The concept of cancer vaccines has developed over the last century with initial promise from a young doctor, William Coley. In the late 19th to early 20th century Dr. Coley developed a treatment that elicited…
Category: 8. Health
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Where are those darn keys? Tricks for remembering where you put things
With a scarf dangling from your coat pocket and those gloves left behind at the coffee shop, there are simply more things to lose in winter. That’s not counting your misplaced keys at home or those exasperated moments looking for your phone when…
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A diabetes drug shows surprising promise against heart disease
Research building on earlier work in type 2 diabetes suggests the experimental drug IC7Fc may also help protect against heart disease. A new study reports that the drug can lower cholesterol levels and reduce inflammation, two major contributors…
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A simple blood test could spot Parkinson’s years before symptoms
Researchers led by a team at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have identified biological markers that appear in the earliest stages of Parkinson’s disease, before major damage occurs in the brain. These early changes leave detectable…
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Worrying rise in self-harm among adolescents, with trans, gender diverse and early school leavers most at risk
New research has found that while rates of poor mental health and suicide attempts among Irish adolescents have largely recovered from the peaks seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, repeated self‐harm is increasing, particularly among females….
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Hims & Hers Returns To Super Bowl With Ad That Spotlights The Health-Wealth Gap
Hims and Hers’ 2026 Super Bowl ad, “Rich Peiole Live Longer” focused on the health-wealth gap in the United States
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Digital health platform Hims & Hers is returning to the Super Bowl with another message designed to generate…
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Big data make hidden genetic drivers of type 2 diabetes visible
Numerous genetic studies have identified many risk variants for type 2 diabetes (T2D)—but which genes and proteins are actually involved in the disease mechanisms? An international team led by Helmholtz Munich has now used globally collected…
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A growing nursing shortage is made worse by nurses’ daily challenges of patients and their families rolling their eyes, yelling and striking
Imagine being a dentist, and your clients roll their eyes at you, comment that you don’t know what you’re doing – or even spit at you.
Unimaginable, right? But that’s what nurses experience when patients or their families do the eye…
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Procrastination in adulthood linked to brain development during adolescence
Procrastination, the tendency to unnecessarily delay or put off tasks even if this will have negative consequences, is a common behavior for many people. While occasionally delaying or putting off bothersome tasks is not necessarily problematic,…
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Protein buildup in brain blood vessels linked with increased 5-year risk of dementia
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a condition where protein (called amyloid) builds up in the brain, making blood vessels weak. People with CAA are four times more likely to develop dementia within five years, regardless of whether they have…
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