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Spontaneous Smoking Cessation Before Lung Cancer Diagnosis
We have observed that many patients with lung cancer stop smoking before diagnosis, usually before clinical symptoms, and often without difficulty. This led us to speculate that spontaneous smoking cessation may be a presenting symptom of lung cancer.
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Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover
Some form of brain injury could be behind the symptoms reported by those with long COVID, according to a new study, and adapting tests and treatments to match could aid progress in tackling the condition.
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Virology Lectures 2024 #1: What is a virus?
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Scientists Have Finally Figured Out What Ignites Endless Itching in Eczema
The unbearable itch that accompanies the chronic inflammatory skin condition eczema has a new culprit.
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Where Do Millions of Snakes Disappear to?
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'Phage therapy' could treat some drug-resistant superbug infections, but comes with unique challenges
Researchers are desperately seeking viable alternatives to antibiotics. So what is phage therapy? And how could it help?
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Polycystic Kidney Disease Breakthrough (New Research in PKD) - 2023
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A Mom Ate Chicken Burrito From A Suspicious Restaurant. This Is What Happened To Her Gut.
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7 Alarming Ways Statins Can Cause Harm
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Zebra fishes show the way to drugs against Inflammatory bowel disease, IBD
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Parkinson’s breakthrough as blood test could help develop cure
The new blood test could allow Parkinson’s disease to be diagnosed and treated earlier
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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Parkinson's Disease - PubMed
The etiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) is multifactorial, with genetics, aging, and environmental agents all a part of the PD pathogenesis. Widespread aggregation of the α-synuclein protein in the form of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, and degeneration of substantia nigra dopamine neurons are the …
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The (Second) Most Deadliest Virus on Earth
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Why Smoking ANYTHING Is a Terrible Idea...
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Does picking your nose really increase your risk of COVID?
Health workers who picked their noses were more likely to contract COVID, according to a new study. But here’s what the study means for the rest of us.
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Doctors in Eastern Europe have been using viruses to treat superbug infections since the 1930s.
Bacteriophages have been a mainstay in medical centers abroad for some time now. Georgia’s Eliava Institute has been active since the 1930s. Yet countries including the U.S. and U.K. grant access almost exclusively under compassionate use. That means bacteriophages have been languishing for decades as a last-ditch option.
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CRISPR’d plant is resistant to the “cancer of rice”
Thanks to CRISPR, farmers may finally have a good defense against rice blast, a fungal disease so devastating, it’s known as the “cancer of rice.”
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Scientists discover critical factors that determine the survival of airborne viruses
Critical insights into why airborne viruses lose their infectivity have been uncovered by scientists at the University of Bristol. The findings, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface today [21 June], reveal how cleaner air kills the virus significantly quicker and why opening a window may be more important than originally thought. The research could shape future mitigation strategies for new viruses.
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Banana disease that wipes out plantations detected on Queensland farm
The fungal disease Panama TR4, which has no known cure or treatment, is confirmed on an eighth property in the Tully Valley.
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Flesh-Eating Bacteria Washing Ashore in Florida — and Plastic Is to Blame
The virulent Vibrio bacteria thrives in plastic, which intermingles with seaweed-like Sargassum washing up on beaches
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