#healthscience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #healthscience, aggregated by home.social.
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Magnesium supplements: what you need to know about each different type
#Health #Magnesium #Sleep #MagnesiumSupplements #Diet #Nutrition #Health #Wellness #Supplements #BrainHealth #Migraine #HealthScience #NutritionScience #The14Media
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Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-aging-may-be-a-program-not-a-breakdown-20260814/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804266
#HackerNews #aging #biology #healthscience #longevity #program #theory
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WVU Extension Hopes Free Seeds Grow Community Alongside Food https://www.allforgardening.com/1928366/wvu-extension-hopes-free-seeds-grow-community-alongside-food/ #FoodSecurity #garden #gardening #GardeningWestVirginia #GrowThis #HealthScience #WestVirginia #WestVirginiaStateUniversityExtensionService #WVUExtensionService
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An experimental Alzheimer's drug lowered tau protein and showed early signs of slowing decline in a study of about 400 people. Larger trials still need to confirm the benefit, but it points to a new treatment path beyond amyloid.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/d58728ee8f7d9dfd9ec8de416cddd75d#GoodNews #Alzheimers #MedicalResearch #Dementia #HealthScience #ClinicalTrials
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Sensing warm and cool: how the body detects temperature changes
https://news.uq.edu.au/2026-07-sensing-warm-and-cool-how-body-detects-temperature-changes
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953189
#HackerNews #sensingtemperature #bodytemperature #thermoregulation #temperaturechanges #healthscience
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“The race to get to sleep starts as soon as the day's #TourDeFrance racing ends. Riders will cross the line and be met with various measures to cool them down, then they'll be fed two meals […]. The riders drink cherry juice after the race and take magnesium before bed […].
“Each rider has a custom pillow, made for their preferred sleeping position and physiology. One quirk of working with cyclists is that they have particularly sensitive necks that need to be kept limber.”
https://defector.com/how-cycling-solved-sleep
(attn. @mherbert, relevant to your interests)
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End of term. What I’ve studied, struggled with and what’s coming next – final year!!
Hey, hi, hello! It’s me I’m back!
After a much longer break than planned, I’m finally writing again.
The last few months have looked very different from what I expected. Seven months ago, I fell down the stairs and ended up with three separate spinal injuries. Combined with one of the most demanding semesters of my degree so far, my energy went towards the basics: recovering, keeping up with university and getting through each week.
There was not much room left for blogging.
But I’ve missed this.
I’ve missed writing things down. I’ve missed having somewhere to explore ideas beyond lecture notes. I’ve missed the process of taking something complicated and trying to make sense of it.
So I’m hoping this is the start of being a little more consistent again.
Especially because the timing feels quite fitting. This upcoming year I’ll be studying science communication and one of the recommended extracurricular activities is, unsurprisingly, science communication. Which means this little corner of the internet might finally become part of my academic journey in a much more intentional way.
This is the second year I’ve written an end-of-term reflection post and reading back over last year’s feels strangely emotional. It’s strange seeing a version of yourself from a year ago who was excited about what was coming next, knowing that all those weeks of studying, deadlines and late-night revision are now memories.
So what did I actually study?
This year took me into some areas of health science that I hadn’t previously considered but found incredibly fascinating. Translational medicine being one we explored:
- Cancer therapeutics and molecular pharmacology – looking at how we understand cancer at a biological level and how treatments are developed
- Clinical trials, ethics and how evidence moves from research into healthcare decisions
- Pharmacogenomics – how genetic variations alter how patients metabolise drugs
- Parkinson’s disease – from the mechanisms behind the condition to the challenges of managing a complex neurological disorder in clinical practice
- Musculoskeletal medicine – biomechanics, injury repair and prevention (which felt especially relevant after my own experience with injury this year)
Then came infectious disease and public health, which was probably one of the broadest areas we covered.
- Pathogen biology: cellular mechanisms of major diseases like Influenza, HIV, malaria and Tuberculosis, including drug resistance mutations.
- Host immune defence – how the body fights infection at a molecular level and how vaccines stimulate long-term immunity.
- Epidemiology – the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations.
- Global public health interventions – outbreak control, sanitation, quarantine measures and the impact of social and behavioural factors on disease spread
What I struggled with
Math.
Again
At this point, this is becoming a recurring feature of my academic journey.
Quantitative methods and epidemiology continue to push me outside my comfort zone. I understand why they matter and I appreciate how much they contribute to understanding health and disease, but numbers have never been where I feel most naturally confident. Because my final semester requires me to analyse scientific papers, my focus over the summer will be on applied research statistics.
What’s next?
