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Why Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Your Brain Function

Daylight saving time is often viewed as a minor inconvenience. Twice a year, millions of people adjust their clocks by one hour and then...

Creating a Healthier Home: Simple Steps to Reduce Everyday Exposures

Home is where we eat, sleep, relax, and spend time with family. It’s where children grow and develop. Because we spend so much time...

Breast Cancer Breakthrough Could Spare Patients from Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy has been a standard part of breast cancer treatment for decades. It has helped countless patients survive the disease, but it is also...

An Existing Drug Can Be a Powerful Treatment for Burn Wounds

When someone suffers a serious burn, healing can be a long and difficult journey. Severe burns damage not only the outer layer of skin...

Jupiter’s giant shockwave reveals how particles reach near-light speed

Scientists studying Jupiter have captured electrons in the act of being accelerated to extremely high speeds, offering new clues about one of the universe's...

Blood Test May Predict Multiple Sclerosis More Than 10 Years Early

Multiple sclerosis, often called MS, is a long-term disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. It occurs when the body's immune system mistakenly...

New Drug Combo May Help Treat Advanced Kidney Cancer

Kidney cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting adults, and the most common form is called clear cell renal cell carcinoma, often...

Common Flu Drugs May Slow Cognitive Decline

People living with HIV are now living much longer than they did in the past, thanks to highly effective antiretroviral treatments. These medicines can keep...

EMT instructor’s fake chest pain becomes real cardiac arrest. The class uses CPR and...

The EMT Fundamentals class at Fox Valley Technical College was winding down when lead instructor Traci Blondeau asked fellow instructor Karl Arps to act...

How Blood Pressure Drugs Affect Kidney Health in Diabetes

For people living with type 2 diabetes, protecting kidney health is often a lifelong challenge. Diabetes is one of the leading causes of chronic kidney...

Good Habits May Lower Dementia Risk—But Not for Everyone

Dementia is becoming one of the biggest health challenges facing the world. Experts estimate that the number of people living with dementia could nearly...

AI May Predict Heart and Kidney Disease from Eye Scans

Eye exams are becoming much more powerful than many people realize. Modern eye clinics now use advanced imaging technology that allows doctors to look...

Not All Women with Heart Rhythm Disease Face Higher Stroke Risk

For many years, doctors have believed that women with atrial fibrillation, often called AFib, automatically face a higher risk of stroke than men. This belief...

A Simple Sitting Position May Help You Survive in a Heart Attack

A heart attack is one of the most serious medical emergencies a person can experience. It often happens without warning and can quickly become...

Common Vitamin Can Help Immune System Fight Tough Blood Cancers

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death around the world and remains one of the most challenging diseases to treat. Although treatments such...

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This low-cost printed sensor could transform smart packaging and medical devices

Magnetic field sensors are everywhere in modern life, even though most people never notice them. These tiny electronic components help detect movement, position, and distance,...

Scientists get their best-ever look at distant planet’s surface

Astronomers have found thousands of worlds in faraway star systems, but one of the questions that’s been hardest to answer is the one that...

AI patch on your skin could act like a personal doctor—No Internet needed

A team of researchers has created a soft, stretchable electronic patch that can run artificial intelligence (AI) directly on the human body without needing...

Is extracting oxygen from lunar soil the future of space exploration

A new race to the moon is emerging between the United States and China. Unlike fifty years ago, the goal is no longer just about...

Scientists develop cleaner, cheaper way to get lithium from hard rock

Lithium is one of the world's most important minerals because it is used in rechargeable batteries that power electric vehicles, smartphones, laptops, and energy...