According to WHO estimates, depression affects more than 300 million people worldwide, yet the condition remains widely underdiagnosed. To find out what happens “behind closed doors”, US researchers sent undercover actors posing as potentially depressed patients to doctor’s offices in […]
In a recently published review article, Romanian researchers investigate the possibilities of using essential oils from different plants as next-generation pesticides. Here, they present the most recent applications and future perspectives in this area. By Irina Fierascu & Radu Claudiu […]
New research provides national estimates of diagnostic error and serious misdiagnosis-related harm rates for each of the five most frequently misdiagnosed major vascular events, infections, and cancers. By David E. Newman-Toker, MD, PhD According to a new US study published […]
Mobile gaming has become one of the commonest forms of entertainment worldwide. However, little is known about how mobile games of different genres affect various brain functions. What is the effect of specific mobile game genres on alertness? Are players […]
Synapses in the brains of mammalian animals have been extensively studied in the past. In contrast, the structural composition of human synapses is, to date, much less investigated. What do we know at this point? By Astrid Rollenhagen and Joachim […]
Social Media could help pharmacists to support their practice and to contribute to community health, researchers from Indonesia say. But how extensively are pharmacists actually tapping this potential? By Andi Hermansyah What do most people have in common nowadays? The […]
In Western countries, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the most common chronic liver disorder and a common cause of death. An early detection of NAFLD is critical, which is why researchers from Mexico now present a new non-invasive […]
Global health organisations are faced with tough challenges in treating diseases caused by pathogenic micro-organisms due to the resistance that many strains have developed to available medicinal drugs. Researchers around the world are now interested in the natural medicinal properties […]
Lysosomes are the waste and recycling dumps of the cell and responsible for the degradation of intra- and extracellular molecules. Dysfunction of any component within the degradative system will lead to cellular congestion. Accumulating evidence indicates a link between inefficient […]
We likely all listen to our “gut feelings” from time to time, but maybe not all of us know that we actually have a “second brain” in our gut, which can function independently of our “first” brain. By Anita Annahazi […]
