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Doctors vote to go ahead with this week's five-day strike
It comes after ministers made fresh offer amid warning the walkout is risky as NHS battles wave of flu.
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Emotions Play a Role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from abdominal pain even between acute inflammatory flare-ups. Altered processing of pain in response to...
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The Leapfrog Group unveils 2025 Top Hospital awardees
The Leapfrog Group said more organizations received the Top Hospital award this year due to improvements in some patient safety metrics.
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Tracking Sudan’s humanitarian crisis: By the numbers
Nearly three years of war have displaced 14 million people and pushed 21 million into acute hunger.
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Cannabis compounds show unexpected power against ovarian cancer
Scientists have discovered that key compounds from cannabis—CBD and THC—show surprisingly strong effects against ovarian cancer cells. Used together, they slow cell growth, reduce colony formation, and may even block the cancer’s ability to spread. Even more promising, the treatment caused minimal h…
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Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells
Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both conditions were linked to significantly fewer NK cells—especially the circulating types responsible …
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The Roots of Dementia Trace Back to Childhood
Michael Irving, Science Alert Dementia is often associated with older people,...
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Normalizing Blood Sugar Cuts Heart Attack Risk in Half
Universitat Tubingen For the first time, an international analysis has shown that when people with prediabetes bring their blood glucose back into the normal range through lifestyle changes,...
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Watch: How Sir Chris Hoy's family found strength after his cancer diagnosis
Sir Chris Hoy and wife Lady Sarra talk about how they have helped their children understand his terminal cancer diagnosis.
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Indoor tanning triples melanoma risk and seeds broad DNA mutations
Researchers discovered that tanning beds cause widespread, mutation-laden DNA damage across almost all skin, explaining the sharply increased melanoma risk. Single-cell genomic analysis revealed dangerous mutations even in sun-protected regions. Survivors’ stories underscore how early tanning habits…
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Don't call it a 'super flu' - but the NHS is right to be worried this winter | Devi Sridhar
An early flu season, a new variant and poor takeup of vaccines leave the already vulnerable health service in a dangerous positionProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghYou might be feeling stressed out seeing the headlines about “super flu” and comparing th…
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‘Oysters are a risk, as is raw meat’: why you get food poisoning – and how to avoid it
Several kinds of bacteria can give you an upset stomach. Here is how to steer clear of the worst offenders, and what to do if they do make it throughMany people in the modern world, it’s probably fair to say, do not take food poisoning particularly seriously. Yes, most folks wash their hands after h…
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CMS releases new payment model to support lifestyle medicine
The MAHA ELEVATE model will provide $100M to as many as 30 proposals that incorporate functional and lifestyle medicine for chronic disease management and prevention.
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Tell us: have you ever had an allergic reaction caused by your clothes?
Synthetic fabrics, particularly from fast fashion retailers, can be treated with a range of hazardous chemicals which can cause an allergic reaction. If you think this is happened to you, we’d like to hear from youHave you suffered any personal health repercussions you suspect may have been caused b…
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Artificial Tanning Genetically Ages Skin by Decades
UC-San Francisco Research reveals that artificial sources of ultraviolet radiation cause cellular mutations that can be the seeds of future cancers, including highly deadly...
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STAT+: Child’s sudden death unnerves a promising area of gene therapy research
Researchers hoped they had finally found a way to get gene therapies past the blood-brain barrier. Then the first patient died.
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Opinion: My patient was gone. I had to help his family see it
My patient was brain-dead, but the ICU machines made him look alive.
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Opinion: Siddhartha Mukherjee: Metabolism is the next frontier in cancer treatment
Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncologist and author of “The Emperor of All Maladies,” asks: What if we change what a tumor can eat?
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Cliff Richard reveals year-long prostate cancer treatment and backs screening call
Singer, 85, says disease has ‘gone at the moment’ and hopes to join forces with King Charles to raise awarenessCliff Richard has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer for the past year. The 85-year-old singer said his cancer had “gone at the moment” and backed calls for a national screeni…
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