Deep brain stimulation (DBS) may help control symptoms of binge-eating disorder and encourage weight loss. The corresponding study was published in Nature Medicine. Binge-eating disorder (BED) is characterized by frequent consumption of unusually large amounts of food and a feeling of lack of control when eating. It is the most common eating disorder in the
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COVID-19 has been harmful to many aspects of human health. Recent research has highlighted how much more likely people are to have a heart attack or stroke in the years after recovering from COVID-19. Scientists are also working to learn more about long COVID, which has impacted millions of people, leaving many of them unable to work
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Myopia, also known as nearsightedness, is a common vision condition in which objects far away appear blurry. Myopia occurs when the shape of your eye causes light rays to refract incorrectly, resulting in out of focus images. Nearsightedness often begins in childhood and adolescence. It typically occurs first around the age of 6 and worsens
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Almost 8 billion people live in the world today, so there are bound to be strangers who look just like each other. While various analyses have suggested that we don’t all have an exact twin somewhere out there, many people do have a doppelgänger. As social media use and picture sharing has exploded in popularity, more
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Anywhere from 200 to 1,000 species of bacteria reside in the human gut microbiome, and researchers have been trying to decipher how they are all linked to human health. There is tremendous complexity in the gut, but some connections have been identified. New research has found that gut bacteria can use cholesterol from the diet to
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The overall risk of developing cancer is about the same for men and women (40.2% and 38.5%, respectively). However, when excluding sex-specific cancers (like ovarian and testicular cancers), cancer risk becomes significantly higher in men than women, a detail that scientists have recognized for years. In fact, when considering cancers that develop in anatomic sites shared by
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A recent real-world study published in Frontiers in Nutrition has confirmed that cocoa flavanols can reduce blood pressure and arterial stiffness, but only in people who already have elevated levels. Cocoa flavanols have been previously shown to decrease blood pressure and arterial stiffness, but the effect has only been observed in a laboratory setting. This was the first study
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The Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP), with the support of Ploughshares Fund, has established the Emergency Fellowship Programme – Ukraine (EFPU). The programme was established in response to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, in an effort to sustain the engagement of affected scholars and experts on nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament issues and support their
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We are delighted to invite you to a next round of the Virtual Academy on #ScienceManagement. The series of three workshops is jointly organized by the Netzwerk Wissenschaftsmanagement (NWM Germany) and the Professional Network of Research and HE Managers (PNRM UKRAINE). The series addresses science managers in both #Ukraine and #Germany and aims to foster international exchange, mutual learning and #networking between the
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