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Dame Valerie Beral obituary

Distinguished epidemiologist who showed the pill was safe and shed light on many other health issues

The Guardian - UK

This common mosquito-borne virus can be deadly — and researchers don’t know enough about it

La Crosse virus is carried and transmitted primarily by the eastern tree-hole mosquito, Aedes triseriatus, and the infection can be deadly in some cases.

Inverse

Health scare forces Alan Hughes to miss Ireland AM shows as he reveals hospital visit

He has said he worries about cancer after losing both his siblings to the disease.

Irish Mirror

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Parkinson's could be detected earlier through use of artificial intelligence

Researchers at Leicester University think they have successfully created the world's first artificial intelligence system capable of detecting Parkinson's in people

Daily Mirror

Readers reply: if everyone isolated for a month, would all transmissible diseases disappear?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The Guardian - UK

Why gender is at the heart of the matter for cardiac illness

Studies show that women with heart disease are more likely to be misdiagnosed than men, and will have worse outcomes for surgery. What is behind this bias and how can how it be fixed?

The Guardian - UK

‘Tomato fever’ makes news again as Kerala doctors reproach the Lancet report

The BMJ reported on September 13 that The Lancet has refused to publish a letter by doctors from Kerala, urging that the ‘unscientific article’ be retracted

The Hindu

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Pancreatic cancer under spotlight as cities light up in purple in November to raise deadly disease's profile

Judi Adams has spent decades raising awareness of breast cancer. But after her own shock diagnosis of pancreatic cancer she's literally shining a light on the disease she says is less talked about.

ABC News

Call for more research into childhood dementia, a disease that kills almost as many kids as cancer

About 90 children die in Australia every year from childhood dementia — a similar number of deaths as from childhood cancer, which receives 20 times more government funding for research.

ABC News

Bluebird’s gene therapy for brain disease receives accelerated approval

Bluebird Bio Inc.’s gene therapy for a brain-wasting disease received accelerated approval from U.S. regulators, making it the first treatment of its kind for children living with cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy.

Tribune News Service

WHO raises alarm on disease in flood-hit areas of Pakistan

The World Health Organization is raising the alarm about a “second disaster” in the wake of the deadly floods in Pakistan this summer, as doctors and medical workers on the ground race to battle outbreaks of waterborne and other diseases

The Independent UK

FDA Okays bluebird bio's $3M Gene Therapy For Rare Neurological Disorder In Boys: What Investors Should Know

Biotechnology company, bluebird bio, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLUE) announced late Friday that the Food and Drug Administration approved its gene therapy for a rare neurodegenerative disease.

Benzinga

Step lively: Walking pace matters as much as the number of steps you take

Walking at a faster pace is linked to lower risk of dementia, heart disease, cancer and death, over and above a total of 10,000 daily steps.

The New Daily

Researchers find macrophages may be scavenger cells of the immune system

Alveoli are microscopic air sacs in our lungs that exchange gases between the air we breathe and our blood. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Study: Balanced meal timing may enhance brain health

Epidemiological studies have shown a correlation between the temporal distribution of energy intake during a day (TPEI) and the risk of various chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Read more on Dynamite News:

Los Angeles Times

Riverside County reports its first MPX case in a child under 10

Riverside County, California, has reported its first pediatric case of MPX, in a child under 10 years old.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sickle cell disease — how one Black family is coping with the illness and inspiring others along the way

September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. The blood disorder occurs among about one of every 365 Black births and one of every 16,300 Latino births, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Hindu

Free medicine for leaf spot disease in areca

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The Independent UK

8 things science warn will accelerate ageing

As a new study confirms drinking too much really does make you look older, Lisa Salmon looks into other lifestyle factors that may contribute too

Glasgow Live

Heart attack symptoms explained as influx of young women experiencing condition

Medical health experts have warned groups of younger women that health providers may miss heart attack symptoms, even if all of them are presenting themselves.

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Majestic' Greek 'Zorba' Star Irene Papas Dies at 93

Greek-born actor Irene Papas, famous for her fiery appearances in the internationally acclaimed "The Guns of Navarone" and "Zorba the Greek", died Wednesday at the age of 93. Greece's Culture Minister Lina Mendoni in a statement said Papas was "majestic" and "the personification of Greek beauty on the cinema screen…

Edinburgh Live

DWP shares new benefit that will provide up to £156 a week for claimants

Thousands of claimants across the UK are receiving cash payments of between £97.80 and £627.60 each month through the Personal Independence Payments (PIP) scheme.

WEKU

Scientists debate how lethal COVID is. Some say it's now less risky than flu

They argue the threat posed by COVID has lessened because of preexisting immunity and access to treatment. Plus, some deaths may be incorrectly blamed on COVID. Others caution it's too soon to tell.

Reuters

Children, women prone to diseases in Pakistan's stagnant flood water

Children and women are becoming more vulnerable as tens of thousands of people suffer from infectious and water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan and the death toll from the inundation surpassed 1,500, according to government data and UNICEF on Friday.

Bangkok Post

New monkeypox case is returnee from Qatar

Thailand's eighth confirmed monkeypox case is a 23-year-old Thai service provider who returned from Qatar on Tuesday, the chief of the Department of Disease Control said on Friday.

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