Scientists found a blood signature of ultra-processed diets, and it explained about half of their link to heart disease

Ultra-processed food has been linked to heart disease and type 2 diabetes in study after study, but how it does the damage is unclear. Researchers at University College London and…

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Doctors still advise healthy people against this Alzheimer’s blood test, even though at its highest levels it predicted a 78% chance of decline in 10 years

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease have moved from research labs toward the clinic, and one has already received clearance from US regulators.…

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Scientists found that when chronic back pain flares, the brain switches on the network tied to your sense of self, the opposite of what ordinary pain does

Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and for many people it never fully goes away. Researchers at UC…

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People who got less than 42 minutes of bright daylight a day had a higher risk of dementia, and it predicted risk better than six well-known risk factors

Most adults spend their days indoors, where light levels are a small fraction of what they get outside, even on a cloudy…

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Scientists estimated that about 3 in 4 former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 had CTE, after correcting for which families donate brains

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a brain disease linked to repeated hits to the head, and it can only be confirmed by examining the brain after death. Almost every…

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Scientists found a blood signature of ultra-processed diets, and it explained about half of their link to heart disease

Doctors still advise healthy people against this Alzheimer’s blood test, even though at its highest levels it predicted a 78% chance of decline in 10 years

Scientists found that when chronic back pain flares, the brain switches on the network tied to your sense of self, the opposite of what ordinary pain does

People who got less than 42 minutes of bright daylight a day had a higher risk of dementia, and it predicted risk better than six well-known risk factors

Scientists estimated that about 3 in 4 former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 had CTE, after correcting for which families donate brains

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