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xyz_Chronic anxiety

Many in US take meds with depressive side effects: study

12 Jun 2018 • 4 comments

Tampa, June 12, 2018 (AFP) - One-third of Americans are taking prescription and over-the-counter drugs, such as birth control pills, antacids and common heart medications, that may raise the risk of...

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and NASH
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

NASH: the first World Awareness day for fatty-liver disease

12 Jun 2018

Starting from today, June 12 officially becomes International non-alcoholic steatohepatitis day*, which is a great opportunity to raise awareness about this disease thanks to the NASH community on...

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Canada Senate passes bill legalizing recreational marijuana

8 Jun 2018

Ottawa, June 8, 2018 (AFP) - Canada's Senate passed a bill Thursday legalizing recreational marijuana, moving it closer to becoming the first member of the Group of Seven nations to legalize the...

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Can we 'switch off' the pleasure of sweet tastes?

6 Jun 2018

A new study, published in Nature, suggests that our craving for sweet tastes can be undone by manipulating neurons. The results may eventually help design new strategies for treating eating disorders....

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Prostate cancer

Immunotherapy effective against 'untreatable' prostate cancer

6 Jun 2018 • 1 comment

A major trial has demonstrated, for the very first time, that the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab is effective in treating advanced prostate cancer that did not respond to other treatments. Immunothe...

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Health sector gives blockchain glowing prognosis

6 Jun 2018

Paris, June 6, 2018 (AFP) - Securing safe interchange of patient data, improving the conduct of clinical tests and medicine traceability, and lowering costs. These are just some of the potential...

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Breast cancer

For the first time, immunotherapy cures late-stage breast cancer: study

5 Jun 2018

Paris, June 4, 2018 (AFP) - A woman with an aggressive form of breast cancer which defied chemotherapy and spread to other organs, was cured with an experimental treatment that triggered her immune...

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Breast cancer

Breast cancer: Test means fewer women will need chemotherapy

4 Jun 2018 • 2 comments

About 70% of women with the most common form of early stage breast cancer can be spared the "agony of chemotherapy", researchers say. It follows trials of a genetic test that analyses the danger of a...

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Breast cancer

Six months of breast cancer treatment ‘could be as effective as 12 in some women’

31 May 2018 • 1 comment

Six months of targeted drug therapy could potentially be as effective as treatment lasting 12 months for women with a type of early stage breast cancer. This is according to unpublished clinical...

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Cardiovascular diseases
Eczema

Severe eczema linked to cardiovascular problems

31 May 2018 • 1 comment

Severe eczema in adults is associated with a moderately increased risk of cardiovascular problems. This is the finding from a UK study published by The BMJ. The study, the largest to date to assess...

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Cancer

Cancer death rate to be cut by 22,000 using artificial intelligence – PM

22 May 2018 • 6 comments

Artificial intelligence will be used to help stop 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033, Theresa May will say in a speech setting out how science can transform health. Medical records, along with...

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xyz_Colon cancer

Lung cancer destroyed with tea leaf nanoparticles

21 May 2018 • 8 comments

A new study has shown that lung cancer cells can be destroyed using nanoparticles derived from tea leaves. These tiny particles, called "quantum dots," are 400 times thinner than a human hair, and...

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