People who walk for 10-15 minutes at a time can reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease by up to two thirds compared to those who take only brief walks lasting less than five minutes. Even when covering the same total number of steps, longer,…
Category: 6. Health
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African Region’s Remarkable Progress in Polio Eradication
At the same time, Kenya’s KEMRI laboratory as well as South Africa also expanded its sequencing capacity, further stepping up the region’s ability to detect and respond to poliovirus swiftly.
Then in October, Nigeria launched an integrated…
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Real-life ‘RoboCop’? Chinese policeman beats paralysis with spinal interface implant
In the 1987 American action film RoboCop, protagonist Alex Murphy is a police officer in a dystopian 21st-century Detroit when he is mortally wounded and rebuilt by cybernetic enhancements so that he can keep fighting crime.
Nearly 40 years on, a…
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Scientists Recreate Embryo Implantation In The Lab – Asian Scientist Magazine
AsianScientist (Oct. 28, 2025) – Every new pregnancy balances on the success of a fertilized egg to implant—latching on and burrowing into the lining of the uterus. This multi-step, synchronized process is often the weakest link in…
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Telford cancer patient fundraising £120k for chemotherapy treatment
Chloe HughesWest Midlands
PA MediaJamie Scott has been told she cannot access the treatment, so she is trying to pay for it herself A cancer patient who works at the NHS is trying to raise £120,000 for chemotherapy after she was refused the…
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Bird flu confirmed in Wellingborough after swan deaths reported
Kris HollandNorthamptonshire
Getty ImagesDefra reported that avian flu was found to be present in four mute swans Avian flu has been confirmed in six wild birds in Northamptonshire, according to government data.
Figures issued by the Department for…
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NHS to offer same-day prostate cancer diagnosis
Men with suspected prostate cancer will be able to get a diagnosis from the NHS within a day, under a new trial hailed as a potential “game changer” for identifying and treating the disease.
The 15 hospitals taking part will use AI technology to…
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The moment a stroke happens, the clock starts to count down – The Irish Times
Every second matters when a haemorrhage or clot disrupts blood flow to the brain and cells up there begin to die.
Known as a stroke, it will happen to one in four of us.
It is then a race against time, in which both the public and health…
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