Archives for: January 2024
New Blood Test Could Help Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease Before Symptoms Appear
January 31st, 2024Testing a person’s blood for a certain type of protein called phosphorylated tau or p-tau could be used to screen for Alzheimer’s disease with “high accuracy” even before symptoms begin to show, a new study suggests.
Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease… more »
Exposure Therapy Could Help More Than One Phobia
January 24th, 2024Folks who use exposure therapy to overcome a single phobia can find themselves less afraid of other things, according to the results of a new study.
Exposure Therapy and Multiple Phobias
Exposure therapy has been proven to be the most effective treatm… more »
Bottled Water Contains Nanoplastics Says Study
January 17th, 2024The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers.
Bottled Water Study
Looking at five samples each of three common bott… more »
Sleep Health in the News
January 10th, 2024Sleep and how it affects peoples’ health has been making headlines. See what researchers have to say about sleep.
Sleep Impacts Emotions
Staying up late, sleeping too little or waking up often can impact a person's emotional health, according to a new… more »
New Melanoma Vaccine to Help Fight Cancer
January 3rd, 2024A new melanoma vaccine has shown it can battle the deadly skin cancer in a new trial.
Vaccine Trial
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer, with melanoma accounting for about one percent of skin cancer cases in the United States. According to t… more »