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Everyday chemicals are quietly damaging beneficial gut bacteria
Scientists have completed a large laboratory analysis of widely used human-made chemicals and found that 168 of them are harmful to bacteria that normally live in a healthy human gut. These substances slow or stop the growth of microbes that play…
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Scalding hot coffee and tea linked to higher esophageal cancer risk
Everyone is a fan of a hot cup of tea or coffee in the winters.
Some people…
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UK junk food advertising ban comes into force
The new UK ban on junk food advertising before 9pm and online targets childhood obesity and forces change across food marketing.
A landmark UK ban on junk food advertising has come into force today, restricting the promotion of…
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To Knock Down Health-System Hurdles Between You And HIV Prevention, Try These 6 Things
A couple of years ago, Matthew Hurley got the kind of text people fear.
It said: “When was the last time you were STD tested?”
Someone Hurley had recently had unprotected sex with had just tested positive for HIV.
Hurley went to…
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2026 Junior Travelling Fellowships
WFN is pleased to announce that we will again this year be able to offer Junior Travelling Fellowships (JTFs) for young neurologists from countries classified by the World Bank as Low or Lower Middle Income, to attend approved international…
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Opioid Use Disorder: Identifying new targets in the fight against opioids
Opioid use disorder is a global public health crisis that continues to have devastating consequences for individuals and society (Mathis et al., 2025). Despite its prevalence, the mechanisms underlying this disorder remain poorly…
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Scientist reveal key factor to beat ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer, a type that usually remains…
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Cancer Disparities Seen Among Kidney Transplant Recipients
Kidney transplant recipients from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods face important inequalities in cancer risk and outcomes, according to a large US registry study linking transplant and cancer data over nearly two…
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Five lifestyle tweaks to help you live well for longer
As Gow tells me, “If people don’t believe change is possible, it’s very unlikely that they’re going to be open to an intervention… Increasing the knowledge of what we can do to protect and promote brain health, whatever age we are, is…
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