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Suzanne Noonan, a mother of three children, struggled for months with debilitating anxiety, hot flushes and poor sleep but was afraid to look for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as there is a history of breast cancer in her family.

A friend, a…

Police have arrested four people for torturing members of a polio team as they were taking part in a vaccination campaign in Karachi, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Saturday.

The incident took place in Block No. 14 of Federal B Area in Karachi.

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Across the world, more than 1.5 billion people suffer from chronic liver disease. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that it kills more than 52,000 people a year in the United States alone – the ninth most…

Plastic is ubiquitous in the modern world, and it’s notorious for taking a long time to completely break down in the environment – if it ever does.

But even without breaking down completely, plastic can shed tiny particles – called…

Dominika Pilat, PhD, and Ana Griciuc, PhD, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital are the lead and senior authors of a paper published in Neuron, “The Gain-of-Function TREM2-T96K Mutation Increases Risk…

Nirupama Yechoor, MD, MSC, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in JAMA Network Open, “Coherence of Stroke Survivors’ Lived Experiences and the Stroke Specific…