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Newswise — You can probably complete an amazing number of tasks with your hands without looking at them. But if you put on gloves that muffle your sense of touch, many of those simple tasks become frustrating. Take away proprioception — your ability to sense your body’s relative position and movement — and you might…
Newswise — Demand for weight-loss medications sold under brand names such as Ozempic and Wegovy continues to surge, with a recent study reporting one in eight Americans has taken or is currently using the drugs to treat diabetes, heart disease or obesity. Formally, these drugs are known as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) and include…
Newswise — Four-and-a-half hours; the equivalent of a drive from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, assuming traffic isn’t log jammed on Interstate 15. This is the critical window of time for stroke victims to be eligible for treatment at the hospital after a stroke begins to affect the brain. Within this tight window, a patient…
Newswise — For years, Université de Montréal medical professor Stephanie Fulton and her team have been unravelling the mechanisms in the human nervous system that control people’s need to eat and to engage in physical activity, and how their metabolism affects their mood. Their latest discovery, published in Nature Communications, takes that knowledge a step…
Newswise — Three faculty members at Sanford Burnham Prebys are among the most influential scientists worldwide in the 2024 rankings by the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate. Clarivate publishes the Highly Cited Researchers list each year to recognize individuals demonstrating significant and broad scientific influence. David A. Brenner, MD, president and CEO of the…
