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Study: Obesity May Promote Breast and Pancreatic Cancer
More than half of patients with breast or pancreatic cancer are overweight, and a new study out of Massachusetts General Hospital may explain why. A […]
Study: Are Dementia Rates Dropping?
A new study from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) says incidence of dementia may actually be declining. Many widely disseminated estimates have shown rates […]
Poor Fitness in Middle Age May Lead to a Smaller Brain, Study Says
Need another reason to care about fitness? A new Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study has some pretty motivating advice: Keep exercising so that your […]
Mass General Study Finds a New Way to Use Poop Pills
Poop pills are back, everybody. Last month, we reported on an upcoming Massachusetts General Hospital study that’s trying to determine whether freeze-dried poop pills can help obese […]
Dana-Farber Aims to Reduce Overtreatment of DCIS Breast Cancer
For women with a certain type of breast cancer, the best treatment may be no treatment at all. Each year, around 60,000 people in the […]
Tufts Study Says Late-in-Life Exercise May Improve Health
Several recent studies have linked young adulthood exercise and nutrition to better life-long health. A study from Tufts University, however, says the onus isn’t only on the young. […]
Could Your Tanning Habit Be a Sign of Psychiatric Disorders?
You may be hiding more than your natural skin tone under that fake tan. According to a research letter published Wednesday in JAMA Dermatology, a tanning […]
Northeastern Research May Lead to New PTSD Treatments
Fight or flight? Flee or freeze? You might think that kind of split-second decision making depends upon the individual. Northeastern research, however, found distinct patterns […]
NFL Great Ken Stabler Had Brain Disease CTE, BU Says
Boston University researchers have posthumously diagnosed another NFL player, quarterback Ken Stabler, with the degenerative brain disease CTE. Stabler died of colon cancer last summer, […]
Soy May Offset BPA’s Effects on Fertility, Study Finds
Women trying to get pregnant may want to change their lunch orders, according to a new study. Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of […]
Eating Well Now May Prevent Breast Cancer Later, Study Finds
For many young adults, health problems seem like something to deal with in the far-off future. But a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan […]
There’s a New Sunscreen That Boosts Vitamin D Production
A photo posted by Solar D Sunscreen (@solardsunscreen) on Sep 13, 2015 at 3:37pm PDT Vitamin D is indisputably important. Deficiencies have been linked to […]
There May Be a Way to Stop Melanoma Before It Begins
A group of Boston Children’s Hospital researchers just accomplished a medical first: watching melanoma develop, starting from the very first cell. “An important mystery has […]
Study Details New Information About the Biology of Schizophrenia
Psychiatric disorders are notoriously poorly understood. Despite the fact that 13.6 million Americans live with a serious mental illness, concrete information about the biology of […]
Researchers May Be Getting Closer to a Diabetes Cure
A scientific breakthrough from MIT, Harvard, Boston Children’s Hospital, Joslin Diabetes Center, and UMass Medical School could put a cure for type 1 diabetes within […]