Personality disorders occupy a particularly tricky corner of the already challenging world of mental illness. They’re hard to diagnose, even harder to treat, and stereotypes mean you have to wade through extensive misinformation and bigotry. Early identification remains one of the best hopes of effective treatment, and because signs often first appear in adolescence, you […]
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Your resting heart rate isn’t traditionally something that you need a lot of technology to understand. Just put two fingers on your neck where you can feel your pulse and count the beats for a whole minute. It may not sound as fancy as a device that counts your steps for you or measures your
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If there are two things that are likely to inspire dire warnings about the state of nutrition, it’s the rise of ultra-processed food and the general poor state of our children’s diets. What happens when those two things are put together is clearly important, and a new study has highlighted some possible risks of this
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When it comes to aches and injuries, the human back sometimes seems to be in a category of its own. It doesn’t take much; just lying in bed slightly wrong or standing not quite right can be enough to end up in agony. What causes all this pain, and is there anything you can do
Inflammation is a word that gets thrown around a lot when we talk about aging. It can be a destructive force, wearing down the body until it no longer works properly. It’s also an essential part of fighting off infection and healing from injury. That means that being able to assess our levels of inflammation
AI is rapidly spreading into every aspect of healthcare. Now Rubedo Life Sciences has announced that its AI platform has allowed for the development of a new drug that can treat dermatological conditions. Aging has a pretty profound impact on skin, and like the rest of the body, it can suffer from age-related inflammation. This
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We know dementia is a condition affecting the brain, right? It makes a lot of sense that it’s caused by neurons malfunctioning, but neurons aren’t the only cells in the brain. Although they are important, we can’t dismiss the astrocytes that sit alongside them. New research is starting to explore just what the relationship may
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There are a lot of supplements on the market claiming to do all kinds of wonderful things. If you’re not from a scientific background, it’s very difficult to know if those claims are actually plausible, especially when supplements don’t face the same kind of regulation as medical drugs. Ethical companies will still make sure that
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