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Medical Notes: Your Ancestors Are Making You Sick, Drinking Water May Be Causing Early Menopause, and How Movement Improves Memory

Can obesity treatment also help your brain? Experts estimate that in the next ten years, 50 percent of American adults will be diagnosed with obesity, a disease that’s been linked to dementia and cognitive impairment. Research in the Journal of Nutrition, …
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Medical Notes: 2024 Is The Year of Cancer, IBS May Be A Symptom of Something Worse, and Parkinson’s Disease Is Getting a Marketing Makeover

Will 2024 be the year of cancer? The American Cancer Society’s annual cancer statistics report estimates that the U.S. will have more than two million new cases this year. The trend is expected to include breast, kidney, and pancreatic cancers, and we’ll …
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Medical Notes: Why Grocery Taxes May Be Good For Us, The World’s First Partial Heart Transplant, and a New Treatment For Cancer

The world’s first partial heart transplant is inspiring hope In the Spring of 2022, surgeons performed the surgery on an infant who needed a valve replacement. The traditional method of using non-living valves would’ve required multiple, high-risk …
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Medical Notes: Trauma Shrinks Your Brain, Restoring Movement To Paralyzed Limbs, And Why Rates of Poverty Have Declined

Does trauma shrink your brain? The cerebellum is a part of the brain that influences emotion, memory, movement, and balance. A new study in Molecular Psychiatry has discovered that the cerebellums in people with PTSD are two percent smaller than in …
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