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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia: girls born with genitalia appearing more male than female
Scientists have found a link to hormone production in baby wallabies to how some human girls are born with genitalia that appear more male...
New effective vaccines for Lyme disease are coming
There is no effective vaccine currently available to prevent Lyme disease in humans.
Experts from academia, government, and industry convened at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's...
Common denominator triggers asthma in favourable environments
In recent decades, asthma has become a major public health problem.
The exponential increase in asthma cases in industrialised countries over the past 50 years...
Study shows fish eaten in early childhood can reduce risk of disease
A new study suggests that children should be introduced to fish or cod liver oil early in life, from when they are about a...
Nobel Prize research opens up new anaemia and cancer treatment
This year's Nobel Prize research winners have paved the way for promising new strategies for fighting anaemia, cancer treatment and other diseases.
Nobel Prize in...
Why viruses like Herpes and Zika will need to be reclassified
New findings reveal many different structural models of viruses like Herpes and Zika, which can eventually lead to developing more targeted antiviral vaccines.
The research...
UK Tick-borne Lyme disease cases may be higher than thought
New cases of tick-borne Lyme disease in the UK may be three times higher than previous estimates suggest. The finding suggest that new cases...
Discover the joint venture to develop therapeutics targeting chronic inflammatory conditions
Therapeutics for chronic inflammatory conditions may come sooner than you think as Tetra Bio-Pharma announce joint venture with Thorne and Onegevity Health to form...
Multiple genes affect risk the of developing asthma, hay fever and eczema
Researchers at Uppsala University have found a total of 141 genes in our genetic material that largely explain the genetic risk of developing asthma,...
TILRAY: the medical cannabis research global leader
Medical cannabis is rapidly gaining momentum across the globe, and Tilray Inc. is pioneering the production, research, and distribution of medical cannabis.
This ebook explores...
Universal meningitis vaccination is not cost-effective for all
According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, providing universal meningitis vaccination against infection may be too costly to justify cases it would prevent.
Meningitis vaccination is highly...
We need to focus more on antidepressant withdrawal relief
Researchers analyse data that can guide antidepressant discontinuation and enable an individual to experience some form of antidepressant withdrawal relief.
There has been a significant...
Tinnitus hearing loss may be avoided amongst a younger population
Experts highlight how Tinnitus hearing loss amongst a younger population could be avoided with a simple check-up.
There are more than six million people in...
New inner ear neurons discovered: the potential for new hearing therapies
Researchers have identified new inner ear neurons, which may lead to new hearing therapies to treat disorders.
The team at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden...
UK man diagnosed with antibiotic-resistant super-gonorrhoea infection
A UK man has been diagnosed with the worst-ever case of an antibiotic-resistant super-gonorrhoea infection, which cannot be cured with first choice treatments.
The unidentified...
Air pollution responsible for up to 38% of annual childhood asthma in UK
A new study from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain, has found that up to 38% of the number of annual childhood...
Teenagers invited to join meningitis B trial to aid immunisation research
The Oxford Vaccine Group is inviting year 12 school students across the UK to participate in a research project which aims to understand whether...
Daily ibuprofen can prevent Alzheimer’s disease
A research team of neuroscientists based in Vancouver, Canada, have carried out studies which suggest that having a daily regimen of non-prescription ibuprofen could...
Number of tuberculosis cases falls by over a third in last six years
Newly released data from Public Health England (PHE) has shown a 9.3% decline in cases of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, which represents the lowest...
Respiratory infections increase risk of heart attack and stroke
People who have had respiratory infections are six times more likely to suffer from a heart attack or stroke in the days following infection,...
