THURSDAY, May 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Stuttering is a neurological condition, not a psychological one, and scientists in Finland now believe they’ve found the disrupted network in the brain that may cause it. “These findings explain well-known features of stuttering, such as the motor difficulties in speech production andContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Cancer patients receive less effective treatment at hospitals that mainly serve minority communities, a new study shows. More than 9% of cancer patients are treated at hospitals where a significant percentage of patients are from minority groups, researchers say. Those patients are lessContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A “Third Thumb” — a robotic, prosthetic extra thumb — is easy to use and can help folks grab and tote more objects, a new study says. Hundreds of diverse test subjects at a science exhibition were able to figure out the extraContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The old joke holds that fatherhood causes a man’s hair to go prematurely gray. Whether or not that’s true, being a father does appear to put men at greater risk of poor heart health later in life, a new study finds. Dads tendedContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Folks typically think of heart disease as a byproduct of modern fast-food living, but a new study shows the condition has plagued humanity for centuries. More than a third (37%) of 237 adult mummies from seven different cultures spanning more than 4,000 yearsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Bird flu has been detected for the first time in alpacas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday. The animals that tested positive were on a farm in Idaho where poultry that had tested positive for the H5N1 virus were culled inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A bilingual brain implant has allowed a stroke survivor to communicate in both Spanish and English, scientists report. Turning to an AI method known as a neural network, researchers trained the patient’s implant to decode words based on the brain activity produced whenContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Feeding kids peanuts early in childhood can drastically reduce their risk of developing a peanut allergy, a new clinical trial reports. Children regularly fed peanut products from infancy to age 5 had a 71% lower rate of peanut allergies by the time theyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Research suggests that tattoo ink spurs inflammatory changes that might contribute to the development of lymphoma. The findings are early, however, and more study must be done to confirm any links between tattooing and the blood cancer, Swedish researchers stressed. “People will likelyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Near-infrared light pulsing into a person’s skull appears to boost healing in patients with a severe concussion, a new study finds. Patients who wore a helmet emitting near-infrared light displayed a greater change in connectivity between seven different pairs of brain regions, researchersContinue Reading