Health

In the central district of Beijing, trees are everywhere: in parks, along roads and in courtyards inside people’s homes. Many trees have been planted only in recent decades. Source link

As immigrants in southeastern Louisiana and Mississippi were preparing for this month’s U.S. Homeland Security operation, Cristian Rosales-Fajardo got a nervous call from a friend. Source link

A large Swedish study reported a lower risk of dementia in middle-aged and older adults who consumed higher amounts of full-fat cheese and cream. The findings may seem welcome news but they require careful interpretation. Source link

The festive season is known to eliminate good habits like good eating habits and exercise. Normal routines are lost, days become less organized, and exercise habits may slip away. The solution to staying active isn’t more willpower, but better planning. Research shows that simple, practical strategies can help people stay active in the run up…

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could change the way researchers study “interactions” between cells inside the body. The tools, called SCCIGEN and QuadST, help scientists understand where cells are located in tissues and how they communicate through genetic activity and chemical signals. Source link

Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes including cell loss can begin early in life, a drug long accepted for other conditions can be repurposed to slow this damage, offering new hope for people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other cognition problems. Source link

For millions of Americans who purchase Affordable Care Act insurance, there is still time left to enroll in 2026. But the cost has increased more than expected due to increase in premiums and expiry of enhanced tax subsidies. Source link

When our immune system’s killer T cells divide, they typically undergo asymmetric cell division (ACD): each daughter cell inherits different cellular components, leading the cells to different fates – one cell becomes a short-term fighter called an effector T cell, the other cell becomes a long-term memory T cell. Source link

Real estate investment trust (REIT)-acquired U.S. hospitals were associated with a greater risk of bankruptcy or closure than non-REIT-acquired hospitals, according to a new study led by researchers at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. The findings also showed that REIT acquisitions of hospitals had no significant impact on quality of care or…

Persistent shortness of breath, a symptom often ignored by health care systems, is linked to longer hospital stays on already overwhelmed health care resources, new research from Flinders University says. Source link