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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 Hemozoin and How It Powers Malaria Parasites Science

What Is Hemozoin and How It Powers Malaria Parasites

Hemozoin is a tiny iron crystal that malaria parasites produce to survive inside red blood cells. Understanding how it works has led to life-saving dr...

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Breakthrough in Brain Cancer: Virus Makes Glioblastoma Vulnerable Science

Breakthrough in Brain Cancer: Virus Makes Glioblastoma Vulnerable

American researchers have used a modified herpes virus to deliver immune cells deep into glioblastoma tumors, significantly improving survival rates f...

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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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How Oncolytic Viruses Turn Cancer Against Itself Science

How Oncolytic Viruses Turn Cancer Against Itself

Oncolytic virus therapy uses genetically engineered viruses that selectively infect and destroy cancer cells while activating the immune system to hun...

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How Shingles Damages the Heart—and How to Stop It Health

How Shingles Damages the Heart—and How to Stop It

Shingles isn't just a painful rash. The varicella-zoster virus can invade blood vessels, trigger inflammation, and raise the risk of heart attack and...

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What Is Terahertz Radiation and How Does It Work? Science

What Is Terahertz Radiation and How Does It Work?

Terahertz radiation occupies a little-known slice of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and infrared light. Once dismissed as a technolog...

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How a Mouth Bacterium Fuels Cancer Growth Science

How a Mouth Bacterium Fuels Cancer Growth

Fusobacterium nucleatum, a common oral bacterium linked to gum disease, can travel through the bloodstream to fuel tumor growth in the colon, breast,...

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What Is Sleeping Sickness and How Does It Kill? Health

What Is Sleeping Sickness and How Does It Kill?

African sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies that invades the brain, disrupts sleep cycles, and kills without treatment. He...

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How GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic Work—and Why They Matter Health

How GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic Work—and Why They Matter

GLP-1 receptor agonists mimic a natural gut hormone to regulate blood sugar, suppress appetite, and promote weight loss. Originally developed for diab...

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Coffee and Tea Linked to 18% Lower Dementia Risk Health

Coffee and Tea Linked to 18% Lower Dementia Risk

A landmark 43-year study of over 131,000 people finds that drinking 2-3 cups of caffeinated coffee or 1-2 cups of tea daily is associated with signifi...

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