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More than half a million global stroke deaths may be tied to climate change

A changing climate may be linked to growing death and disability from stroke in regions around the world, according to a new study. Researchers found over three decades that non-optimal temperatures, those above or below temperatures associated with the lowest death rates, were increasingly linked t...
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Revascularization enhances quality of life for patients with chronic limb threatening ischemia

Over 200 million people around the world experience peripheral artery disease (PAD) -- a condition caused by the narrowing of the blood vessels from the heart to the lower limbs that leads to pain when walking -- and for roughly 1-in-10 this advances to chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), an a...
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New technique sheds light on memory and learning

The findings may also have implications for learning and memory disorders, including Fragile X syndrome.
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Tiny brain bubbles carry complete codes

Scientists discovered that the biological instructions within these vesicles differed significantly in postmortem brain samples donated from patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
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New atlas of mRNA variants captures inner workings of the brain

Investigators have assembled the most comprehensive atlas to date of messenger RNA (mRNA) variants in the mouse and human brain. The atlas is an important new resource in understanding brain development, neuron specialization and other brain functions.
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New study highlights the benefit of touch on mental and physical health

Through a large-scale analysis, researchers have uncovered the ways in which consensual touch can benefit a person's physical and mental wellbeing.
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Disparities in sleep health and insomnia may begin at a young age

Children and teens from racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by persistent insomnia symptoms that begin in childhood and continue through young adulthood, according to a new study. This study is one of the first to look at how childhood insomnia ...
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Preventive angioplasty does not improve prognosis

For heart attack patients, treating only the coronary artery that caused the infarction works just as well as preventive balloon dilation of the other coronary arteries, according to a new large study.

Stopping aspirin one month after coronary stenting procedures significantly reduces bleeding complications in heart attack patients, study suggests

New research could change standard-of-care guidelines to improve outcomes for heart attack patients after coronary stenting procedures.

Successful 'first in human' clinical trial of pioneering guidance for heart bypass surgery

Trial findings suggest that the less invasive approach to heart bypass surgery offers comparable safety and efficacy to established methods and that safety issues inherent to invasive catheterisation investigation can be replaced by a non-invasive technique using CT scan imaging and AI-powered blood...
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