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Lithium in drinking water is a widespread and persistent source of human exposure across tribal communities in the western United States, according to a new study from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The results of this study document substantial regional differences in exposure and provide some of the strongest evidence to date that household drinking water contributes significantly to lithium levels measured in the body. The result is Nature: A Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.Researchers measured lithium in household tap water collected between 2022 and 2024 and compared the results to urinary lithium levels collected…
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a smart ring that simultaneously and continuously monitors up to four different chemical biomarkers in finger sweat. The set of biomarkers that the smart ring can monitor in sweat consists of glucose, ketones, vitamin C, uric acid, lactic acid, and alcohol. In a new paper published in nature communicationsUC San Diego engineers in the lab of Joseph Wang, the Aiso Yufeng Lee Professor in the Department of Chemical and Nanoengineering in the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, are reporting the results of what is believed to be the…
Men who perceive their penis size to be larger than average may also experience better erectile function, but this confidence does not necessarily translate into increased overall self-esteem. These findings emerge from a recent study among young Brazilian men and suggest that certain aspects of men’s body image are closely linked to sexual performance. This study Sexual medicine journal. Body image includes how a person perceives, thinks, and feels about their appearance. For men, the mental representation of their own genitals often determines their psychological comfort and sexual satisfaction. A person may still have psychological distress and functional problems even…
New research published in journal neuron We show evidence that by controlling our breathing rhythms, we can actively shape how we make risky choices. The findings show that taking a long breath increases the activity of the body’s resting nervous system, which in turn makes the brain more sensitive to potential rewards. This suggests that simple breathing exercises may serve as a practical tool for changing decision-making behavior in daily life. The way we process external information and make choices is deeply connected to our internal physical state. When a person is stressed, their heart beats faster and their breathing…
Get the latest news in health technology, digital health and health AI with this weekly overview. News for the week from July 20th to 24th. FDA selects Dexcom as first participant in TEMPO digital health pilot The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week named Dexcom as the first digital health device company to participate in the Technology-Enabled Meaningful Patient Outcomes (TEMPO) pilot program. TEMPO is designed to evaluate digital health technologies that improve chronic disease management while generating real-world evidence. The Trump administration introduced TEMPO last year as a companion program to the Advancing Chronic Care with Effective,…
Reclaimed derogatory language is often seen as an empowering tool for marginalized groups to take back control of harmful language. But new research published in the European Journal of Social Psychology suggests that hearing recycled homophobic remarks can actually cause unintended harm. Research shows that exposure to recycled slurs desensitizes some straight listeners to standard hate speech and worsens the mood of gay people. Hate speech includes abusive or threatening words directed at individuals based on aspects of their identity, such as race or sexual orientation. Sociologists and psychologists have recognized that this type of language causes psychological distress in…
In the most aggressive forms of leukemia, blood cell factories in the bone marrow malfunction. Rather than dividing and proliferating at their normal prolific pace, producing hundreds of billions of new cells every day, some progenitor cells stall at an immature stage. they never end. They are never what they should be. Since these are progenitor cells, they don’t actually have any function, they just expand or collapse the bone marrow. ” Raquel Espin-Palazon, Associate Professor of Genetics, Developmental and Cell Biology, Iowa State University A new discovery by a research team led by Espin Parazon identifies two essential components…
Improving diets is one of the world’s biggest public health and environmental challenges. More than 2.5 billion adults are currently overweight or obese, 88% of countries with available data face a severe burden of two or more types of malnutrition, and food systems account for a quarter to a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Published in natural foodthis study introduces MATILDA (Micro-Macro Assessment Tool for Identifying Low-Impact Dietary Behaviors), a global database that combines individual dietary surveys with country-level food supply chain and population data. Covering 165 countries, it provides a globally harmonized picture of how the nutritional quality…
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy, which reprograms an individual’s immune cells to seek out and destroy specific cancer cells, has revolutionized the treatment of blood cancers such as lymphoma. However, for some patients, this treatment can cause serious side effects. A new study led by researchers at the Massachusetts General Brigham Cancer Institute, the Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute shows that a patient’s genetic genetic makeup can influence whether they benefit from CAR T-cell therapy or experience toxicity from the treatment. The result is scientific immunology. “These findings have…
The abnormal behavior of cells in pre-eclamptic mothers and their babies could represent a new therapeutic target for the condition, new UCL-led research has found. Preeclampsia is a leading cause of maternal and fetal death, affecting 2-4% of pregnancies worldwide. This disease causes the mother’s blood pressure to become too high, which affects blood flow to the baby and can cause symptoms such as swelling, headaches, blurred vision, and pain under the ribs. If left untreated, it can harm the mother’s health, slow the baby’s growth, and in severe cases can be life-threatening. However, there is currently no cure. Now,…