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Blood Test Shows Alzheimer’s Signature: A Step Toward Easier Screening
Ottawa – Detecting Alzheimer’s disease (AD) biomarkers in blood plasma could offer a simpler, less invasive alternative to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testing, potentially enabling earlier diagnosis and treatment. However, experts urge caution before widespread adoption in primary care.
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From Lab to Life: How mRNA and Materials Science Are Shaping the Future of Medicine
At Johns Hopkins University, materials scientist Hai-Quan Mao is helping lead NIH-funded research that could redefine how we treat cancer, nerve injuries, malaria, and tissue loss—with innovative biomaterials and next-generation RNA therapies.
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World’s First Personalized CRISPR Therapy Successfully Treats Infant with Rare Metabolic Disease
A child with a rare genetic disorder has become the first patient to receive a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy, developed by CHOP and Penn Medicine.
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Europe Faces a Measles Resurgence: Where the Outbreaks Are Hitting Hardest in 2025
Measles, one of the world’s most contagious diseases, is surging again in Europe. After hitting a 25-year high in 2024, the virus continues to spread in 2025, fueled by low vaccination rates, vaccine hesitancy, and increased international travel. Health authorities warn the outbreak could worsen in the months ahead.
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AI Against Sepsis: A Research-Driven Breakthrough Saving Thousands of Lives
An artificial intelligence platform born from federally funded research is transforming how hospitals detect and treat one of medicine’s deadliest threats: Sepsis. Cutting mortality rates and offering a blueprint for future health tech innovation
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La viruela y el frágil estado de preparación ante el bioterrorismo
Mientras el mundo se centra en las ciberamenazas y la guerra convencional, una amenaza más antigua y mortífera permanece latente, esperando el momento oportuno. La viruela, una vez erradicada, podría resurgir no por medios naturales, sino a través del bioterrorismo. Con una inmunidad pública limitada y unas reservas de vacunas que distan mucho de cubrir todo el país, es posible que Estados Unidos no esté tan preparado como cree. La cuestión no es sólo si estamos preparados, sino qué ocurre si no lo estamos.
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Información errónea sobre la vacuna del sarampión: RFK Jr. afirma que la inmunidad «disminuye rápidamente» a pesar de las pruebas
El Secretario de Salud Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promueve la vacunación contra el sarampión, al tiempo que afirma falsamente que la vacuna es segura y eficaz.
El Secretario de Salud, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., está instando a los estadounidenses a vacunarse contra el sarampión, al tiempo que afirma falsamente que su protección se desvanece rápidamente y que faltan pruebas de seguridad. Los expertos advierten de que sus comentarios podrían minar la confianza durante un brote creciente.
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¿Más bajo es mejor? Un nuevo estudio revela que un control más estricto de la presión arterial beneficia a los pacientes mayores de 80 años
Una investigación pionera realizada en Yale pone en tela de juicio los supuestos que se han mantenido durante mucho tiempo sobre los objetivos de la presión arterial en las personas de edad muy avanzada y apunta a mejores resultados cardiacos con un tratamiento más agresivo.
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Descifrar el colesterol LDL: Un descubrimiento que cambia las reglas del juego
Los nuevos conocimientos podrían modificar los tratamientos de las cardiopatías y las pruebas genéticas.
Tras décadas de investigación, los científicos han obtenido una imagen de alta resolución del colesterol LDL que revela cómo interactúa con su receptor en las células humanas. Este avance podría transformar nuestra comprensión del metabolismo del colesterol, los trastornos genéticos y los futuros tratamientos cardiovasculares.
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3 millones de niños muertos: las infecciones resistentes a los medicamentos desencadenan una crisis mundial
Un nuevo estudio revela el espeluznante balance de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos en 2022, con África y Asia como las regiones más afectadas.
