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The gut has been linked to many aspects of health in recent years, including the immune system, mood, mental health, autoimmune disease, skin conditions and even cancer. Research has suggested what gives the gut these powers is millions of microbes. What you eat isn’t just nutrition for the body, it also feeds your gut microbes and keeps everything in perfect […]
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A Texas woman, Callie Colwick, developed placenta accreta, a serious pregnancy complication in which the placenta grows too deeply into the uterine wall, at 15 weeks. She spent weeks in the hospital before her son, Quinn, was stillborn. Colwick then experienced severe hemorrhaging and went into septic shock. To save her life, doctors removed her uterus and, later, amputated her […]
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Long life expectancy can be attributed to healthy eating and exercising. As a well-known rule, a healthy, balanced diet should consist of at least five portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables every day. Healthy eating and getting the recommended amount of exercise go hand-in-hand. Now a new study shines a light on how education could also impact a […]
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Researchers at CHU Sainte-Justine and Université de Montréal have discovered a new mechanism involved in the expression of Down syndrome, one of the main causes of intellectual disability and congenital heart defects in children. The study’s findings were published today in Current Biology. Down syndrome (SD), also called trisomy 21 syndrome, is a genetic condition that affects approximately one in […]
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DNA is the hereditary material in humans, a unique cookbook of who we are. This is where you’ll find the answer as to why you have your specific eye and hair colour, or perhaps why you sunburn easily. Imagine your DNA as a giant cookbook with thousands of recipes. These recipes are genes that have to be read every single […]
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The Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board has this week published a report detailing the first six months of the legislation in action in Victoria. The report reveals 52 people legally ended their lives from the time voluntary assisted dying became legal on June 19 last year to the end of December. While the Victorian government is hailing the report as […]
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A 44-year-old woman has opened up about how she had to have her ear amputated following a ‘self-inflicted’ melanoma. Anthea Smith, from Bolton, developed a tanning addition at the age of 14, but was unaware of the serious dangers sunbeds can cause to skin. She first noticed a strange red spot on her outer ear in 2010, but the mark […]
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A leading dental hygienist has warned of the increasing linked between HPV and oral cancer in young people. Whether you’re in a relationship or not, sometimes our inhibitions are forgotten when it comes to safe sex and in the heat of the moment, contraception might slip our minds. But Anna Middleton, who is also the founder of London Hygienist, is […]
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Over the last few decades, birth rates have decreased across the globe. The United States is no exception. Aside from a few years in the mid-2000s, the number of births in the United States have been falling for the last three decades and have now reached their lowest number in 32 years. The country is now below population replacement rates […]
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A first cell atlas of the human thymus gland could lead to new immune therapies to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Newcastle University and Ghent University, Belgium, mapped thymus tissue through the human lifespan to understand how it develops and makes vital immune cells called T cells. In the future, this information could help […]
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