The Trump administration will slash routine vaccine recommendations during childhood from 17 to 11 jabs – the biggest change to vaccines yet under the purview of longtime vaccine critic Robert F Kennedy Jr.
The changes, which US health officials…
Category: 6. Health
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VINE Offering A Free Diabetes Prevention Program
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one in three adults has prediabetes. This condition occurs when blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough for a type 2 diabetes diagnosis….
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Yibin Kang’s team identifies new path to potential cancer treatments
For years, scientists have puzzled over the paradoxical relationship between cancer and retinoids, the metabolites that animals and people produce when their bodies break down vitamin A.
About 40 years ago, a leukemia patient was cured with a…
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Helping Others May Be an Easy Way to Keep Your Brain Young, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
Our bodies age at different rates, sometimes closely correlated to the years we’ve spent alive, and sometimes less so. A new study links another factor to the speed at which our brains age: how much we help others.
Regularly volunteering can…
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Shortage of NHS stroke specialists leaving thousands dead or disabled, say doctors | Stroke
Thousands of people who have had a stroke are ending up severely disabled or dying because the NHS has too few specialists to treat them quickly enough, senior doctors are warning.
A chronic shortage of stroke consultants across the NHS means that…
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Medications could help the aging brain cope with surgery, memory impairment – News Bureau
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Simple pharmaceutical interventions could help older brains cope with memory impairment and recovery after surgery, new studies in mice suggest.
In two studies, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign…
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UI wins $1.5 million to accelerate materials science research | Iowa Now
The University of Iowa has won nearly $1.5 million to expand its materials science center and to explore new ways to leverage materials for quantum technologies.
The award from the U.S. Department of Defense will unite researchers in…
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US CDC says 2025-26 flu season ‘moderately severe’ as cases hit 11 million
Jan 5 (Reuters) – Seasonal influenza activity remained elevated and rose in the final week of December, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showed on Monday, as the agency for the first time classified the 2025-26 season as…
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Researchers Identify Proteins that Spread Parkinson’s Pathology in the Brain
Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are a growing health concern in the United States. The Parkinson’s Foundation currently estimates that around 1.1 million Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and…
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