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A new study led by Professor Sayaka Nakamura from Sophia University in Japan and Professor Shiko Maruyama from Jinan University in China published in the journal Health Economics reveals the significant positive impact of the Japanese school lunch program on the weight of early teenagers.

A recent study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior explores the nutrition perspectives and attitudes of Ghanaian pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers. The study sheds light on significant challenges, including food insecurity, economic constraints, and cultural influences, that impact the dietary habits and health of young mothers and their infants.

A study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital provides solutions to the pressing need to identify factors that influence Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk or resistance while providing an avenue to explore potential biological markers and therapeutic targets.

New research suggests that calming the brain’s immune cells might prevent or lessen the damaging inflammation seen in Alzheimer’s disease. The study points to the key role of the hormone and neurotransmitter norepinephrine, and this new understanding could pave the way for more focused treatments that start earlier and are tailored to the needs of each person.

The world is full of distractions, like intrusive memories, worries about the future and reminders of things to do.

The COVID-19 pandemic deepened existing health disparities and thrust children into a mental health epidemic, altering the landscape of health and well-being for a generation.

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how disruptions in the circadian rhythm in our muscles combined with poor diet can contribute to the development of diabetes, according to a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

High-intensity electrical pulses have been medically used to destroy tumors while sparing healthy tissue. But lower-intensity pulses may have a different effect—they reshape the battlefield, making tumors more vulnerable to the body’s own defenses.

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, Johns Hopkins Medicine investigators report, based on mouse-model research of the lung-damaging disease. Findings from the study, published in Nature Communications, could lead to more effective and less onerous therapies that reduce lung damage in TB survivors. It could also prevent lung dysfunction long after treatment completion, which is increasingly recognized as post-TB lung disease that affects tens of millions of TB patients.

Insomnia is a significant health and quality of life concern for older adults, with up to half of all adults over the age of 65 experiencing insomnia symptoms. In a new study, researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development and at Taipei Medical University have analyzed five years of data from older adults in the United States. They found that higher levels of both insomnia symptoms and sleep medication use were associated with higher risk of disability a year later.