A large, long-term study reveals that dealing with stress during middle age may trigger lasting physiological brain changes, increasing the risk of developing dementia later in life. This finding comes from the Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden, which started in 1968 and followed over 800 Swedish women for around 40 years. Results of the study were published online in the journal BMJ Open. Researchers from the study looked at previous studies showing how stress can cause both structural and functional brain damage, as well as promote inflammation...
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A new study suggests that the total sleep duration in autistic kids is shorter and punctuated by more frequent waking at night compared to their non-autistic peers and the poor quality of sleep may affect their daytime learning and behavior. Disrupted sleep patterns have been linked to autism before, but the quality of the evidence accumulated to date has often been compromised by small sample size, lack of agreed definitions, and poor comparability of study participants. ...
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Researchers at Penn Medicine have found that intensive care units (ICUs) that are under more strain due to heavy intake of patients often discharge patients more quickly, though without adversely affecting patient outcomes, than when they do not feel such capacity strain, leading to the conclusion that the low-value extensions of ICU stays are minimized, a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reveals. An expected growth in the number of patients ...
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An observational study has found that using estradiol by post menopausal women leads to lower risk of developing blood clots in leg veins (deep vein thrombosis) and clots in the lungs (pulmonary emboli) compared to use of conjugated equine estrogens. According to a joint University of Washington (UW)-Group Health study in iJAMA Internal Medicine/i, women patients of Group Heath who were prescribed a generic version of estradiol-a bio-equivalent estrogen-experienced ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that it has sold two thrombosis brands and a French plant to South African company Aspen for 700 million. "GSK today announced it has reached agreement to sell its thrombosis brands, Arixtra and Fraxiparine, and the Notre-Dame de Bondeville manufacturing site to The Aspen Group," said a statement. "The agreement is a further example of GSK's commitment to increase focus on products with the most growth potential," it ...
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