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Buddhist jhāna meditation and the Christian practice of speaking in tongues—have more in common than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Barriers to running supervised toothbrushing programs for young children must be overcome if the UK government is to successfully tackle childhood tooth decay, researchers say.

Whether or not we like the sound of it, our ability to pick out our own voice is highly developed.

It is important that a health care team is aware of and understands a patient’s goals of care, both medical and personal. But that information, if documented, typically is not placed in a standardized location and is difficult to find within a patient’s voluminous electronic health record (EHR).

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, continues to remain one of modern medicine’s greatest challenges. This progressive neurodegenerative disorder affects millions of people worldwide, with numbers expected to reach 150 million by 2050.

A study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity), and living conditions, have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes.

A research team led by Prof. Jiang Yanyi from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered an important mechanism that enables squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) to resist ferroptosis, a form of cell death. Their findings were published in the journal Oncogene.

A team of researchers from the University of Florida has developed an innovative handheld device for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) detection that combines paper-based sample preparation with real-time isothermal amplification. This low-cost, portable platform promises rapid and accurate HIV diagnosis at the point of care (POC), overcoming the limitations of traditional laboratory-based tests.

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with the same mutation, a rare finding of a direct genetic link to psychosis, report researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and colleagues in Massachusetts and Germany. Their paper is published in Molecular Psychiatry.

Melbourne-based scientists have, for the first time, discovered how to “switch off” a molecule which is one of the top culprits behind prostate cancer, and is also linked to lung and kidney cancers.