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Scientists Disable Alzheimer's 'Death Switch' in Mice Health

Scientists Disable Alzheimer's 'Death Switch' in Mice

Heidelberg University neurobiologists identified a toxic protein complex driving Alzheimer's progression and used a novel compound to disrupt it in mi...

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Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Catch Early Health

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Catch Early

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate of any major cancer, largely because it hides deep in the body, produces no early symptoms, and resists...

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How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw Health

How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw

Liquid biopsies analyze tiny fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream, offering a minimally invasive way to detect cancer, guide treatmen...

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Ozempic Reduces Depression and Anxiety, Major Study Shows Health

Ozempic Reduces Depression and Anxiety, Major Study Shows

A large Swedish study of nearly 95,000 patients published in The Lancet Psychiatry has confirmed that semaglutide (Ozempic) reduces the risk of worsen...

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Probiotic Bacteria Engineered to Hunt and Kill Tumors Health

Probiotic Bacteria Engineered to Hunt and Kill Tumors

Scientists are programming gut-friendly bacteria to infiltrate tumors and produce cancer-fighting drugs on-site, showing dramatic results in mice and...

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How Fetal Surgery Works—and Why It Matters Health

How Fetal Surgery Works—and Why It Matters

Fetal surgery allows doctors to operate on unborn babies inside the womb, treating life-threatening conditions like spina bifida months before birth....

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New Pill Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in Landmark Trial Health

New Pill Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in Landmark Trial

Merck's experimental oral PCSK9 inhibitor enlicitide slashed LDL cholesterol by up to 60% in a phase 3 trial of nearly 3,000 patients, matching inject...

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How PCSK9 Inhibitors Lower Cholesterol—and Why Health

How PCSK9 Inhibitors Lower Cholesterol—and Why

PCSK9 inhibitors represent a powerful class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that work by preserving the liver's ability to clear LDL from the bloodstrea...

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What Is Orthosomnia and How Sleep Trackers Backfire Health

What Is Orthosomnia and How Sleep Trackers Backfire

Orthosomnia is a growing condition where obsessing over sleep tracker data actually worsens sleep quality. Here's how sleep trackers work, why they ca...

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What Is Water Fluoridation and Why Is It Controversial? Health

What Is Water Fluoridation and Why Is It Controversial?

Water fluoridation has prevented cavities for 80 years, but new research linking fluoride to lower IQ in children has reignited a fierce public health...

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Shingles Vaccine Slashes Heart Risk by Nearly Half Health

Shingles Vaccine Slashes Heart Risk by Nearly Half

A landmark study of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults with heart disease found that shingles vaccination reduced major cardiac events by 46% and all-cause mo...

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How the Endocannabinoid System Works—and Why Cannabis Hijacks It Health

How the Endocannabinoid System Works—and Why Cannabis Hijacks It

The endocannabinoid system is the body's master regulator of mood, pain, and appetite. Here's how it works, why cannabis mimics its signals, and what...

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