Más de tres millones de niños morirán en 2022 por infecciones que los antibióticos ya no pueden tratar. El aumento de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos (RAM) está afectando con mayor dureza a las regiones más pobres y amenaza con borrar décadas de progreso en la salud infantil
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Un brote de síndrome de Guillain-Barré afecta a Pune (India)
Cientos de afectados por la parálisis progresiva
Pune (India) se enfrenta a un aumento de los casos de síndrome de Guillain-Barré (SGB), con unos 160 notificados desde enero. El brote, relacionado con la bacteria Campylobacter jejuni, ha dejado a muchos pacientes en cuidados intensivos y ha suscitado preocupación por las infecciones de origen alimentario.
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Three Ways Forward in a Post Covid-19 World
There are three important ways forward in addressing the pandemic and its impacts on health and wellbeing in the years to come.
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Gender-sensitive Workplace Health Promotion: Why It Is Important and How It Can Be Implemented in Practice
Sex and gender are important determinants of health, but we often lack criteria for effective gender-sensitive work place health promotion. A team at the Austrian Health Promotion Fund are working to overcome these challenges. They have developed 17 criteria and a 62-point checklist for workplace health promotion initiatives.
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COVID-19: the worst may be yet to come
As much of western Europe begins to ease countrywide lockdowns, globally the pandemic may still be in its infancy, with more than 160 000 new cases reported each day since June 25. Individual countries count cases differently, so direct comparisons are difficult, but the numbers illustrate a worrying pattern. At a subnational level the picture is nuanced, with local hotspots, but at a country level the picture is clear—the world is facing a worsening multipolar pandemic.
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Medicine shortages in the EU: causes and solutions
Find out why there is a shortage of medicines, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and how Parliament wants to improve the situation
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Coronavirus Makes Inequality a Public Health Issue
“It may seem like a ridiculous idea but the only way to fight the plague is with decency.” – Dr Rieux in Albert Camus’s 1947 novel, The Plague.
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Study finds functional medicine model is associated with improvements in health-related QOL
In the first retrospective cohort study of the functional medicine model, Cleveland Clinic researchers found that functional medicine was associated with improvements in health-related quality of life. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open.
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NHS treating 5,000 diabetics a day as one in 10 patients now suffer with illness, figures reveal
Hospitals are being deluged by 5,000 type 2 diabetics a day, new figures reveal as one in 10 patients are now suffering from a form of the illness linked to being overweight and inactive.
More than 1.7million people with type 2 diabetes were admitted to hospitals last year, costing the NHS an estimated £22million a day.
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A ‘Cure’ for Ebola but Will it Stop the Outbreak if People Won’t Get Treatment?
While people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are slowly being made aware that scientists have discovered two drugs that are effective in treating Ebola, letting go of the fear and anxiety that has prevailed across the country this year will require more work.
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Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training.
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90–90–90 Treatment for All
An ambitious treatment target to help end the AIDS epidemic
By 2020, 90% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status ...
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Incident Management System
To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability,
To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability, WHE proposed the development of a series of training packages to build staff competencies, skills and knowledge, to enhance deployment and response capability.
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Depression: A Global Public Health Concern
Depression is a significant contributor to the global burden of disease and affects people in all communities across the world. Today, depression is estimated to affect 350 million people.
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Estimating HIV incidence and number of undiagnosed individuals living with HIV in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2015
Since 2011, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence appears unchanged in the European Union/European Economic Area with between 29,000 and 33,000 new cases reported annually up to 2015.
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Establishing a Global Vaccine-Development Fund
As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa continues, albeit at a much lower level than it reached in the spring, we still lack a vaccine that has been shown to be safe and effective.
Much attention has appropriately been directed at major disease targets such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis, and malaria, for which organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust are providing considerable financial support. Similar attention has been devoted to the provision of currently licensed pediatric vaccines, which is supported by GAVI (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization).
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Maternidad en la niñez
Enfrentar el reto del embarazo en adolescentes
Every day in developing countries, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth. Nine in 10 of these births occur within marriage or a union. This has consequences on the health, education, employment and rights of an untold millions of girls. Full Report also in Español...
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