Most of us can relate to feeling uncomfortable when someone scrapes their nails down a chalkboard.
For those with the condition misophonia, sounds like slurping, snoring, breathing, and chewing can draw an equally stressful response.
A study…
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Mobile Health Tool Helps Improve Quality of Life For Young Breast Cancer Survivors
Adolescent and young adult breast cancer survivors who used a novel mobile health (mHealth) intervention to self-manage post-treatment symptoms and concerns were able to improve their quality of life and reduce the burden of common symptoms…
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Kenya broadens sexual and reproductive health mobile outreach services for hard-to-reach communities | WHO
Nairobi—Kenya is addressing critical gaps in access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services in six priority counties, including those with health clients that are hard to reach.
The Ministry of Health is implementing a two-year…
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Clinical Trial of Personalized Cancer Vaccine Demonstrates Feasibility, Safety, Immune Activation
The first-in-human clinical phase I trial assessing the feasibility and safety of WDVAX, an immunostimulatory biomaterial-based cancer vaccine, in a cohort of 21 patients with stage 4 metastatic melanoma, was concluded with positive outcomes that…
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Fat tissue around the heart may contribute to greater heart injury after a heart attack
Notes to editor
Funding: Doctor Schulz receives funding from the German Research Foundation and German Centre for Cardiovascular Research.
Disclosures: Ms Hagedorn and Doctor Schulz report no disclosures related to this…
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Recurrent Disseminated Talaromyces marneffei infection Mimicking Liver
Introduction
Talaromycosis, a systemic mycosis caused by Talaromyces marneffei (T. marneffei), is highly endemic in Southeast Asia but is rarely reported elsewhere.1 T. marneffei infection commonly occurs in individuals positive for human…
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expert reaction to the latest UKHSA National flu and COVID-19 surveillance report
Scientists comment on the UK Health Security Agency’s flu and COVID-19 surveillance report.
Prof Antonia…
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expert reaction to study looking at benefits and risks of plant-based diets in children
A study published in the Critical Reviews in Food Science & Nutrition looks at the risks and benefits of vegan…
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Warning about ‘fragile’ health care system amid flu outbreak
Marie-Louise Connolly,Health correspondentand
Catherine Doyle,BBC News NI
Getty ImagesThe health care system in Northern Ireland “is so fragile” that it would only take “one thing to knock it over”, the executive director of the Royal College of…
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Alzheimer's drug hunt learns from cancer fight's multi-target playbook – Reuters
- Alzheimer’s drug hunt learns from cancer fight’s multi-target playbook Reuters
- A Changing Moment in Dementia Research UrbanAsian.com
- Advancing Early Detection and Equitable Access in Alzheimer Disease Care The American Journal of Managed Care®…
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