The next sentence feels slightly surreal to write…
September marks the beginning of my final semester of my degree.
My final year will bring science communication, evaluating contemporary science, applied statistics and research literacy AND my dissertation project running alongside everything else.
Right now, I’m in the messy brainstorming stage. I’m collecting ideas, reading around possible topics and trying to work out which research question I want to spend the next year living with (that’s exciting and slightly terrifying).
I’m looking forward to documenting that process here.
The next chapter of aBookishScholar is going to be about finishing this degree, learning more about science communication, exploring research and continuing to follow the questions that refuse to leave me alone.
I’m glad to be back 🙂
#AcademicJourney #healthScience #higherEducation #lifelogging #matureStudent #studentBlog #TheOpenUniversity #writing -
Naomi’s Story: What Flying Really Does to a Diabetic Body — Part 1: Dehydration
Cabin humidity drops to levels drier than the Sahara Desert at 35,000 feet. For a diabetic passenger, that’s not discomfort — that’s a medical event waiting to happen. This is Naomi’s story, and what flying really does to a diabetic body. -
Oh, look, another riveting exposé on how vitamin D isn't the miracle elixir we all thought it was. 🚫✨ Just a "mild" exaggeration, right? Because clearly, we needed science to tell us that #sunlight isn't the second coming of kale. 🌞🥬
https://dynomight.net/vitamin-d/ #vitaminD #mythbusting #healthscience #skepticism #wellness #HackerNews #ngated -
Wellness influencers talk about fixing a broken gut microbiome and marketers sell tests to help. Here's what the evidence actually shows. #gutmicrobiome #digestion #healthscience
Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass
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This high-fat eating plan may offer a powerful way to shield the aging brain
KD provides ketone bodies as an alternative brain fuel when glucose use is impaired, potentially rescuing energy production. Credit: Ronit HaNe…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #HealthResearch #HealthResearchNews #HealthScience #MedicineResearch #MedicineResearchNews #MedicineScience #nutrition
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2685159/this-high-fat-eating-plan-may-offer-a-powerful-way-to-shield-the-aging-brain/ -
Fructose sends a weaker satiety signal to the brain than glucose
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center have found that common dietary sugars fructose and glucose, despite having the same …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #HealthResearch #HealthResearchNews #HealthScience #MedicineResearch #MedicineResearchNews #MedicineScience #nutrition
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2683258/fructose-sends-a-weaker-satiety-signal-to-the-brain-than-glucose/ -
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Fasting after 60 changes more than waistlines, exposing a trade-off many dieters never see coming
Intermittent fasting affects body weight, metabolism, and cardiovascular health differently across the…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #HealthResearch #HealthResearchNews #HealthScience #MedicineResearch #MedicineResearchNews #MedicineScience #nutrition
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2672903/fasting-after-60-changes-more-than-waistlines-exposing-a-trade-off-many-dieters-never-see-coming/ -
Stem cells have potent potential for diabetes treatment
#Health #StemCells #Diabetes #MedicalResearch #Insulin #Biotechnology #HealthScience #RegenerativeMedicine #ClinicalTrials #StemCells #Healthcare #Innovation #BetaCells #ScienceNews #Type1Diabetes
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New research shows exercise and ibuprofen may combat chemo brain, helping cancer patients manage cognitive decline during treatment. #CancerCare #HealthScience
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The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work
#HackerNews #biochemistry #GLP1 #retatrutide #healthscience #drugdiscovery
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From @onelife_livedwell on IG: COVID floats in air the way a jellyfish floats in water. It’s airborne, which means the primary route of infection is inhalation of virus laden aerosol particles small enough that they can stay suspended for hours.
