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One Step Closer to Understanding the Placebo Effect in Pain Treatment
Neuroscientists from the USA appear to have advanced our understanding of the placebo effect in pain relief. Their findings, recently published in Nature, open the possibility of influencing the described pain control pathway using drugs or neurostimulation.
Is a Genetic Predisposition to Higher BMI Enough to Increase Asthma Risk?
It is well known that there is a connection between obesity and asthma. However, the underlying…
A Cap Instead of a Brain Implant?
Technological advancements have enabled the development of various brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)…
Distribution and Localization of Specifically Modified Exosomes Can Improve the Treatment of Muscular Dystrophies
A research team from several Milanese universities, in a study published in Nature Nanotechnology,…
Scientists Decipher the Perception of Bitter Taste. How Will This Help in the Development of New Drugs?
Taste receptors are a known phenomenon, but how exactly does taste perception occur? Scientists…
New method for distinguishing tumour tissue could improve glioblastoma resection
A research team from the Czech National Institute for Cancer Research (NÚVR) and Stanford…
Cinitapride in the Treatment of Functional Dyspepsia – An Overview and Meta-Analysis of Current Data
Functional dyspepsia is a relatively common disorder of the gastroduodenal tract characterized by symptoms...
A kiss that 'took my legs away': A rare case of EBV in a 70-year-old woman – a case report
A trio of British authors presents the case of a 70-year-old woman evaluated in the emergency…
AI Can Provide Surgeons with Valuable Data and Real-Time Feedback
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools in healthcare are evolving and improving at an ever-accelerating…