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“We don’t just want to find the genes involved in cancer,” says Prof. Yardena Samuels of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Department of Molecular Cell Biology, “we want to understand what those genes do. We want to reveal the complete picture of a cancer genome.” That is something of a tall order, considering that cells

Patients with persistent facial pain are costing the economy more than £3,000 each per year, new research has revealed. Experts at Newcastle University, UK, say introducing an electronic referral system to speed up diagnosis and treatment is likely to improve quality of life and save money. The team has assessed the hidden costs of people

MONDAY, July 16, 2018 — There have been 12 reported cases of people in the United States becoming sick after eating fresh crab meat from Venezuela, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. The agency said the illnesses were caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria and advised people to avoid eating fresh crab meat from Venezuela.

MONDAY, July 16, 2018 — A considerable number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of probiotics, prebiotics, or synbiotics do not report harms-related data and/or safety results, according to a review published online July 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Aïda Bafeta, Ph.D., from the Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, and colleagues examined how harms-related

A new study published in PLOS ONE by researchers from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development examined the long-term impacts of an early childhood program called the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) and found evidence suggesting that the program positively affected children’s executive function and academic achievement during adolescence. The

Severe infections leading to hospitalizations during childhood are associated with lower school achievement in adolescence,reports a study in the July issue of The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (PIDJ). In the nationwide study of nearly 600,000 Danish children, higher numbers of hospitalizations for infections were associated with a reduced probability of completing ninth grade, as well

Adult rats that had been exposed before birth and during nursing to a mixture of chemicals found in a wide range of consumer products have a smaller medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and perform worse on an attention-switching task than rats not exposed to the chemicals early in life. These findings, published in JNeurosci, demonstrate a

Your kitchen could be filled with all the essentials you can think of, but you might find yourself wishing a specific gadget existed to make your life a bit easier. Thanks to Amazon, you can pretty much find any item you had in mind (or didn’t even realize you needed). And when you have an

About 20,000 people in the United States are living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The invariably fatal disease kills the nerve cells that control walking, eating and breathing. Few people survive more than three years after diagnosis. Now, new research led by Washington University School of Medicine in St.

Tennis legend Serena Williams offered up a beautiful message to other mothers after her Wimbledon loss in a postgame interview: "I was playing out there for you today…" An emotional Williams spoke after her defeat and told mothers that they can still achieve great things after having a child and not to give up on

Some patients who have the “CoolSculpting” procedure end up with firmer fat. Getty Images Imagine a quick, nonsurgical procedure that could reduce stubborn areas of fat. It’s virtually painless, touted as safe, and has zero downtime. Sound too good to be true? Meet cryolipolysis. Also known as fat freezing or CoolSculpting, the FDA-cleared procedure uses

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The worsening of dietary habits among youth appears to have no geographical bounds. And improving dietary behaviour has become a critical public health challenge around the globe. This is especially true in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where we have seen a rapid transition from wholesome traditional diets to a more Western diet consisting

Professor of Electronic Engineering Andrew Flewitt is working with researchers at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Cambridge Centre on a more accurate PSA blood test to detect prostate cancer. At present, the test has limitations for diagnosis and has to be sent off to central labs for the results, a process which can take up

Children in England with high-risk neuroblastoma will now be offered a cancer drug that could extend their life. Final recommendations from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) mean children over the age of 12 months, who have responded to previous treatment but have a high risk of their cancer coming back, will

Imperial researchers are looking to protein fragments to help people build up resistance to grass pollen. For hay fever sufferers, the end may be in sight for another year of sniffles, sneezes and itchy eyes caused by grass pollen. But while many people are able to treat their symptoms with over the counter medications, for

Woman, 29, has dangling, overgrown lumps of scar tissue sliced off her ears by Dr Pimple Popper after piercings left her disfigured Amber, from Los Angeles, had large keloid scars on both of her earlobes She had to wear headbands to contain the skin, which hung down from her head  Dr Sandra Lee, aka Dr

Death rates from heart failure are higher for women than men, and hospitalization rates have increased in women while declining in men, found a study from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). “This is the first of a series of studies to examine the sex differences in heart

It’s a subject that blokes dread talking about, with 1 in 4 saying they would rather end their relationship than see a GP about their erectile dysfunction (ED). But it’s a common problem – 59% of British men have struggled to get or keep an erection during sex at some point. So we spoke to

Researches find diseased ticks in 83 new counties across 24 states. Although scientists have long said Lyme disease-carrying ticks haven’t spread, a new nationwide study revealed that the ticks have spread far beyond regions where researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously believed they flourished. According to a CBS News report,