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Category: 6. Health
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expert reaction to weight-loss drugs influencing brain signals linked to food cravings, as published in Nature Medicine
Scientists respond to article published in Nature Medicine exploring the link between weight-loss drugs and…
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Polymer physics offers fresh perspectives on neurodegenerative diseases
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have applied ideas from polymer physics to illuminate the mechanism behind a key pathology in Alzheimer’s disease, the formation of fibrils of tau proteins. They showed that fibril…
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URI professor’s study seeks to better understand connections between suicide and Alcohol Use Disorder – Rhody Today
KINGSTON, R.I. — Nov. 17, 2025 — Decades of research have highlighted the strong connection between Alcohol Use Disorder and suicidal behavior, determining that the likelihood of a suicide attempt is as much as 37 times higher when an…
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GEM SLEEP issues ‘Wake-Up Call’ to increase awareness of OSA – HME News
- GEM SLEEP issues ‘Wake-Up Call’ to increase awareness of OSA HME News
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Common Yet Underrecognized Driver of Poor Health in Older Adults Clinical Advisor
- Undiagnosed Sleep Apnea Is Compromising the Health of 30…
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Rise in IPD Calls for Development of More Pneumococcal Vaccines
Amid nearly a 100% increase in invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) between 2012 and 2024, there is an apparent need to develop pneumococcal vaccines with greater valency to protect against nonvaccine serotypes (NVTs).
Despite efficacy in the…
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Lecanemab or Lithium for Alzheimer Disease Dementia? New Data Change Everything
Lecanemab is being heavily promoted for treatment of minimal cognitive impairment (MCI) and early Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia. But recent data support consideration of low-dose lithium for this role and for primary prevention of cognitive…
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‘Better and cheaper’: the case for prostate cancer screening among black men | Prostate cancer
Junior Hemans was having a routine health check in 2014 when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, at the age of 51. He knew there was an increased risk of the disease in black men so asked to have a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, which…
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How can public health professionals overcome vaccine hesitation?
Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most effective tools for preventing cervical cancer in women and other HPV-associated diseases in people of all genders. Yet many people worldwide remain…
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Wild Birds Drive North America’s H5N1 Outbreak
Since late 2021, a panzootic, or “a pandemic in animals,” of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild birds, agriculture, and mammals. Unlike previous outbreaks, aggressive culling of domestic birds has not contained…
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