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Approximately half of all Americans do not take their medication as prescribed by their doctor. This medication non-adherence causes an estimated 125,000 additional deaths and as much as $300 billion a year in additional medical appointments, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations.

Interest in raising backyard chickens grew rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues due to the ever-increasing cost of store-bought eggs.

CBD may hold promise as a tool to help people reduce problem drinking, according to a new study published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research.

It’s a little pill with big responsibilities. But despite its primary role to prevent pregnancy, the contraceptive pill (the Pill) could also help reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, according to research from the University of South Australia.

Secondary prevention medications for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are underused globally and additional strategies to increase their use are needed to improve CVD management and reduce premature mortality rates, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

During an ischemic stroke, blood vessels in the brain are blocked or narrowed. During a hemorrhagic stroke, there’s bleeding into the brain. The first treatment for stroke is to potentially offer a medication called tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) that helps dissolve blood clots. This is often called a clot buster. It has to be given within 4.5 hours from when symptoms began.

A team of scientists from the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. The study is published in Nature Communications.

Engineered immune cells called CAR-T cells are used in the treatment of cancer. Researchers from Uppsala University have now discovered that CAR molecules can be transferred from the CAR-T cells to other T cells in the tumor microenvironment.

In the United States, nearly three million adults 18 years and older reported having active epilepsy during 2021 and 2022. SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy), however, is rare, occurring in one in 1,000 people and resulting in an estimated 3,000 deaths per year. Its rarity has shrouded it in mystery, although some theories point to seizures disrupting the heart and breathing, ultimately leading to death.

Our brain is remarkably flexible in producing different reactions to supposedly comparable situations. The same sensory information can lead to different decisions depending on the behavioral context. One example of this is a penalty kick in soccer: a player can either choose the empty corner of the goal as the target or aim directly at the goalkeeper in the hope that he will jump aside. Both decisions are based on the same perception of the goalkeeper’s position, but lead to completely different actions.