Once considered rare, early-onset cancer is now an alarming reality. More young adults are getting … More
Cancer is typically thought of as a disease of aging. That is…
Category: 5. Health
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Fat-rich fluid fuels immune failure in ovarian cancer
New research led by Irish scientists has uncovered how lipid-rich fluid in the abdomen, known as ascites, plays a central role in weakening the body’s immune response in advanced ovarian cancer. The findings offer new insights into immune…
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Dutch Court Case On Humira Assesses Whether Its Price Was `Excessive’
Packaging for AbbVie’s drug, Humira (adalimumab). The Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation in … More
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Antibiotics from human use are contaminating rivers worldwide, study shows
Millions of kilometres of rivers around the world are carrying antibiotic pollution at levels high enough to promote drug resistance and harm aquatic life, a McGill University-led study warns.
Published in PNAS Nexus, the study is the first to…
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A more realistic look at DNA in action
By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA’s environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that strand separation — the essential process a “resting” double helix undergoes before it can initiate replication or…
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AMA Picks WebMD Doctor With U.S. Health Policy Background As New CEO
The American Medical Association Friday named as its new CEO Dr. John J. Whyte a former chief … More
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Novel, needle-free, live-attenuated influenza vaccines with broad protection against human and avian virus subtypes
A research team led by the School of Public Health in the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in collaboration with the Centre for Immunology & Infection (C2i), has achieved a significant breakthrough in developing…
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Researchers map 7,000-year-old genetic mutation that protects against HIV
Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose — and how it protected our ancestors from ancient diseases.
What do a millennia-old human from the Black Sea region and…
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Colonic inflammation explains missing link between obesity and beta-cell proliferation
Researchers at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine have uncovered a key primary step in the hepatic ERK pathway that leads to increased insulin production. While their previous work focused on aspects of the signaling pathway from…
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An enzyme as key to protein quality
A special enzyme — the so-called ubiquitin-selective unfoldase p97/VCP — is one of the main players when cells remove malformed or excess proteins from their interior. This is the central finding of a new study, the results of which have now…
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