Neuroscience
Research offers new hope for people living with seizures
A research collaboration involving the University of Otago could change the lives of people living with seizures.
Mar 22, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Step away from the table: Why you keep eating when you're full
Ever eaten that last slice of pizza, even though you've had enough? Or polished off kids' leftovers, despite already feeling full?
Dec 31, 2021
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Medications
Drugs and the sun: Your daily medications could put you at greater risk of sunburn
With summer holidays underway, it's time to think about the sun and your skin. Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world, so we need to be doing more to protect ourselves from the damaging effects of ultraviolet ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Health
Why having bad oral health could raise the risk of COVID
Not brushing your teeth will get you in trouble with the dentist—but since the arrival of the pandemic, it could lead to bigger problems too. There's growing evidence that poor oral health raises the risk posed by COVID.
Nov 15, 2021
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Medical research
Infrared spectroscopic profiling can pick up molecular traces of solid tumors in blood
Cancers can grow in numerous places within our bodies and present tremendous threat to our health. But if one could spot cancerous growth early on, the chances to win over it would be higher. Are there ways of achieving this? ...
Nov 4, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
New study to develop personalized therapies for triple-negative breast cancer patients
Indiana University School of Medicine researcher Bryan P. Schneider, MD, is leading a novel nationwide study to better understand how to treat patients with triple-negative breast cancer based on their own unique genetic ...
Oct 27, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Breakthrough malaria vaccine reinvigorates the fight against the disease
The World Health Organization has announced a historic move: It has recommended the widespread use of the first ever malaria vaccine. The recommendation is based on the results of an ongoing pilot program in Malawi, Ghana ...
Oct 8, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Advanced imaging reveals breast cancer's Achilles' heel
For breast cancer patients, standard-of care therapies become drastically less effective if their tumor has spread to other parts of the body, such as the lung.
Sep 17, 2021
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Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes treatment plans may need to be different for older adults
Around 6% of the world's population suffer from type 2 diabetes. People of any age can develop the condition, but the number of older adults with type 2 diabetes is rapidly increasing worldwide. In fact, adults over the age ...
Sep 8, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Hidden malaria life cycle discovered in the spleen
Groundbreaking studies published today in the New England Journal of Medicine and PLOS Medicine have found large numbers of malaria parasites hiding in the human spleen where they actively multiply in a previously unrecognized ...
May 27, 2021
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