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Teaching Teens to Manage Emotions May Help Prevent Weight Regain, Randomized Trial Finds
Key Takeaways A randomized clinical trial involving 166 adolescents and their parents found that adding emotional-skills training to family-based weight treatment helped teenagers maintain more of their initial weight loss. Both treatment groups achieved similar weight…
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Prickly Pear Fruit Consumption Reduces Inflammatory Biomarkers in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Crossover Trial
Key Takeaways A randomized crossover trial involving 28 healthy adults found that eating 400 grams of prickly pear fruit pulp daily for two weeks reduced several inflammatory biomarkers compared with a diet containing other fresh fruits. Researchers reported reductions in…
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Intensive Weight Loss vs. Knee Arthroplasty in Severe Knee Osteoarthritis: Evidence From the INKA Randomized Trial
Weight loss is an important treatment for knee osteoarthritis in people living with overweight or obesity. It can reduce joint load, improve metabolic health and help some patients move with less pain. But can intensive weight loss provide the same relief as knee replacement…
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Smartwatch for Childhood Brain Tumor Survivors Shows High Wearability in Small Dutch Pilot Study
Key Takeaways Researchers in the Netherlands developed a wearable device called the EndoWatch to help monitor health problems associated with hypothalamic dysfunction in survivors of childhood brain tumors. Ten survivors, including eight children and two adults, tested the first…
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Cervical Cancer Survivors Faced Years of Pelvic Pain After Radiation-Related Fractures, Israeli Study Finds
Key Takeaways An Israeli study of 153 patients treated with chemotherapy and radiation for cervical cancer found that 18 patients (11.8%) developed imaging-confirmed pelvic insufficiency fractures. Most fractures were diagnosed within two years of treatment, with a median time…
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Baclofen, a Cheap, Decades-Old Drug, Reveals Unexpected Brain Response in Heavy Drinkers
Key Takeaways A randomized study involving 31 adults found that heavy drinkers responded differently to a higher dose of baclofen, an inexpensive generic muscle relaxant used for decades. At 30 milligrams, baclofen significantly increased a measure of brain inhibition in both…
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Not All Ultra-Processed Foods Were Linked to Higher Colorectal Cancer Risk in Study of 461,000 Adults
Key Takeaways A study of 461,682 US adults found no statistically significant association between total ultra-processed food consumption and colorectal cancer incidence. During a median follow-up of 18.8 years, researchers documented 10,075 colorectal cancer cases. Higher…
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Severe Obesity Linked to Higher Asthma Odds in Study of More Than 600,000 Israeli Teenagers
Key Takeaways A study involving 603,552 Israeli adolescents found that higher body weight categories were associated with greater odds of asthma. Among Arab Israeli adolescents with class 3 obesity, the adjusted odds of asthma were 52% higher than among those with normal weight.…
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31.4% of Young Women vs. 11.4% of Young Men Identify as LGBTQ+: What It Could Mean for Heterosexual Dating
Key Takeaways Gallup’s 2025 U.S. survey found that 31.4% of women ages 18–29 identified as LGBTQ+, compared with 11.4% of men in the same age group. The 20-percentage-point difference is driven largely by higher bisexual identification among women, which does not necessarily…
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PTSD, Depression, and Anxiety Rose Sharply After October 7 Before Declining Over 27 Months, Israeli Study Finds
Key Takeaways A longitudinal study of 680 Israeli adults documented sharp increases in probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety following the October 7, 2023 attacks, followed by substantial declines over 27 months. Probable PTSD increased from…
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52% of Israelis Surveyed Willing to Donate Biological Samples for Medical Research
Key Takeaways A survey of 1,607 Israeli adults found that 52% were willing to donate biological samples and associated information for medical research. Among those willing to donate, 84.6% were also prepared to link their samples to medical records, potentially helping…
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Israeli Study Links Non-Fluoridated Water to Higher Dental Treatment Burden in Disadvantaged Children
Key Takeaways A new retrospective study examined dental treatment records for approximately 28,000 Israeli 12-year-olds from 2014 through 2022, spanning the end of mandatory community water fluoridation. Children in low-socioeconomic-status communities without fluoridated water…
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Drivers Are Less Likely to Honk at Expensive Cars, While Luxury Vehicle Drivers Are More Likely to Violate Right-of-Way Rules
Key Takeaways A 1968 field experiment found that 84% of drivers honked when blocked by a lower-status car, compared with 50% when blocked by a luxury vehicle. Later research examined the opposite question: whether people driving higher-status vehicles behave differently toward…
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Maternal Health Conditions and Offspring Autism: Most Associations Were Similar Across Racial and Ethnic Groups
Key Takeaways A Kaiser Permanente Northern California cohort of 224,353 children found that associations between recorded maternal diagnoses and offspring autism were generally similar across maternal racial and ethnic groups. Four of 25 recorded maternal diagnoses, overweight…
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Association of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Genetic Liability With Late-Life Cognitive Impairment in 187,341 Adults
Key Takeaways In a large U.S. All of Us cohort, adults with a recorded ADHD diagnosis had a higher rate of subsequently recorded mild cognitive impairment or dementia than adults without a recorded ADHD diagnosis. Among 187,341 adults aged 50 or older, 6.7% of those with ADHD…
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Metformin Use During Pregnancy Was Not Linked to Developmental Problems at School Entry in Study of 177,000 Children
Key Takeaways A population-level Australian cohort study of 177,409 children found no evidence that metformin exposure during pregnancy was associated with greater developmental vulnerability at school entry after researchers adjusted for major differences between exposed and…
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Longer Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Associated With Lower Late-Postpartum Overdose or Death Risk
Key Takeaways A study of 9,360 pregnancies among Tennessee Medicaid beneficiaries with opioid use disorder found that a greater number of days of dispensed medication around pregnancy and early postpartum was associated with a lower risk of overdose or death later in the first…
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More Missing Teeth Are Associated With Poorer Kidney Function, Particularly Among Women
Key Takeaways A new cross-sectional analysis of 17,833 NHANES participants older than 40 linked greater tooth loss with poorer kidney function, but the clearest adjusted association appeared among women. Women in the highest tooth-loss quartile had 37.9% higher adjusted odds of…
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Robotic Knee Replacement Improves Alignment and Implant Positioning but Shows No Early Advantage in Pain or Function
Key Takeaways In a randomized controlled trial, robotic-assisted total knee replacement produced more accurate alignment on several radiographic measures than conventional surgery. Better technical precision did not translate into significantly better pain, knee function or…
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Urine Drug Test Adulteration: How Laboratories Detect Altered and Synthetic Samples
Key Takeaways Urine drug testing can involve two separate questions: whether drugs or their metabolites are present and whether the specimen itself appears valid. Specimen validity testing can evaluate characteristics such as creatinine, specific gravity, pH, collection…