UnitedHealth Group Tuesday said Andrew Witty’s is stepping down, citing “personal reasons” and will … More
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Saudi-US summit opens in Riyadh in presence of Trump, Bin Salman – Middle East Monitor
A Saudi-American summit opened in the capital Riyadh today in the presence of US President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, according to Saudi media.
Al-Ikhbariya TV said the official summit is taking place at the Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh, during which new agreements between the two countries will be signed.
Trump was welcomed by Bin Salman at the royal palace and given an official reception.
At the ceremony, Trump and Bin Salman welcomed…
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New survey shows privacy and safety tops list of parental concerns about screen time
As kids spend more time on screens, a new national survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of The Kids Mental Health Foundation, founded by Nationwide Children’s Hospital, identifies parents’ greatest fears for their children around screen time.
The top three fears parents have around their child and screen time are: privacy and safety concerns (47%), exposure to misinformation (36%) and not socializing in person (34%). Fewer parents ranked concerns around body image and schoolwork high on their…
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Seek medical advice before attempting water-only fasting diets, experts warn
Experts at the University of Sydney are urging people, especially those with existing heart or vascular conditions, to seek medical advice before attempting to lose weight using water-only fasting diets.
The study, published in Molecular Metabolism, was conducted by a team of researchers in Australia, Italy and the US. It examined the impact of prolonged fasting — a diet in which people abstain from consuming calories and instead drink only water for more than four days at a time — on…
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Higher success rate using a simple oral swab test before IVF
About 15 per cent of all couples of reproductive age are involuntarily childless. A major reason why so many need assisted reproduction is that nowadays more and more people are putting off starting a family.
“This is a global trend that is expected to increase in the coming years. In Europe alone, one million IVF treatments are carried out each year; in Sweden, the corresponding number is 25,000,” says Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman, professor at Lund University who led the research. She has…
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New light shed on health differences between males and females
The results of an international study led by researchers from Queen Mary University of London’s Precision Healthcare University Research Institute (PHURI) shed new light the underlying biological mechanisms which cause differences in health risks, symptoms and outcomes between males and females.
The study, carried out in collaboration with the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit at the University of…
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Scientists film the heart forming in 3D earlier than ever before
Researchers at UCL and the Francis Crick Institute have, for the first time, identified the origin of cardiac cells using 3D images of a heart forming in real-time, inside a living mouse embryo.
For the study, published in The EMBO Journal, the teamused a technique called advanced light-sheet microscopy on a specially engineered mouse model. This is a method where a thin sheet of light is used to illuminate and take detailed pictures of tiny samples, creating clear 3D images without causing…
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Combinations of chronic illnesses could double risk of depression
People with multiple long-term physical health conditions are at a significantly greater risk of developing depression, a study shows.
Researchers found that some combinations of illnesses — particularly cardiometabolic ones like diabetes and heart disease — could more than double the likelihood of a future depression diagnosis.
With multimorbidity — when patients live with two or more chronic conditions — continuing to put pressure on an already stretched healthcare system, experts say…
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New approach to treating aggressive breast cancers shows significant improvement in survival
A new treatment approach significantly improves survival rates for patients with aggressive, inherited breast cancers, according to Cambridge researchers.
In a trial where cancers were treated with chemotherapy followed by a targeted cancer drug before surgery, 100% of patients survived the critical three-year period post-surgery.
The discovery, published today in Nature Communications, could become the most effective treatment to date for patients with early-stage breast cancer with…
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‘Loop’hole: HIV-1 hijacks human immune cells using circular RNAs
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have identified a never-before-seen mechanism that enables the human immunodeficiency type 1 virus (HIV-1) to evade the body’s natural defenses and use it to support its survival and replication.
The “loophole?” A biological process that involves circular RNAs (circRNAs), which form a “loop” or circle inside cells — unlike regular RNA molecules that are shaped like a straight…
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