The month of Ramadan, which began last week, is when many Muslims around the world fast from dawn to sunset, refraining from food, drink, and other physical needs as an act of worship and self-discipline.
Category: 8. Health
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The science of Ramadan fasting
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Ivermectin was touted as a cure for COVID, now it's being tested for cancer. But what can it actually treat?
Ivermectin was originally celebrated as a revolutionary treatment for parasitic disease in humans and animals. It has since evolved into a focal point of misinformation and heated debate.
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Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom
In 2022, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs made a big splash after announcing that it had…
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Foundation AI model uses MRI data to predict multiple brain disorders
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are computational models that can learn to identify patterns in data, make accurate predictions or generate content (e.g., texts, images, videos or sound recordings). These models can reliably complete various…
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UK study links higher social deprivation to less diverse gut bacteria
Living in a poorer neighborhood in the UK could impact the makeup of your gut microbiome, potentially leading to worse health. New research, led by King’s College London and the University of Nottingham, found that people living in areas of…
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New record: Laser for surgery cuts bone deeper than before
Lasers cut precisely and without contact—ideal for surgery. The problem is that in hard tissues such as bone, they are too slow and do not cut deep enough. Researchers at the University of Basel have now demonstrated a way to cut much deeper…
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Sleep Helps Clean Neuronal Houses
Researchers are getting closer to an answer for the question of why we and os many organisms sleep. For many years, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Amita Sehgal and her team have studied the…
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Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences
The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. has been escalating, with sharp increases since 2021 and with each consecutive year. Kansas dealt the most…
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Beyond amyloid plaques: AI reveals hidden chemical changes across the Alzheimer’s brain
Researchers at Rice University have produced the first comprehensive, label free molecular atlas of the Alzheimer’s brain in an animal model. The work offers a deeper look at how the disease begins and spreads. Alzheimer’s claims more lives each…
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Among Jesse Jackson’s Key Legacies Was Raising HIV/AIDS Awareness
The Reverend Jesse Jackson chats with President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office, Feb. 25. 1987.
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Reverend Jesse Jackson died last month. He was one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Among his…
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