Category: 6. Health

Researchers have uncovered and then overcome an obstacle that has led to the failure of pioneering efforts in xenotransplantation, in which an animal kidney is transplanted into a human.

More than 800,000 Americans have late-stage kidney…

“This is one of the first articles to focus on school menus, viewing the canteen as a place of learning where children adopt eating habits that can last a lifetime,” explained Júlia Benito-Cobeña, one of the authors of the study, whose final…

Comparison of early-onset and later-onset cancer incidence

For early-onset cancers in females, thyroid cancer exhibited the highest number of countries (37 out of 44 countries) with statistically significant positive AAPCs, followed by breast…

For decades, Sweden’s traditional tobacco pouch, snus, has stood apart from cigarettes as a safer nicotine alternative. In recent years, nicotine pouches, a modern, tobacco-free evolution of snus, have entered global markets and…

A new real-time imaging study reveals that VR gaming rapidly reshapes the eye’s protective tear layer, raising its temperature and thickening its lipid film. However, overall tear stability and symptoms remain unchanged.

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Colorectal cancer used to be associated with old age, but diagnoses have become increasingly common in adults aged 50 or younger particularly in high-income countries like the United States. The reason for this trend is unclear, but a new…

A new type of cancer cell that “warrants urgent investigation” has been discovered in childhood leukaemia and could impact clinical care. Research into new or repurposed treatments that target this new cell type could give hope to…