8+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1110+ words) A Mass General Brigham study finds the body burns fewer calories digesting a meal in the evening, and the cause is the internal clock, not sleep or activity. A sandwich eaten at 7 p.m. costs the body less energy to break down…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (943+ words) A surplus of insulating brain cells, low on one protective protein, tracked the steepest cognitive decline in adults followed since childhood. After 70, memory and quick thinking slow down for most people, and the usual explanation is that the brain’s wiring…...

7+ hour, 6+ min ago   (971+ words) Men whose genes make more of the receptor Ozempic targets had 7% higher odds of pattern baldness. Ozempic hair loss may be partly genetic. Lose a lot of weight quickly and some hair tends to come out with it. For people…...

9+ hour, 30+ min ago   (1157+ words) Early stress in mitochondria before birth helped mouse hearts resist later chemotherapy damage by creating lasting protective changes. Chemotherapy can save lives, but some drugs can also put the heart under serious strain. Doxorubicin, a chemotherapy used against several cancers,…...

17+ hour, 33+ min ago   (912+ words) Dogs and cats can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are genetically similar to strains found in people worldwide. Antibiotic resistance is often discussed as a hospital problem, where bacteria can survive medicines that once stopped them. Resistant bacteria also occur outside…...

19+ hour, 37+ min ago   (970+ words) Columbia researchers estimate autism life expectancy on Medicaid at about 65 years, with excess deaths from flu, malnutrition, and drowning. Autism is a lifelong condition, and most of the research on it has gone into causes, screening and treatment. How long…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (981+ words) Digestive problems including constipation, diarrhea, stomach pain, and IBS are more common in people diagnosed with ADHD. An ADHD appointment covers attention, impulses, and how school or work is going. Digestion rarely comes up. But constipation, diarrhea, stomach pain, and…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1028+ words) A bacterium in the human urinary tract can convert a steroid made by the body into testosterone using two newly identified enzymes. A bacterium that lives inside the human urinary tract can turn a steroid the body already makes into…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1003+ words) Carefully timed sounds can make fluid waves larger in the sleeping brain, giving researchers a new way to study how brain activity and CSF flow are connected. Sleep is often treated as a time when the brain simply shuts down....

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1013+ words) Psychiatrists given the same cases agreed on a diagnosis only 55% of the time, revealing striking differences in how symptoms are interpreted. A psychiatric diagnosis can shape treatment, communication among doctors, and expectations about a person’s condition. For that system to…...