With support from artificial intelligence, an international group of scientists has taken an important early step toward creating more effective defenses against the monkeypox virus (MPXV). This virus can cause intense pain and, in severe cases,…
Category: 6. Health
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Risk-Based Screening Works as Well as Yearly Checks After 40 in Finding Breast Cancers – The New York Times
- Risk-Based Screening Works as Well as Yearly Checks After 40 in Finding Breast Cancers The New York Times
- A New Study Challenges the Way We Screen for Breast Cancer Time Magazine
- New study questions what we know about who should get mammograms…
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Young tanning bed users show accelerated genetic aging in the skin
Tanning bed users are known to have a higher risk of skin cancer, but for the first time researchers have found that young indoor tanners undergo genetic changes that can lead to more mutations in their skin cells than people twice…
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New discovery offers real hope for rare genetic disease
Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) is an uncommon but very serious inherited condition. Symptoms usually appear in childhood or early adolescence, often between ages 5 and 15, and many affected individuals live only into their 30s or 40s. There is…
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Switching drugs may boost cancer treatment effectiveness
Reading time: < 1 minuteUH Cancer Center A University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center study suggests that breast cancer patients may benefit longer from antibody-drug treatments if doctors switch to a different drug type after the first one stops…
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Human heart organoids enable new therapies for atrial fibrillation
Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it’s been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been developed. This is because…
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Interdisciplinary project aims reduce noise exposure for premature children in neonatal care
Premature babies are particularly susceptible to strong sensory impressions and high sound levels from the incubator. Now researchers will look at what can be done to protect children’s hearing and development.
Many parents of…
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Varenicline helps young people quit nicotine vaping regardless of cannabis use
Adolescent and young adult nicotine vaping has become an urgent public health concern, as 2024 marked the first year that nicotine vaping was the most initiated drug. Though vaping is the most common way young people use nicotine,…
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Exploring melatonin therapeutic potential in systemic lupus erythematosus
A recent review published in Current Molecular Pharmacology explores the therapeutic potential of melatonin in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a complex autoimmune disease affecting multiple organs. The study, led by researchers…
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