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A powerful new real-world data platform has the potential to change the way scientists predict and understand Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementia (AD/ADRD), reports a new study by collaborators at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, School of Nursing, University of Miami, and University of Chicago. The project, known as the M3AD Research and Real-World Data Metaplatform, represents one of the most comprehensive efforts to date to use large-scale clinical data to advance precision aging research and accelerate discoveries in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The research will be…

good morning. As I told STAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Burke, I’ll try any pizza at least once. But for now, let’s drink coffee and read the news. “Scientists listening, don’t pay attention to the hype.” Andrew Harnik/Getty Images That was NIH Director Jay Bhattacharyya speaking before the House Appropriations Subcommittee yesterday. Despite the slow pace of grant awards, Mr. Bhattacharyya pledged that the agency would spend its entire budget by the end of fiscal year 2026. “I will use what I am allotted,” he said. “We are in the process of identifying good projects and grants have already been awarded.” Read…

Panic buying doesn’t just respond to a shortage, it creates one. And lessons learned during COVID-19 remain important in preventing future buying frenzy, according to behavioral scientists at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Dr Karina Luhn, a researcher in health and behavioral sciences at UniSC, says panic buying is driven less by who people are and more by how risk and social behavior is communicated during times of uncertainty. “We saw this clearly during COVID-19,” said Dr. Luhn, whose collaborative research was published in a paper in 2016. behavioral science“Reducing Panic Buying During a Crisis Lockdown: A Randomized Controlled…

The American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) and Life’s Crucial 9 (LC9) are industry-recognized metrics that summarize overall cardiovascular health. A new study demonstrated an inverse association between these indicators and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in postmenopausal women. Obesity and systemic inflammation showed partial statistical mediation of these associations. The research results will be published online today. menopauseJournal of the Menopause Society. Cardiovascular disease remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in women worldwide. This risk increases significantly after menopause due to hormonal changes, metabolic changes, and aging blood vessels. Therefore, comprehensive assessment of cardiovascular health status is…

Humans cannot survive without lungs. However, one patient was able to survive for 48 hours without them. In a report published in Cell Press andsurgeons detail how they removed a man’s severely infected lung and used an “artificial lung” system to keep him alive until a double lung transplant was possible. The case highlights the potential for new ways to keep critically ill patients alive while they wait for organ donation. Life-threatening cases of ARDS and organ failure “He was in critical condition. As soon as we arrived, his heart stopped beating. We had to perform CPR,” said lead author…

New research published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology We discovered that people think of themselves as moral, individuals as decent, and groups as immoral. For decades, psychologists have documented the “better-than-average effect,” or the tendency for people to believe that they have more positive qualities than others. This effect is particularly strong in the moral realm, where people often believe that they are kinder, more fair, and more principled than the typical person. However, most research on moral self-enhancement relies on comparisons between the self and others, leaving important questions unanswered. The question is: do people actually see…

Plastic trash is reaching some of the most remote places in the world, from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the top of Mount Everest. Hundreds of plastic-eating microorganisms have been discovered over the past quarter century that could help us clean up, but there’s a long way to go before they work in the natural environment. Digestion of plastic by microorganisms remains slow, requires high temperatures, and can only proceed efficiently in bioreactors. Furthermore, most of the plastic-eating microorganisms discovered so far can only digest one type of plastic. One solution is to combine different microorganisms to work…

A paper from the University of Gothenburg found that women who visited their health care providers frequently for recurring symptoms before the pandemic were more likely to be diagnosed with post-COVID-19 later on. One of the paper’s sub-studies looked at just over 200,000 Swedish women. Researchers analyzed women who visited primary care in the years before the pandemic and compared them with women who later received post-COVID-19 diagnoses, such as long-term fatigue or post-viral fatigue syndrome. The pre-pandemic medical visits analyzed were for symptoms such as fatigue, pain, dizziness, or other physical complaints where a clear diagnosis could not always…

Burnout is at an all-time high, with some surveys showing that two-thirds of employees now cite job burnout as a major challenge. Not only does overwork and chronic stress drain your energy, it can impair your health and cause a wide range of psychological and physical problems, including depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, and even increased risk of stroke. Shaina Shiver offers a solution rooted in science in her new book. Using ACT and CFT to recover from burnout: A blueprint beyond burnoutcontains strategies to help people in high-pressure situations break the cycle of fatigue. what is burnout The term “burnout”…

Dinosaur fossils preserved with feathers suggest that some of these animals had already lost the ability to fly. “Feather molt seems like a small technical detail, but when studied in fossils it has the potential to change everything we thought about the origins of flight, highlighting just how complex and diverse the evolution of feathers really was,” the researchers said. A new study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History analyzed rare fossils with intact feathers and found evidence that these dinosaurs did not have the ability to fly. This…