed based on the way this hormone improves brain health.
Category: Science
Tags: Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia, Exercise, Hormone, Neurological, Brain, John Hopkins University
Continue reading Hormone secreted when exercising halts Parkinson’s decline in mice
A torn meniscus, the cartilage in the knee, is a common sports injury, and unfortunately it doesn’t heal well. But researchers in Japan have now identified a hormone that helps repair the cartilage after a surgical treatment.Continue ReadingCategory: M… Continue reading Hormone-hardened tendons could help repair torn knee cartilage