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Taking Anabolic Steroids After a Sport Injury

Skip to: Sports Injuries What are Anabolic Steroids? How Effective are Anabolic Steroid Treatments in Healthcare Settings? Can Anabolic Steroids Treat Sports Injuries? Anabolic steroids can have many health benefits, including increasing pain tolerance, as well as strengthening and building muscle. Because of this, steroids have the potential to be used for treating various illnesses, […]

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Brain Differences in Cannabis Users

Cannabis, or marijuana, is the most commonly used recreational drug that has several psychoactive properties. In addition to recreational uses to achieve a ‘high’, cannabis also has many proven and presumed medicinal properties, as well as being used for religious and spiritual purposes. Image Credit: Dmytro Tyshchenko/Shutterstock.com Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug, […]

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An Overview of the SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines

Following the publication of the genetic sequence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus in January 2020, pharmaceutical companies worldwide have been racing to develop a safe and effective vaccine, with many reaching clinical trials in record time. Image Credit: Viacheslav Lopatin / Shutterstock.com In comparison, 22 months had elapsed following MERS-CoV's […]

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Potential Risks of Clear-Aligner Treatment

An upsurge in the demand for dental aesthetics has led to the evolution of dental appliances like clear aligners. Clear aligners aid in aligning teeth in an appropriate shape within the dental arch. Over the past few years, clear aligners have gained importance as they appear more aesthetic, comfortable, and handy. However, clear aligners pose […]

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HTX-011

Heron Therapeutics Resubmits New Drug Application to FDA for HTX-011 for the Treatment of Postoperative Pain SAN DIEGO, Nov. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Heron Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HRTX), a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing best-in-class treatments to address some of the most important unmet patient needs, today announced that the New Drug […]

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When I watch needle injections on Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok I get an autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR). This causes me to hurt myself sometimes with pens and tacks. Is it sterile? Should I stop?

Thank you for your question. ASMR is an autonomous sensory meridian response that leads to a tingling sensation in the crown of the head, caused by a range of audio-visual triggers, such as needle injections. Some people may find watching ASMR videos to be an outlet for stress relief, relaxation, and/or to help them fall asleep. ASMR […]

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‘Jumping genes’ help stabilize DNA folding patterns

“Jumping genes” — bits of DNA that can move from one spot in the genome to another — are well-known for increasing genetic diversity over the long course of evolution. Now, new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that such genes, also called transposable elements, play another, more surprising role: […]

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‘Reading’ with aphasia is easier than ‘running’

Neurolinguists from HSE University have confirmed experimentally that for people with aphasia, it is easier to retrieve verbs describing situations with several participants (such as ‘someone is doing something’), although such verbs give rise to more grammar difficulties. The results of the study have been published in Aphasiology. A common symptom of aphasia (language impairment […]

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Brain activity patterns linked with improved learning and memory in multiple sclerosis

A recent article by Kessler Foundation researchers demonstrated g people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The article, “Brain activation patterns associated with paragraph learning in persons with multiple sclerosis: The MEMREHAB trial,” (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.09.008 ) was epublished on October 20, 2019 by the International Journal of Psychophysiology. The authors are Olga Boukrina, Ph.D., Ekaterina Dobryakova, Ph.D., […]