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Weight-loss program helps women battling breast cancer

Women battling breast cancer can benefit from a phone-based weight loss program, according to a new study. The Breast Cancer Weight Loss (BWEL) program helped women drop excess pounds, improve their physical function and ...

Researchers shape guidance for cancer screening

University of Warwick researchers have played a central role in developing new position statements from the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), setting out how emerging cancer screening technologies should be evaluated ...

Running the numbers shows ivermectin could help beat malaria

When a stranger from Spain called Cassidy Rist in her first months at Virginia Tech, she almost didn't take the meeting. The caller was Carlos Chaccour, a physician at the University of Navarra who worked on global health ...

Health care is facing a moral emergency, argue experts

Health care has lost its human, moral, and relational foundations and must reconnect with its core values to improve both patient and staff well-being, argue experts in The BMJ. Despite unprecedented advances in diagnostic ...

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