If you exercise regularly, you have probably noticed that you increase the effort if you have music playing in the background. Researchers know this as the ergogenic effect; the right music makes you feel less tired and produces a positive…

People who suffer from atopic dermatitis, asthma, or food or environmental allergies are more prone to experiencing eosinophilic esophagitis. Eosinophilic oesophagitis is when the oesophagus – the gullet that carries food from the mouth to the stomach – is inflamed….

Parkinson’s disease: Dr Chris on how to spot early signs Many people are aware of the most common symptoms of Parkinson’s disease – with involuntary shakes, or tremors, a tell-tale sign. Caused by a loss of certain nerve cells in…

A diagnosis of a brain tumor can be frightening. Of the more than 100 types of brain tumors, meningioma and glioblastoma are two of the most common. Dr. Wendy Sherman, a Mayo Clinic neuro-oncologist, explains the differences in these brain…

Follicular helper T cells, or Tfh cells, have a crucial role in immune defense. Without Tfh cells, B cells cannot form germinal center (GC) responses during which high-affinity antibodies are generated. When naïve CD4-positive CD4+ T cells receive news of…

Reviewers’ Notes Bladder cancer has a five-year survival rate of over 80% when detected early, but this rate declines significantly as the disease progresses to advanced stages. In a novel study in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, published by Elsevier,…

Most Canadians now have hybrid immunity against SARS-CoV-2 through natural infection, primarily from the Omicron variant, and vaccination, but seropositivity varies by age and location, research indicates. By March 2023, 76% of the Canadian population had detectable infection-induced antibodies, according…

The National Institutes of Health is releasing a comprehensive dataset that standardizes genomic, proteomic, imaging, and clinical data from individual studies of more than 1,000 tumors across 10 cancer types. Researchers from around the world will be able to use…

Gene therapy might offer a one-time, sustained treatment for patients with serious alcohol addiction, also called alcohol use disorder, according to a new study led by a researcher at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine….

The new generation of safe and effective weight loss drugs seems to have helped boost the US profile of such medications and has fueled interest in nearly half the US adult population. A recent survey of more than 1000 US…