What Makes a Person a Hypochondriac?
Hypochondria, also known as hypochondriasis or illness anxiety disorder, is a condition that involves obsession and intense worrying about your health. Hypochondria, also known as hypochondriasis or illness anxiety disorder, is a condition that involves obsession and intense worrying about your health. Hypochondria has a variety of causes and treatments. What is hypochondria? Hypochondria is […]
Engineered nanomaterial captures off-target cancer drug to prevent tissue damage: Super-capacity, cellulose-based material may enable high-dose targeted treatments
Standard chemotherapies may efficiently kill cancer cells, but they also pose significant risks to healthy cells, resulting in secondary illness and a diminished quality of life for patients. To prevent the previously unavoidable damage, researchers, led by Penn State, have developed a new class of nanomaterials engineered to capture chemotherapy drugs before they interact with […]
What Are Three Long Term Effects of Anorexia?
Anorexia, also called anorexia nervosa, is a serious eating disorder that causes a strong fear of gaining weight. People with anorexia avoid eating and might over-exercise to control weight and body image. This intense fear causes them to extremely limit their food intake to the point of starvation. But food isn’t the only problem with anorexia: Your body […]
Are Rubella and German Measles the Same? Rubella vs Measles Chart
Rubella is a contagious viral infection that is also called German measles or three-day measles. While rubella infection symptoms are mild, they are more severe for pregnant women. Rubella, commonly called German measles or three-day measles, is usually a mild illness caused by a virus. While it is also called German measles the virus that […]
Prediabetes Tied to Doubled Risk of Major Depression in Dutch Study
A precursor to diabetes might also go hand-in-hand with depression, a Dutch cohort study indicated. Three surrogate measures for insulin resistance all showed a significant link with developing a major depressive disorder over a 9-year follow-up period, reported Kathleen T. Watson, PhD, of Stanford School of Medicine in California, and colleagues. As shown in their […]
Acoustic illusions
When listening to music, we don’t just hear the notes produced by the instruments, we are also immersed in its echoes from our surroundings. Sound waves bounce back off the walls and objects around us, forming a characteristic sound effect — a specific acoustic field. This explains why the same piece of music sounds very […]
Can Working Out Slow Prostate Cancer Progression?
Rigorous exercise not only boosted cardiorespiratory fitness, but also improved indicators of prostate cancer biochemical progression in patients undergoing active surveillance, according to results of a randomized trial. Patients participating in a 12-week high-intensity interval training (HIIT) regimen saw an increase in peak oxygen consumption (VO2) — the study’s primary outcome — of 0.9 mL/kg/min, […]
Vascular Function: Another Benefit of Bariatric Surgery
Beyond weight loss, bariatric surgery was also effective at improving vascular outcomes, a new study found. In a study of more than 300 adults with obesity, there was an average 17.5% loss of initial body weight during a roughly 6-month follow-up period after undergoing bariatric surgery, reported Noyan Gokce, MD, of Boston Medical Center in […]