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Can wiggling your pinky really stop cognitive decline?

What if protecting your brain from dementia was as simple as wiggling your little fingers a few seconds each day? That's the promise behind "pinky time," a viral TikTok trend that claims a simple finger exercise can lower your risk of developing Alzheimer's.

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Seeing through optical noise: New method offers sharper way to image the eye

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become one of the foundations of modern ophthalmology. A patient sits in front of the device and focuses on a target, and moments later the physician can see a detailed cross-section of the retina, layer by layer, without any physical contac

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Exposure to bright evening light linked to higher risk of age-related eye disease

Every sunrise and sunset sends the body a signal, keeping the circadian clock running on a roughly 24-hour cycle. This clock evolved so organisms could adapt to Earth's daily rotation, syncing their biology to the pattern of day and night. Artificial lighting has freed human soci

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Immigrant youths feel worlds collide from bicultural stress

As the number of adolescents from immigrant families continues to rise, researchers say a pressing question is coming into focus: What does it mean for young people's mental health to grow up navigating life between cultures?

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Top supplements Americans use are shifting from multivitamins to targeted health fixes

Dietary supplements are an excellent way to fill gaps in our nutritional requirements. From vitamins and macronutrients to gut-health probiotics, dietary supplements have helped people address deficiencies. In recent years, however, the goal of consuming supplements has gone from

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Type 2 diabetes patients often have high blood sugar while fasting—here's why

Many patients with type 2 diabetes wonder how their blood sugar levels can be high when they have not eaten anything. The answer to this counterintuitive phenomenon lies in what is known as insulin resistance.

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France detects first Ebola case outside Africa in current outbreak

France on Wednesday announced its first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory: a doctor who had flown back from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is fighting a major outbreak.

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Age limits alone won't fix smartphone risks, suggests study

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, found that a year after receiving their first smartphone at age 13, teens at 14 who spent signi

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Pediatric recommendations for preventing and controlling Candida auris released

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) has released a new consensus statement providing pediatric-specific recommendations for the infection prevention and control of Candida auris (also referred to as Candidozyma auris), a multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen a

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Robust colorectal cancer signature identified in large-scale microbiome study

Researchers have long suspected that the gut microbiome—the community of bacteria and other microorganisms living in the intestine—is closely linked to colorectal cancer. In a new study published in Cell Host & Microbe, an international group of researchers from the Mi-EOCRC cons

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Social media use linked to poorer mental health in older Canadians, study finds

Different digital communication tools are associated with mental health in different ways among older adults in Canada, according to a new study published in PLOS Global Public Health by Hossam Ali-Hassan of York University, Canada, and colleagues.

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Declining global acceptability of intimate partner violence tied to declining prevalence

A study of more than 60 countries shows those with faster declines in the social acceptability of intimate partner violence against women also tend to have had faster reductions in rates of such violence, as well as faster human development improvements. Irina Vartanova of the In

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