Prevention

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What Is Glaucoma and How Does It Damage Vision? Health

What Is Glaucoma and How Does It Damage Vision?

Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, silently destroying the optic nerve over years before most people notice any symptoms...

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How HIV PrEP Works: From Daily Pills to 6-Month Shots Health

How HIV PrEP Works: From Daily Pills to 6-Month Shots

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has transformed HIV prevention. Here's how it works — from blocking the virus in your bloodstream to the breakthrough...

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How Habit Formation Works in the Brain Health

How Habit Formation Works in the Brain

Around 65% of our daily behaviors run on autopilot — but how does the brain actually turn a deliberate action into an automatic habit? The answer lies...

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How HIV Prevention Drugs Work: From Pills to Injections Health

How HIV Prevention Drugs Work: From Pills to Injections

PrEP medications have transformed HIV prevention from near-certain infection to near-zero risk. Here's how these drugs block the virus—and why a new t...

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What Is Dravet Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat? Health

What Is Dravet Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat?

Dravet syndrome is a rare, catastrophic form of epilepsy that begins in infancy, resists most standard medications, and is caused by a single faulty g...

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How PrEP Works: From Daily Pills to Twice-Yearly Shots Health

How PrEP Works: From Daily Pills to Twice-Yearly Shots

Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, has transformed HIV prevention. A new twice-yearly injectable drug called lenacapavir works by targeting the virus'...

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Hepatitis A Outbreak Closes Prague Restaurant: Nine Infected Health

Hepatitis A Outbreak Closes Prague Restaurant: Nine Infected

Prague's public health authority has confirmed a hepatitis A outbreak at a restaurant in Prague 6. Nine people, including the owner, have fallen ill....

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LRG1 Protein Unmasked as Root Cause of Diabetic Blindness Health

LRG1 Protein Unmasked as Root Cause of Diabetic Blindness

Scientists at UCL have identified the protein LRG1 as the earliest trigger of diabetic retinopathy, constricting retinal blood vessels before any visi...

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How Fatty Liver Disease Works—and Why It's So Common Health

How Fatty Liver Disease Works—and Why It's So Common

Once overlooked, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) now affects roughly one in three adults worldwide. Here's how fat si...

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What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Causes Blindness Health

What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Causes Blindness

Diabetic retinopathy is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness in working-age adults. Here's how high blood sugar silently destroys the ey...

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What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Damages Vision Health

What Is Diabetic Retinopathy and How It Damages Vision

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults worldwide. Here is how high blood sugar silently destroys the eye's light...

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Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Treat Health

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Treat

Pancreatic cancer kills more than 90% of patients within five years of diagnosis. Here is why this disease is so uniquely difficult to detect, fight,...

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