The human oral cavity is colonised by a huge variety of bacteria. When surgical procedures such as a tooth extraction
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Alcohol-related cirrhosis deaths skyrocket in young adults: Increase in liver deaths highlights new challenges in preventing cirrhosis deaths beyond hepatitis
Deaths from cirrhosis rose in all but one state between 1999-2016, with increases seen most often among young adults, a
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Allergic responses may protect against skin cancer
The components of the immune system that trigger allergic reactions may also help protect the skin against cancer, suggest new
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Obesity alone does not increase risk of death: New study could change the way we think about obesity and health
Researchers at York University’s Faculty of Health have found that patients who have metabolic healthy obesity, but no other metabolic
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Overcoming a major barrier to developing liquid biopsies: A new study helps set standards for RNA sequencing, improving consistency and laying the foundation to move the field forward
The idea of testing blood or urine to find markers that help diagnose or treat disease holds great promise. But
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Crowdsourcing friendly bacteria helps superbug cause infection
Antimicrobial resistant pathogens crowdsource friendly bacteria to survive in immune cells and cause disease, a new study by the University
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Drug’s impact on amino acid transporter may offer non-small cell lung cancer patients new hope
An amino acid transporter named xCT may affect the growth and progression of non-small cell lung cancer, a discovery that
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Pay less, take more: Success in getting patients to take their medicine: Basing patients’ medication costs on the health benefits they’ll get from a drug, rather than its price, means they’re more likely to take it
Taking a medicine every day in the hopes that it will prevent some long-range potential health catastrophe — like a
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Gene therapy shown to cure type 2 diabetes and obesity in mice, researchers report
A research team from the UAB led by Professor Fatima Bosch has managed to cure obesity and type 2 diabetes
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Gonorrhea researchers identify novel route to vaccine, new antibiotic
Researchers have identified a protein that powers the virulence of the bacteria that causes gonorrhea, opening the possibility of a
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