Largest study confirms health benefits of 4-day workweek
DrMoroThe results of the largest study to date on the impact of shorter working weeks on health and productivity are reported by Nature. The study analysed data from six countries where some…
July 2025
Radiologists urge to do CT scans after Covid only for patients with long-term symptoms
An international group of doctors led by Anna Rita Larici from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart published a consensus on the use of tomographic examinations in patients after…
Paleoanthropologists describe 300,000-year-old teeth of archaic humans from China
Paleoanthropologists have described more fossils from the Hualundong site in eastern China. About ten years ago, scientists discovered, among other things, more than two dozen teeth of archaic people who lived around…
Deafness and loneliness increase the risk of dementia
A team from the University of Geneva analysed data from 33,000 Europeans over 50 to assess the impact of hearing loss on dementia risk. Every two years, participants shared information about their lifestyle, social…
Chemists synthesize tetramantane
Swiss chemists have carried out a complete enantioselective synthesis of one of the isomers of tetramantane, built from four fused adamantane fragments. To do this, they used a catalytic reaction of carbene insertion into a carbon-hydrogen bond. Previously, such…
CAR-NK therapy from donor stem cells helps patient with systemic scleroderma
Chinese and American researchers have reported a successful experiment in treating severe systemic scleroderma in a patient with a ready-made preparation of NK lymphocytes with a chimeric antigen receptor, obtained from donor induced pluripotent stem cells. The report…
AI uses MRI images to detect accelerated brain aging and dementia risks
Imaging provides unique direct information about structural brain aging that cannot be obtained from blood and other molecular biomarkers. For example, key indicators of aging include the thickness of the cerebral cortex, which controls…
Laughing gas caused frostbite of the pharynx and larynx
A 23-year-old man presented to an American outpatient clinic complaining of pain when swallowing and hoarseness for two days. The symptoms appeared immediately after he inhaled through his mouth from…
Microplastics Found Again in Human Reproductive Fluids
Emilio Gomez-Sanchez from the Next Fertility Clinic in Murcia and colleagues analyzed samples of ovarian follicular fluid from 25 patients and semen from 18 patients and found microplastics in most…
Substance use named as main cause of adult drownings in bathtubs
Shane Darke of the University of New South Wales and colleagues from Australia and the UK conducted a retrospective study and found that most drownings in adults in bathtubs are due to the use of psychoactive…
