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Second-hand smoke: 2.7 billion exposed, 767 million of them children, study finds

Second-hand smoke causes serious health harm, including heart disease, respiratory illness and cancer, and remains a leading cause of preventable death worldwide.

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7 Powerful Benefits of Physiotherapy for Stroke Recovery

A stroke can change everyday life in a matter of minutes. Walking, speaking, reaching for a cup or even maintaining balance may suddenly become difficult. But recovery does not necessarily stop when emergency treatment ends. This is where physiotherapy can become an important part of rehabilitation. Through carefully planned movement,…

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A Hernia and a Swelling Belly Led Surgeons to a Jelly-Like Tumor Spreading from His Appendix

A man's swelling abdomen and new hernia turned out to be pseudomyxoma peritonei, a rare mucin-producing tumor doctors nickname jelly belly.

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Your Pet's Bad Breath Is a Warning Sign of Dental Disease, Not a Hygiene Problem

What Bad Breath Is Actually Telling YouThe smell is hard to ignore, and most owners either laugh it off or assume it's normal for dogs and cats. It isn't. Bad breath in pets, the clinical term is halitosis, is produced by anaerobic bacteria colonising the space between the tooth and…

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The 8 Medical Screening Tests Indians Should Get at 30 for Better Preventive Health

Fasting Blood Sugar and HbA1cIndia has over 101 million people living with diabetes, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research's ICMR-INDIAB study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The majority were undiagnosed for years before their first test. A fasting blood sugar test tells you where you stand…

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6 Mosquito Breeding Spots Inside Indian Homes That Spike Dengue Cases During Monsoon

The Desert Cooler TrayThe desert cooler is the single most productive mosquito breeding site in north Indian homes between June and September. The water tray sits undisturbed for days, sometimes weeks, at exactly the temperature Aedes aegypti prefers for laying eggs. A 2019 entomological survey published in the Journal of…

Times Life

Can what we feed farm animals directly benefit our own health? Our research suggests it can

Several chronic diseases – obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers – have been linked to lifestyle and diets high in calories, based on processed foods and lacking diversity and nutritional value.

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Diet, Exercise and Three Drug Classes Shifted Aging Biomarkers Across 51 Studies While Supplement Evidence Fell Short

A Nature Medicine analysis of 51 trials found that diet, exercise, metformin, semaglutide, and anti-TNF drugs shifted aging markers. Supplement evidence was thin.

Medical Daily

Blood cancer patient still alive eight years after taking part in groundbreaking trial

About 70 per cent of patients who took part in the trial were still alive six years later

The Independent UK

Soybean Sized Lumps Behind His Ears Grew for Thirty Years Before Anyone Cut One Open to Look

A farmer carried matching lumps behind both ears for 30 years, called benign without a biopsy. One blood count finally pointed to the answer.

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Weekly Chili Tracked with Less Fatty Liver, but Only for People Who Kept the Heat Mild

Weekly spicy food tracked with lower fatty liver risk among 23,666 adults followed 12 years, but only at mild and moderate heat levels.

Medical Daily

Swapping Animal Fat for Plant Fat Was Linked to Longer Survival After a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

A study of 4,884 men found that replacing animal fat with plant fat after a prostate cancer diagnosis was linked to 16 percent lower mortality.

Medical Daily

New Mortality Analysis Puts COPD Above Breast and Prostate Cancer Deaths as Rural Americans Carry Heaviest Burden

New research presented in Barcelona found COPD death rates exceeded those of prostate and breast cancer and matched those of heart failure in a national records study.

Medical Daily

First Approved Alexander Disease Treatment Arrives with a List Price Above One Million Dollars Per Year

FDA approved Zanvastro for Alexander disease. Ionis set the list price at $285,000 per dose, or about $1.14 million a year at quarterly dosing.

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Novartis Heart Drug Lowered a Genetic Risk Factor but Did Not Cut Heart Attacks or Strokes

Novartis says pelacarsen missed its main goal in an 8,323-patient late-stage trial, lowering Lp(a) without reducing cardiovascular events.

AAP

'Would have dropped dead': women's heart health lacking

Almost every hour in Australia a woman dies from heart disease, yet many are still "falling through the cracks of care" when it comes to cardiovascular health.

The Conversation

Inside the brain: Rethinking the mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. For many years, researchers believed that its main cause was a buildup of toxic proteins. But recent findings suggest that the problem may have another origin, specifically in the bloodstream.

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Your Watering Routine Could Be Costing More Than Your Plants Need

Watering the garden feels like one of those chores that cannot possibly go wrong. The hose comes out, the soil gets wet, the plants look refreshed, and everyone goes home happy. But a watering routine that keeps the soil constantly damp can waste water, encourage shallow roots, and create conditions…

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A 19-Year-Old Cricketer's MRI Pointed to Autoimmune Spine Disease, and a CT Scan Found Stress Fractures Instead

A young fast bowler's MRI suggested inflammatory spine disease. A CT scan later revealed the stress fractures that imaging had missed.

Medical Daily

A Bacterium in the Urinary Tract Can Produce Testosterone and Prostate Cancer Researchers Are Paying Attention

Scientists found a urinary tract bacterium that converts DHEA into testosterone in the lab. This does not show that microbes cause prostate cancer.

Medical Daily

A COVID Study of Twelve Women Points to the Same Immune Cells Seen in Lupus Patients

Researchers traced autoantibody production after COVID to DN2 B cells, a population also linked to lupus. The in-depth analysis covered 12 women.

Medical Daily

Two Routine Tests Could Catch Kidney Damage Early in Heart Patients Under New European Cardiology Guidelines

New European cardiology guidelines urge a blood and urine test for every patient diagnosed with heart disease to catch kidney damage early.

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A Rare Brain Disease That Never Had a Treatment Now Has One After First Federal Approval

The FDA approved Zanvastro, the first treatment for Alexander disease, a rare neurological disorder affecting fewer than one in a million people.

The Independent UK

Polycythaemia vera symptoms to know as Maryam Moshiri reveals blood cancer battle

About 15,000 people in Britain live with the disease

The Economic Times

Can dogs sniff cancer? AI joins the hunt in India

When rescue dog Chloe is not tumbling across the grass on a farm outside India's tech capital Bengaluru, she is learning to sniff human breath for cancer with a little help from AI. Fitted with a 3D-printed helmet and harness packed with sensors, Chloe is part of experimental efforts to…

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