Category: 6. Health

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The medical community is still reeling after a federal advisory panel voted to end the automatic Hepatitis B vaccine at birth, a recommendation that has been in place for more than 30 years. Most of the public-health debate…

By elevating ketone-driven energy pathways inside CD8+ T cells, dietary restriction steers them away from exhaustion and toward potent tumour-fighting states, unlocking stronger responses to immunotherapy in preclinical models.

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Pharmacy Times: Many patients first received PARP inhibitors in later lines of therapy. What role can pharmacists play in ensuring earlier recognition of eligible patients and optimizing PARPi sequencing?

Siddhartha Yadav, M.B.B.S., M.D.: Great…

The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that plays a key role in this protection is the microfold cell, or M cell. These cells detect bacteria and…

A sperm donor, who is an asymptomatic carrier of a genetic mutation increasing the risk of cancer, was used to conceive nearly 200 children worldwide, Denmark’s public broadcaster revealed Wednesday.

Between 2006 and 2022, the man’s sperm was…

Offering screening for neurodivergence to people detained by the police could help ensure access to appropriate support and fairer treatment in the criminal justice system, say Cambridge researchers, after a study suggests that one…

Synaptic plasticity — the brain’s ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning — is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington’s disease, with a direct impact on brain function….

For millions suffering from long COVID, their persistent breathlessness, brain fog and fatigue remain a maddening mystery, but a group of leading microbiologists think they may have cracked the case. 

The culprit for some long…

As life expectancy continues to climb globally, the focus of many people has moved from longevity alone to living in good health. This has drawn attention to the need to extend “healthspan,” the period during which an individual…

A new study among more than 1,500 British adolescents is the first in the world to assess the association between familial cardiometabolic diseases and the offspring’s risk of premature heart damage by early adulthood. The study was…