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  • Health visitors to help vaccinate children ‘facing barriers’ under new pilot

    Health visitors to help vaccinate children ‘facing barriers’ under new pilot

    Health visitors in some areas are set to offer vaccinations to children who have ‘fallen through the cracks’ as part of a one-year pilot programme.

    The government has unveiled plans for a £2m pilot where health visitors will…

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  • NeurologyLive® Year in Review 2025: What Trials Could Reshape Alzheimer Care? | NeurologyLive

    NeurologyLive® Year in Review 2025: What Trials Could Reshape Alzheimer Care? | NeurologyLive

    In 2025, the NeurologyLive® staff was a busy bunch, covering clinical news and data readouts from around the world across a number of key neurology subspecialty areas. From major study publications and FDA decisions to societal conference…

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  • Hidradenitis Suppurativa Risk Factors Identified

    Hidradenitis Suppurativa Risk Factors Identified

    A LARGE two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) study provides strong genetic evidence that increased body mass index (BMI) causally increases the risk of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), while the role of smoking remains unclear. The study also…

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  • Experts warn mental health chatbots can cause harm even as demand grows amid a shortage of therapists

    Experts warn mental health chatbots can cause harm even as demand grows amid a shortage of therapists

    But the laws, all passed this year, don’t fully address the fast-changing landscape of AI software development. And app developers, policymakers and mental health advocates say the resulting patchwork of state laws isn’t enough to…

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  • The perfect way to look after your health if you work shifts | Health

    The perfect way to look after your health if you work shifts | Health

    Approximately 8.7 million people in the UK work night shifts, but humans are not meant to be awake at night. “It goes against our natural circadian cycle,” says Steven Lockley, visiting professor at the Surrey Sleep Research Centre,…

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  • Brain organoids are helping researchers, but raise ethical questions : Shots

    Brain organoids are helping researchers, but raise ethical questions : Shots

    Cross-section of a two-month old cerebral organoid observed under a fluorescence microscope.

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  • Soybean oil linked to obesity via liver protein, study finds

    Soybean oil linked to obesity via liver protein, study finds

    Soybean oil, the most widely used cooking oil in the United States, contributes to obesity through a specific genetic mechanism, according to a new study from UC Riverside.

    Published in the Journal of Lipid Research, the study explains why…

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  • Tariffs and economic uncertainty threaten public health

    Tariffs and economic uncertainty threaten public health

    The recent threat and introduction of tariffs by the US government has caused severe economic turbulence globally. Tariffs can increase prices, disrupt trade, cause stock market volatility, threaten jobs and businesses that rely on exports, and…

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  • Single-cell perturbations decipher ribosomal stress-surveillance regulators in type 2 diabetes

    Single-cell perturbations decipher ribosomal stress-surveillance regulators in type 2 diabetes

  • Suzuki, K. et al. Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology. Nature 627, 347–357 (2024).

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