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Bruce Willis’ dementia diagnosis leaves him and wife Emma feeling no hope and directionBruce Willis’ frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in 2022 has intensely impacted him and his family. His wife, Emma Heming Willis, has been o...
Curing the incurable: How is AI revolutionising treatment for ALS, Alzheimer's and Dementia?AI is transforming the fight against neurodegenerative diseases like ALS, Alzheimer's, and dementia by enabling earlier diagnoses and perso...
Indian-American Vinay Prasad takes charge as US vaccine chiefVinay Prasad, an oncologist-hematologist, has been appointed as the new director of the FDA's CBER, overseeing vaccines and genetic medicin...
Does sugar actually feed cancer?While overconsumption of added sugars has been linked to cancer risk, there is no evidence to suggest that sugar itself causes cancer. Rath...
Does Sugar Actually Feed Cancer?The "sugar feeds cancer" narrative goes back to the 1920s, when a German physiologist noticed that some tumor cells consumed more glucose t...
People dying from cardiovascular disease up by 6.2% in pandemic's first year in US: StudyThe biggest increases in the overall number of CVD-related deaths were seen among Asian, Black and Hispanic people, populations most impact...
US reports 1st case of omicron variant in returning travellerThe infected person was identified as a traveller who had returned from South Africa on Nov. 22, developed mild symptoms and tested positiv...
How to protect your brain from agingWalking or moving about, rather than sitting, may be all it takes to help bolster the brain.
Doctors say experimental treatment may have rid man of HIV"These are exciting findings but they're very preliminary," said Dr. Monica Gandhi, an AIDS specialist at the University of California, San...
Beauty pageant contestant suffers massive stroke, undergoes 8 hour surgery to reconstruct faceThe sudden paralytic stroke has left the 20-year-old Julia Hernandez completely devastated.
Short sleepers more likely to catch a coldScientists have long known that sleep is important for our health, with poor sleep linked to chronic illnesses, disease susceptibility and ...
10 jobs that may be taken over by robots in the not so distant futureRobots will come at a cheaper price than human labour and can work without taking breaks. In every possible way they will be more efficient...