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    Why Scientists Are Linking More Diseases to Light at Night

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    Marta Zaraska
    Publish date: October 24, 2024

    Light during sleep has been linked to diabetes, CV disease, strokes, or brain aneurysms.

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    The Appendix: Is It ’Useless,’ or a Safe House and Immune Training Ground?

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    Marta Zaraska
    Publish date: June 10, 2024

    It turns out the appendix, as easy to dismiss as it is to remove, may have a vital purpose after all, including protecting us from...

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    MDMA therapy for loneliness? Researchers say it could work

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    Marta Zaraska
    Publish date: December 6, 2023

    MDMA “led to a robust increase in feelings of connection” among people socializing in a controlled setting.

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    Unlocking the riddle of REM sleep

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    Marta Zaraska
    Publish date: June 6, 2023

    In general, as long as you get enough sleep in the first place, you will get enough REM. “You can’t control the amount of REM sleep you have.”

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    The truth about the ‘happy hormone’: Why we shouldn’t mess with dopamine

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    Marta Zaraska
    Publish date: October 11, 2022

    Since its first synthesis in the early 20th century, dopamine has often been misunderstood and oversimplified – and it seems the story is...

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    Limiting antibiotic overprescription in pandemics: New guidelines

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    Marta Zaraska
    Publish date: September 22, 2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic brought an alarming increase in antimicrobial resistance in hospitals, with infections and deaths caused by resistant...

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    Ancient human teeth revise the history of microbial evolution

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    Marta Zaraska
    Publish date: June 16, 2022

    Here was the DNA of Yersinia pestis lodged in the teeth of two farmers, a woman and a man, who died in Scandinavia before the plague’s...

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    Dracunculiasis – guinea worm disease – is close to eradication. But will we ever reach the finish line?

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    Marta Zaraska
    Publish date: December 9, 2021

    The dracunculiasis’ impact on work and earning capacity is so profound, in fact, that in Mali the infliction is...

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    The role of probiotics in mental health

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    Marta Zaraska
    Publish date: September 17, 2021

    The evidence for the effects of probiotics so far is the strongest for depression, says Viktoriya Nikolova, of Kings College London.

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