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2024 APR 28 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at VerticalNews Health & Science -- Weight training can help reduce body fat and increase muscle strength and mass in older people, contributing to functional autonomy and avoidance of falls and injury. Furthermore, recent studies have shown that it can also benefit the mental health of older people, especially those who suffer from anxiety and depression.   These benefits were confirmed by a study reported in the [...]

2024 JAN 29 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Global Warming Focus -- Analysis of occurrence and co-occurrence patterns shows the highest-risk clusters of chikungunya and zika in Brazil spreading from the Northeast to the Center-West and coastal areas of Sao Paulo state and Rio de Janeiro state in the Southeast between 2018 and 2021, and increasing again in the Northeast between 2019 and 2021. In Brazil overall, spatial variations in the temporal trends for [...]

Sao Paulo, Jan 17: A 30-minute walk at moderate intensity temporarily reduced blood pressure in women with rheumatoid arthritis, not only at rest but also under stress, according to a study. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune inflammatory disease affecting synovial joints and causing pain, swelling, and progressive physical incapacity. People with rheumatoid arthritis also tend to have high blood pressure, and previous research has shown that the risk of death from cardiovascular disease [...]

2023 OCT 8 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at VerticalNews Health -- Electrical signals control a vast number of activities in the human body, from exchanges of messages between brain neurons and stimulation of the heart muscle to the impulses that enable hands and feet to move, among many other examples. To monitor or modulate these signals for medical purposes, a biocompatible and biodegradable optical fiber based on agar, a substance extracted from Gracilaria seaweed, [...]

2023 OCT 1 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA -- An article published in NPJ Aging, a Springer Nature journal, reveals that natural production of auto-antibodies increases with age and that infection by SARS-CoV-2 can exacerbate production of auto-antibodies relating to auto-immune diseases, helping to explain why aging increases the chances of developing severe COVID-19. The study also discovered some of the factors that associate the severe [...]

2023 OCT 1 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at VerticalNews Health -- Acetone is an essential chemical industry input and is used in the manufacturing of a wide array of products, such as adhesives, antibiotics, electronic components, solvents and removers, inks and vitamins, among others. Its production is complex and hazardous. To simplify the process and make it safer and cheaper, researchers in Brazil and Germany have developed an innovative method that uses only light [...]

Byline: The Indian Practitioner Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is still a daunting challenge because of the degree of complexity involved, requiring highly specialized professionals. Autism is a multifactorial neurodevelopment disorder with widely varying symptoms. In the United States, about 1 in 36 children have been diagnosed with ASD, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and yet there are no biochemical markers to identify it with precision. A [...]

2023 SEP 10 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at VerticalNews Health -- Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) consists of multiple episodes of partial or complete closure of the upper airway that occur during sleep, leading to breathing cessation lasting more than ten seconds and sometimes even several minutes, followed by arousals and deep breathing. Symptoms include lack of concentration, fatigue and excessive daytime sleepiness, all of which lower the quality of life and can be [...]

2023 AUG 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Pediatrics Week -- The first case of concomitant visceral leishmaniasis and non-ulcerated cutaneous leishmaniasis in the same patient has been reported recently by researchers at the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar) in Sao Paulo state, Brazil, in an article published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. The study was funded by FAPESP and draws attention to novel aspects of a disease that is advancing [...]