#covidisairborne #cleanair #healthscience #disabilityadvocacy #scicomm1/
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Why private gardens mattered so much during the first COVID-19 lockdown https://www.allforgardening.com/1719149/why-private-gardens-mattered-so-much-during-the-first-covid-19-lockdown/ #garden #HealthResearch #HealthResearchNews #HealthScience #MedicineResearch #MedicineResearchNews #MedicineScience
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Mediterranean diet associated with lower risk of all stroke types
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Following a Mediterranean diet is associated with a lower risk of all types of str…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #HealthResearch #HealthResearchNews #HealthScience #MedicineResearch #MedicineResearchNews #MedicineScience #Mediterranean
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2592979/mediterranean-diet-associated-with-lower-risk-of-all-stroke-types-2/ -
We are expanding our #collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University as part of our excellence strategy, focusing on #dronedelivery services and intelligent manufacturing technologies, as well as #healthscience: http://go.tum.de/906954
📷 M. Qiuwu
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Restoring Sperm Production For Infertile Couples. A targeted mRNA treatment restores sperm production in genetically infertile mice and allows them to father healthy offspring. Hope it works for humans. #MedicalResearch #ReproductiveHealth #Biotech #ScienceNews #HealthScience
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AI Blood Test Finds Hidden Liver Damage In Time For Treatment. Johns Hopkins oncologists find that tiny fragments of DNA circulating in the bloodstream may contain hidden clues. #MedicalResearch #HealthScience #Biotech #ScienceNews #PreventiveHealth
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Mediterranean diet may boost mitochondrial signals linked to heart and brain health
Localization of SHMOOSE and Humanin withi…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanOliveOil #OliveOil #HealthResearch #HealthResearchNews #HealthScience #MedicineResearch #MedicineResearchNews #MedicineScience #Mediterranean #Olive
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2579706/mediterranean-diet-may-boost-mitochondrial-signals-linked-to-heart-and-brain-health-2/ -
This Mediterranean‑style diet could keep your brain sharp as you age: New study
Credit: Paul Deetman from Pexels The Mediterranean…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanOliveOil #OliveOil #HealthResearch #HealthResearchNews #HealthScience #MedicineResearch #MedicineResearchNews #MedicineScience #Mediterranean #Olive
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2579365/this-mediterranean-style-diet-could-keep-your-brain-sharp-as-you-age-new-study-2/ -
Why your gut microbiome and heart are closer than you think
#Health #GutMicrobiome #HeartHealth #HeartDisease #CardiovascularHealth #GutHeartAxis #MicrobiomeResearch #HealthScience #MedicalResearch #PreventiveHealth #NutritionScience #HealthyGut
https://the-14.com/why-your-gut-microbiome-and-heart-are-closer-than-you-think/ -
Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-carbon-dioxide-human-blood.html
#HackerNews #RisingCarbonDioxide #HumanBlood #HealthScience #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalImpact
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New scientific data suggest three distinct types of ADHD.
Based on the analysis of brain imaging scans, the researchers concluded that there may be three distinct subtypes of ADHD, each with different profiles.
Read more: https://omniletters.com/new-scientific-data-suggest-three-distinct-types-of-adhd/
#ADHD #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #BrainResearch #ScientificDiscovery #Psychology #BrainImaging #HealthScience #Neurodiversity #ResearchUpdate
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🌙 When the virus departs, why does the midnight coughing remain? Families navigate unexplained reflux symptoms months after infection, searching for answers in the pre-dawn hours.
✍️ Research explores pathways that may link viral illness to lasting digestive disruption: https://TPC8.short.gy/0b7ETNSB
🌅 Dawn always comes, but understanding arrives on its own timeline.
#PostViralReflux #Gastroenterology #Gastroparesis #GERD #DigestiveHealth #PediatricHealth #HealthScience #ChronicReflux #STEM #TPC8
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Australian researchers have identified premature placental ageing as a key factor behind some stillbirths, opening the door to early detection and prevention through maternal blood screening. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/women/placental-ageing-discovery-may-explain-stillbirths-edzs697t?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Stillbirth #PregnancyResearch #MedicalBreakthrough #HealthScience
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Fluoride and cancer: new research continues to show no clear link.
Large studies find no proven connection between fluoridated water and cancer risk, though scientists continue to explore long‑term exposure and genetics.
Read more ➡️ https://blog.banishcancer.org/fluoride-cancer-research/
#CancerResearch #Oncology #FluorideFacts #HealthScience #EvidenceBased #BanishCancer
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Gut Bacteria from Amphibians and Reptiles Achieve Complete Tumor Elimination
https://www.jaist.ac.jp/english/whatsnew/press/2025/12/17-1.html
#HackerNews #GutBacteria #TumorElimination #Amphibians #Reptiles #HealthScience #ResearchNews
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Aluminium in vaccines: separating RFK Jr’s claims from scientific evidence
#Health #Vaccines #HealthScience #PublicHealth #CDC #RFKJr #MedicalFacts #Misinformation #HealthSafety #EvidenceBased #AluminiumInVaccines #VaccineFacts #AntiVaxxers #The14
https://the-14.com/aluminium-in-vaccines-separating-rfk-jrs-claims-from-scientific-evidence/ -
Obesity raises brain pressure.
Bariatric surgery lowers it.
Your BMI talks — your brain @francescocorradi #Neuroscience #NeurocriticalCare #ICp #Obesity #BrainHealth
#BariatricSurgery #MetabolicHealth #Physiology #MedicalResearch
#SciComm #HealthScience #Medicine #CriticalCare
