Vitamins and Minerals for Older Adults
Vitamins and minerals are two of the main types of nutrients that your body needs to survive and stay healthy. Find information on some of the essential vitamins recommended for older adults and...
Placenta plays active part in transferring vitamin D to fetus during pregnancy — ScienceDaily
Scientists have shed new light on the role of the placenta in managing the relationships between maternal vitamin D and fetal development, according to a study published today in eLife.
The findings demonstrate a complex...
Treating heart attacks with a medium chain fatty acid — ScienceDaily
A medium-chain fatty acid found in energy drinks might one day help protect against heart attack injuries.
"Heart attacks are still a leading cause of death worldwide, that often come with devastating complications," said Zhong...
Nordic diet lowers cholesterol and blood sugar – even if you don’t lose weight...
Berries, veggies, fish, whole grains and rapeseed oil. These are the main ingredients of the Nordic diet concept that, for the past decade, have been recognized as extremely healthy, tasty and sustainable. The diet...
A new study relates liquid fructose intake to fatty liver disease — ScienceDaily
A high-fat diet is not enough to cause short-term fatty liver disease. However, if this diet is combined with the intake of beverages sweetened with liquid fructose, the accumulation of fats in the liver...
Knowing how binding mechanism works could aid in drug design — ScienceDaily
Scientists have discovered that a human receptor protein has the ability to detect individual amino acids in exactly the same way that bacteria do.
The finding could lead to enhancements of drugs derived from the...
The association between green space and oxidative stress was not found to be related...
A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has analysed, for the first time, the relationship between exposure to different green spaces and...
New research reveals Neem-based drugs may help fight future coronavirus variants — ScienceDaily
Extract from the bark of the Neem tree may help treat and reduce the spread of coronavirus, according to a new study led by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and...
Study questions the role of vitamin D2 in human health but its sibling, vitamin...
New research has found significant differences between the two types of vitamin D, with vitamin D2 having a questionable impact on human health. However, the study found that vitamin D3 could balance people's immune...
Antibacterial bioactive glass doubles down on microbial resistance to antibiotics — ScienceDaily
Infections linked to medical devices such as catheters, dental implants, orthopaedics and wound dressings could be dramatically reduced using a simple technique, according to new research.
Scientists at Aston University have found a way to...
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Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to...
A new USC-led study on rats that feasted on a high-fat, sugary diet raises the possibility that a junk food-filled diet in teens may...
Repurposing non-pharmacological interventions for Alzheimer’s disease through link prediction on biomedical literature
The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
Degenerative Dementias and Their Medical Care in the Movies
Compared with other neurologic problems, few films have been dedicated to degenerative dementia. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review about the...