Many people are using marijuana for medical reasons, and it may provide benefits for some. However, Stanford Medicine experts warn that older adults, in particular, should be mindful of the potential health risks. Eloise Theisen had no plans to…
Category: 8. Health
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Thinking About Marijuana After 65? Doctors Warn of Overlooked Health Risks
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Engineered liver tissue model mimics early metabolic liver disease
More than 100 million people in the United States suffer from metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), characterized by a buildup of fat in the liver. This condition can lead to the development of more…
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LOXL2 deletion triggers TMJ osteoarthritis, while overexpression protects it from NF-κB-induced chondrocyte apoptosis
Aggrecan promoter-specific Loxl2 knockout promotes TMJ-OA in mice
To evaluate whether LOXL2 loss-of-function promotes progressive degenerative changes in the TMJ condylar cartilage, aggrecan promoter-specific tamoxifen-inducible Loxl2 knockout…
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An ensemble machine learning classifier for Parkinson’s disease diagnosis using optical coherence tomography angiography
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Glucose-to-albumin ratio predicts short-term mortality in critically ill patients with acute pancreatitis
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Homocysteine levels and cancer risk in hypertensive adults across MTHFR C677T genotypes
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Wu, Z., Xia,…
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Impact of estrogen receptor expression levels on chemo-responsiveness and prognosis of breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy
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Sørlie, T. et al. Gene expression patterns of breast carcinomas distinguish tumor subclasses with…
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Text-image alignment for ILD imaging: linking CXR evidence to CT quantification
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Knowledge, awareness, and attitude of physical therapists on Alzheimer’s disease in Syria
Hammad, S. H. et al. Sociocultural Insights on Dementia care-giving in Arab and Muslim Communities: the Perspectives of Family care-givers [J] Vol. 44, 357–384 (Ageing & Society, 2024). 2.
Gomez, P. Refugees living with dementia: assessing the…
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Generalisation of automatic tumour segmentation in histopathological whole-slide images across multiple cancer types
Hanna, M. G. et al. Integrating digital pathology into clinical practice. Mod. Pathol. 35, 152–164 (2022).
Rajpurkar, P., Chen, E., Banerjee, O. & Topol, E. J. AI in health and medicine. Nat….
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