Food allergies are slowly increasing within first world countries. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 8% of children and 11% of adults are affected by food allergies in America. Allergic reactions to food occur…
Category: 5. Health
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UnitedHealth Group Profits Eclipse $6 Billion But Warns Of Rising Medicare Costs
UnitedHealth Group’s 2025 first quarter profits eclipsed $6 billion but the nation’s largest health … More
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‘Probably Needed A Hug’ Trends On TikTok. Here’s What It Shows
People have been posting videos on TikTok using the catchphrase “probably needed a hug” to show … More
In the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, one of the characters Sammy…
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Golden eyes: How gold nanoparticles may one day help to restore people’s vision
A new study by Brown University researchers suggests that gold nanoparticles — microscopic bits of gold thousands of times thinner than a human hair — might one day be used to help restore vision in people with macular degeneration and other retinal disorders.
In a study published in the…
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How do age, sex, hormones and genetics affect dementia biomarkers in the blood?
A new study has found important clues about the roles age, sex, hormonal changes and genetics play in how certain biomarkers for dementia are expressed in the blood, according to a study published on April 16, 2025, online in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Discovery of FOXR2 activation in various brain tumors refines diagnosis to improve care
Physicians classify brain tumors and determine treatment options, in part, by the genes they express. According to World Health Organization standards, the abnormal activation of oncogene FOXR2 only occurs in central nervous system (CNS) neuroblastoma, but that may not be true. Findings from St….
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Researchers report association between urinary incontinence, cardiovascular disease
A University of Iowa-led research team has found that urinary incontinence may be associated with a greater risk for cardiovascular disease in women.
Urinary incontinence — the loss of bladder control — is a common condition, especially in older adults. Previous studies have stated that it can…
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Structural images of a tuberculosis-fighting virus
Mycobacteria are the world’s most deadly bacteria — causing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these infections are desperately needed, as the number of cases of antibiotic-resistant mycobacteria is on…
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Menopause at an early age can exacerbate cognitive decline
A team of researchers from the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science found that women who entered menopause before the age of 40 had worse cognitive outcomes than women who entered menopause after the age of 50. This finding may be…
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Our DNA is at risk of hacking, warn scientists
Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) — the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease tracking, and gene research — could become a prime target for hackers.
A study, published in IEEE Access, highlights growing concerns…
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