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New Study Links Cellular Transport Pathway to Aggressive Brain Cancer

New Study Links Cellular Transport Pathway to Aggressive Brain Cancer

A new cellular pathway that limits the growth and spread of brain tumors by controlling the recycling of cell surface receptor proteins has been discovered by McGill University researchers. Glioblastoma is the most aggressive type of ...

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How Ovarian Cancer Cells Spread In The Abdomen

How Ovarian Cancer Cells Spread In The Abdomen

A detailed study was conducted to show how ovarian cancer cells adapt to survive and proliferate in the peritoneal cavity. The researchers found that as the disease progresses, there is change in the structures inside the cells. This helps the cells to grow in an otherwise hostile environment of low nutrients and oxygen....

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Diet & Nutrition News »

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Overactive Food Quality Control System Triggers Food Allergies

Overactive Food Quality Control System Triggers Food Allergies

An expanded explanation for the rise of food allergies -- the exaggerated activation of our food quality control system, a complex and highly evolved program designed to protect us against eating harmful foods has been proposed by four Yale ...

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Which Recurrent Brain Tumors Respond To Immunotherapy?

Which Recurrent Brain Tumors Respond To Immunotherapy?

Glioblastoma brain tumors are especially complex and puzzling. These tumors are lethal and they occasionally respond to new immunotherapies after they have grown back. Only 20 percent of the patients live well beyond predicted survival times....

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Link Between Smoking and a Higher Risk of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Identified

Link Between Smoking and a Higher Risk of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Identified

Smoking is associated with a serious type of stroke called subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), according to new research published today in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association. ...

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Vaccines Against Leishmaniasis Layout Disease Treatment Strategy

Vaccines Against Leishmaniasis Layout Disease Treatment Strategy

Leishmaniasis vaccines can be tested using a controlled human infection model as per The University of York-led study. The team has revealed a new strain of Leishmania parasite that can be characterized to form the basis of a new controlled human ...

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Probiotic Coffee and Tea Offer Healthy Alternative to Traditional Probiotics

Probiotic Coffee and Tea Offer Healthy Alternative to Traditional Probiotics

New probiotic coffee and tea drinks that are packed with taste and gut-friendly live probiotics are created by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS). The drink can be stored chilled or at room temperature for more than ...

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Autism may be Detected by Sperm Epigenetics

Autism may be Detected by Sperm Epigenetics

Biomarkers in human sperm can indicate if a father can inherit autism spectrum disorder to his children. The biomarkers are found to be epigenetic – molecular changes in factors regulating genome activity, such as gene expression independent of DNA ...

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Medical Cannabis For Pain Shows Multiple Withdrawal Symptoms

Medical Cannabis For Pain Shows Multiple Withdrawal Symptoms

A new study has found that more than half of people who use medical marijuana products to ease pain also experience clusters of multiple withdrawal symptoms when they’re between uses....

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Women Health News »

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Sexual Harassment Claims by Less Feminine Women Perceived as Less Credible, Says Study

Sexual Harassment Claims by Less Feminine Women Perceived as Less Credible, Says Study

Women who do not fit female stereotypes were less likely to be seen as sexual harassment victims. If they claim they were harassed, they are less likely to be believed, revealed research published by the American Psychological ...

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Mental Health News »

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Tips to Reduce Work-related Stress

Tips to Reduce Work-related Stress

Taking a stroll in green spaces improves mental health and manages work-related stress, suggested a new study. The study, published in the journal Public Health in Practice, also indicated that people with strong "sense of coherence" ...

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Suicide Worsens Neurocognitive Functioning

Suicide Worsens Neurocognitive Functioning

Family history of suicide attempts in the children and adolescents worsens their neurocognitive functioning such as, lower executive functioning, shorter attention spans, and poorer language reasoning as compared to those without a family history, ...

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Genetics & Stem Cells News »

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Intestinal Stem Cell: New Approach To Treatment

Intestinal Stem Cell: New Approach To Treatment

The gut is known to play an important role in the regulation of the body's metabolism and its dysfunction is associated with a variety of diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, colitis and colorectal cancer that affect millions of people worldwide. ...

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Environmental Health »

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Climate Change Hurts Children's Diets

Climate Change Hurts Children's Diets

Higher temperatures are an equal or even more significant contributor to child malnutrition and low-quality diets than the traditional culprits of poverty, inadequate sanitation, and poor education. The 19-nation study is the largest ...

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Heart Disease News »

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Acting Quickly After Heart Attack Symptoms Start can be a Heart Saver: Study

Acting Quickly After Heart Attack Symptoms Start can be a Heart Saver: Study

The longer the time between when heart attack symptoms start and when a patient has an artery-clearing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the more the heart muscle damage, according to new research published today in Circulation: ...

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Coronavirus News »

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Mental Health Issues Dampen Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccines

Mental Health Issues Dampen Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccines

Mental health issues like depression, stress, and loneliness can weaken the body's immune system and lower the effectiveness of the new COVID-19 vaccines, aid new report accepted for publication in Perspectives on Psychological Science. ...

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Possible Coronavirus Presence in Brazil Since Dec'19

Possible Coronavirus Presence in Brazil Since Dec'19

New study reveals the presence of IgG antibodies in serum samples back in December'19. IgG antibodies are specific for SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19. ...

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Breathing Slowly may Increase the Risk to COVID-19

Breathing Slowly may Increase the Risk to COVID-19

Many may hold their breath or breathe slower to protect themselves from COVID infection as they pass by an individual with or without a mask. Well, this may just not work right and instead only increase the risk of contracting the infection as per a ...

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Inadequate Food During COVID-19 Worsens Mental Health

Inadequate Food During COVID-19 Worsens Mental Health

Global COVID-19 pandemic has not only devastated the immunity of people but also caused a 25% increase in food insufficiency as per a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Food insufficiency is the most ...

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COVID-19 in India: Streak of Low Daily New Cases

COVID-19 in India: Streak of Low Daily New Cases

India continues its streak of low COVID-19 cases, with overall tally mounting to 1,04,95,147, officials said on Wednesday. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said 202 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours taking the death ...

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