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Dec 2025
Researchers explore how the visual brain system recovers following traumatic injury
The brain shows a capacity to recover from traumatic injury, which somewhat contradicts the widely accepted idea that neurons do not regenerate.
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Dec 2025
Smartwatch alerts help parents manage children's tantrums
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a smartwatch-based alert system that signals parents at the earliest signs of a tantrum in children with emotional and behavioral disorders - prompting them to intervene before it intensifies.
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Dec 2025
Breast cancer disrupts stress hormone rhythms in the brain
"The brain is an exquisite sensor of what's going on in your body," says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger. "But it requires balance. Neurons need to be active or inactive at the right times. If that rhythm goes out of sync even a little bit, it can change the function of the entire brain."
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Dec 2025
Researchers uncover how Bartonella causes deadly Oroya fever
The so-called "Oroya fever" is an extremely severe infectious disease, yet it is classified among the so-called neglected tropical diseases.
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Dec 2025
ADHD linked to higher risk of criminal convictions and family patterns
A largescale, comprehensive study has found that individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at increased risk of being convicted of crimes compared to those without ADHD, and that this association extends to their relatives, suggesting shared familial factors such as genetics and environmental conditions.
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Dec 2025
Air pollution and immune changes could trigger autoimmune conditions
A new study has linked air pollution exposure and immune-system changes that often precede the onset of autoimmune diseases.
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Dec 2025
Advances in delivering oxygen-sensitive gut bacteria improve microbial therapies
Recent research has identified practical ways to protect and deliver oxygen-sensitive gut bacteria for a path toward safer, standardized microbial therapies that could reduce reliance on donor-based faecal microbiota transplants.
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Dec 2025
Researchers block virus entry by targeting key protein interaction
Washington State University researchers have found a way to modulate a common virus protein to prevent viruses from entering cells where it can cause illness, a discovery that could someday lead to new antiviral treatments.
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Dec 2025
Canada's reduced Global Fund pledge threatens health at home and abroad
Canada should rethink its reduced pledge to the Global Fund to protect the health of people in Canada as well as around the globe, argue authors in an editorial published in CMAJ.
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Dec 2025
New framework tracks response to anti-amyloid therapies in Alzheimer's
In the last few years, progress has been made in the fight against Alzheimer's disease with a class of therapies called anti-amyloid antibodies (anti-Aβ).
