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Intranasal oxytocin for autism promising – then came the data
Perhaps the most important take-away from the study is that even if it’s safe, intranasal oxytocin as it is currently used doesn’t work and...
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Moms’ cannabis use in pregnancy tied to anxiety and hyperactivity in offspring
May have epigenetic immunomodulatory effects affecting neurodevelopment
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Erenumab beats topiramate for migraine in first head-to-head trial
The findings suggest that erenumab may help overcome longstanding issues with migraine medication adherence.
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Coffee or tea? Drinking both tied to lower stroke, dementia risk
Drinking coffee or tea reduces the risk for stroke and dementia. But drinking both reduces stroke risk by 30% and dementia risk by 28%.
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Pandemic stresses harder on physician moms than physician dads: Study
Study results suggest that the pandemic has increased gender disparity and added disproportionately to the burden of female physicians.
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Substantial declines in mortality for most cancers
“The cancer mortality rate has reduced considerably since 1971 overall and for most cancer sites because of improvements in prevention, early...
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Do adolescents develop CNS autoimmunity after COVID-19?
The researchers examined three pediatric patients who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 and, over a period of 5 months in 2020, were admitted to the...
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Alopecia tied to a threefold increased risk for dementia
“AA shares a similar inflammatory signature with dementia and has great psychological impacts that lead to poor social engagement,” lead author Dr...
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Influenza tied to long-term increased risk for Parkinson’s disease
“The infection could be a ‘primer’ or an initial ‘hit’ to the system, maybe setting people up for PD.”
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Managing simple febrile seizures without lumbar puncture safe: 15-year study
Researchers studied evaluation and management before and after AAP’s 2011 simple febrile seizure guidelines and found that limiting diagnostic...
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Sleep time ‘sweet spot’ to slow cognitive decline identified?
The findings suggest that sleep may be a marker for Alzheimer’s disease progression.