Month: July 2022

More Than Half of Young Adults in the US Have a Chronic Health Condition

Imagine a bustling battlefield, where young warriors in their prime are fighting a relentless enemy. In this battle, the enemy takes the form of chronic health conditions like obesity, depression, high blood pressure, and asthma. Surprisingly, the enemy has gained an upper hand, with new federal data revealing that almost 40 million American young adults […]

Published on July 28, 2022

Vitamin D Supplements Do Not Reduce Bone Fractures, Large Study Finds

Imagine you had a garden and you were trying to grow some beautiful flowers. You heard that using special fertilizer would help your flowers grow taller and stronger. So, you went out and bought the best fertilizer money could buy. But when you used it on your plants, nothing changed! Your flowers stayed small and […]

Published on July 28, 2022

Predicting Changes in Nerve Speed to Decode Neuropathic Pain

Imagine trying to identify specific voices in a crowded room where everyone is talking at once. It would be challenging, right? Well, scientists face a similar problem when studying nerve activity in the human body. In order to understand how neuropathic pain is encoded, researchers need to sort through the different signals coming from individual […]

Published on July 28, 2022