A 15-year-old British teenager develops an early Alzheimer's test to detect traces of the disease 10 years before the first symptoms

Today, 15 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer's disease, and approximately 66,000 die each year from complications of this disease.

A 25-year-old man, who has been diagnosed with coma in the past, has been diagnosed in the United States. was in an induced coma since February 2016, presented very encouraging results for physicians to a new technique of brain stimulation made with ultrasound. The technique was tested by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and used sound stimuli to activate the neurons in the thalamus, part of the brain responsible for consciousness, sleep, and the state of the brain. aler

The researchers plan to conduct further tests on people in a coma claiming that the case may have been luck and the patient may already be recovering spontaneously.

A combination of bacteria and fungi can cause early childhood caries

The bacterium Streptococcus mutans and the fungus Candida albicans may together cause cavitations in the mouths of children, according to new research. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine identified the relationship between bacteria and a fungus, reporting the finding online Feb.

A lollipop for your oral health?

A researcher at the University of California (UCLA) has become a candy entrepreneur. But here's a catch: he made herbaceous lollipops that are designed to prevent tooth decay, at least temporarily. Wenyuan Shi, Ph.D, a microbiologist at the UCLA School of Dentistry, created sugar-free, orange-flavored lollipops , with an herbaceous formula found in licorice that looks for and inactivates bacteria such as Streptococcus mutans, which can cause tooth decay.

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Sciences, shows that lifestyle habits such as smoking, drinking too much alcohol and not exercising may be responsible for the problem.

In Denmark found that such a lifestyle is more common in sexually inactive people. The analysis had medical information of 5,552 men and women between 16 and 97 years. From the data, it was possible to quantify the percentage of individuals with health risks and sexual dysfunction or inactivity. The results indicated that 78% of men and 91% of women with unhealthy lifestyle habits maintained such a style because they did not have a sexual partner.

A new study, which used a new study, found that daily use of sunscreen is recommended at an early age, as adolescents already have a risk of melanoma. special type of photo to reveal signs of sun damage, points out that young teens already have levels of exposure to UV rays that may increase the risk of developing melanoma later. This is the most dangerous type of skin cancer and the leading cause of death among skin diseases. The analysis was published in the online version of the journal

For the research, we evaluated 585 American boys and girls who were born in 1998 and were 11 or 12 years old at the beginning of the study. All were submitted to a photographic test that identified sun damage invisible to the naked eye. Such damages were exhibited with dark spots on the participants' skin.

A recent study by Vrije University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has found that men who sleep very little are at increased risk of developing diabetes. The Netherlands, men who sleep too much or too little may have an increased risk of developing diabetes. Previous studies have linked sleep and diabetes but, according to the study's author, Femke Rutters, this connection is not yet understood.

Although the research deficiency did not evaluate what people ate, the study is more evidence than sleep is related to the development of diabetes.

A single donation of blood can save up to four lives

According to WHO, a total of 92 million blood donations per year are carried out in Worldwide. In Brazil, according to Ministry of Health data, 1.9% of Brazilians donate blood regularly. Although it is within the 1% to 3% parameter defined by the WHO, this number still needs to improve. Furthermore, the Official Gazette of the Union, Portaria 1,353, which establishes the new Technical Regulation on Hemotherapy Procedures, with new criteria for blood donation in Brazil.

A study by the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

- 6% Of men and 3% of women reported having a medical diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea; -7% of men and 4% of women said they stopped breathing at least five nights per week - Men and women who said they stopped breathing at least five nights a week we

A study carried out by Unesp (AESP), which has been used in the past few years, has been shown to be ineffective against dengue mosquitoes. Universidade Estadual Paulista) in Botucatu revealed that house repellents, such as citronella candle, are not very effective against the mosquito

The research had the voluntary collaboration of several medical students , who placed the arm inside a cage with female dengue mosquitoes, the only ones that sting. The results showed that repellents such as androba, clove, citronella and soybean oil had little effective repellency degree. compared to industrial repellents.