Grace Wade
Health Reporter at New Scientist
Health reporter @newscientist covering psychedelics, substance use and chronic disease 🕵️♀️📝🦠 (she/her) Reach me at grace.wade(at)newscientist(.)com
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1 week ago |
newscientist.com | Grace Wade
Banking a baby’s umbilical cord blood was once seen as a reasonable way to protect their future health, but much of that potential has turned out to be mere hypeUmbilical cord blood contains stem cells that can be used to treat some health conditionsCord blood banking was all the rage about a decade ago. Companies pitched it almost as an insurance policy for a child’s future health, preserving the stem cells in the blood for life-saving treatments just over the horizon.
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2 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | Grace Wade
Pairing targeted vagus nerve stimulation with physical therapy seems to help people who are partially paralysed from spinal cord injuries regain the ability to perform some everyday activities, like putting on a necklace or doing up a zipper. The treatment is already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating some motor impairments after stroke.
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2 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | Grace Wade
Scientists have coaxed human cells to form a miniature replica of the cervix during pregnancy. This so-called cervix-on-a-chip reveals how inflammation and the vaginal microbiome can contribute to premature birth – and identifies a possible treatment to prevent it. Premature birth – when a baby is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy – affects more than 13 million infants each year and is the second leading cause of childhood mortality and disability. Yet there are no effective…
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4 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | Grace Wade
There is evidence that intermittent fasting alters the gut microbiome, and while this is often believed to improve gut health, some studies are now raising doubts about whether that is always the case. The idea behind intermittent fasting is relatively straightforward: instead of focusing on what you eat, you focus on when, cycling between periods of fasting and eating. The most popular approach limits all meals and snacks to the same 8-hour window each day.
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1 month ago |
newscientist.com | Grace Wade
Health Cases of dementia doubled worldwide between 1990 and 2021, but more than quadrupled in China during the same period Dementia rates are increasing more rapidly in China than almost anywhere else in the world, with cases more than quadrupling in the country over the past few decades. Daoying Geng at Fudan University in China and her colleagues analysed dementia rates in 204 countries and regions around the world between 1990 and 2021.
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More and more research is suggesting that psychedelics can reduce inflammation. This raises the possibility of using the drugs to treat non-psychiatric conditions linked with excess inflammation, such as inflammatory bowel disease or chronic Lyme disease. https://t.co/UL0qLdbb9p
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