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A low-calorie diet likely won't directly help hip osteoarthritis pain but could still have health benefits People with hip osteoarthritis alongside overweight/obesity who go on a very low-calorie diet for a year likely won't see additional improvements to their hip pain, but will likely see other health improvements compared to just doing an exercise regime, according to Australian researchers. The researchers recruited 101 adults and randomly split them into two groups; one did an exercise regime with a physiotherapist while the other group did the same exercise, but also followed a very low-calorie diet with nutritionist assistance. The researchers say those in the diet group lost more weight, but there were no clear differences in hip pain severity between the groups. However after a year, they say there were some improvements in hip function and lower pain medication use in the diet group.
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Adults with disability are experiencing extreme loneliness at greater rates than the rest of the population Severe loneliness among adults with disabilities is exceptionally high, according to US researchers who analysed data from national surveys collected between 2019 and 2020, and 2023 and 2024. They found that people with disabilities reported persistent feelings of loneliness at greater rates than the general population, and this occurred across all disability types. For example, the authors say that in a nationally representative survey of adults, 8% of people indicated persistent feelings of being left out and/or isolated and 10% indicated persistently feeling alone. In contrast, nearly one-third of those surveyed with disability reported these persistent feelings.
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Scientists capture real-time melting of 2D skyrmion lattices using magnetic fields What occurs during the melting process in two-dimensional systems at the microscopic level? Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have explored this phenomenon in thin magnetic layers.
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Marking 13 years on Mars, NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills Thirteen years after Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled robot has been given more autonomy and the ability to multitask—improvements designed to make the most of Curiosity's energy source, a multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator (MMRTG). Increased efficiency means the rover has ample power as it continues to decipher how the ancient Martian climate changed, transforming a world of lakes and rivers into the chilly desert it is today.
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Scientists uncover 75,000-year-old Arctic animal remains in Norwegian cave Scientists have uncovered the remains of a vast animal community that lived in the European Arctic 75,000 years ago.
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