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Major tobacco companies continue to market their products despite plain packaging legislation

Fresh evidence has revealed that major tobacco companies in the UK have made attempts to continue to market their products despite the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes nearly three years ago.

24 Sep 2019

Bath researchers identify promising prostate cancer drug candidates

Cancer researchers from the University of Bath have identified some promising drug candidates by using high-throughput screening methods to test tens of thousands of molecules.

24 Sep 2019

No evidence found for previously suspected warning signs of seizures

By studying the brain dynamics of 28 subjects with epilepsy, scientists demonstrated there is no evidence for a previously suspected warning sign for seizures known as "critical slowing down."

24 Sep 2019

Research suggests new strategy to prevent performance degradation caused by anxiety

Researchers in the Center for Information and Neural Networks, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan and the Centre national de la recherché scientifique, France used fMRI to discover a new neural mechanism involving the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex to explain how anxiety deteriorates physical performance.

24 Sep 2019

Survey: Men have low levels of awareness about prostate health and function

The survey, which assessed knowledge of the prostate in 3,010 men over 50 years in the UK, Germany and France, found that just one in 4 men (26%) over the age of 50 are correctly able to identify the prostate's main function.

24 Sep 2019

Hand washing encouraged as hand sanitizer shown to be ineffective at killing the flu

A new study has found that hand sanitizer may not be as effective as previously thought at preventing the spread of influenza A, the common flu virus.

24 Sep 2019

Stepped care model can be effective for improving insomnia in cancer survivors

Affecting as many as 30% of cancer survivors, chronic insomnia can be effectively treated with intensive cognitive-behavioral techniques, but such methods are time-consuming, costly, and limited by the availability of trained specialists.

24 Sep 2019

Obesity is “not a choice” and fat shaming does not help, says British Psychological Society

Obesity is “not a choice” and making people feel ashamed of their weight only leaves them feeling worse about themselves, according to a new report.

24 Sep 2019

Survey: Elderly people with diabetes may favor more aggressive blood sugar control

Survey results of a national sample of elderly people with type 2 diabetes suggest that many long-time patients downplay medical and social factors that underpin professional recommendations for fewer medications and less aggressive treatment of high blood sugar.

24 Sep 2019

Researchers make breakthrough in understanding enzymes that assemble the antibiotic enacyloxin

One of the WHO's three critical priority pathogens, Acinetobacter baumannii, for which new antibiotics are urgently needed is one step closer to being tackled, as researchers from the Department of Chemistry - University of Warwick have made a breakthrough in understanding the enzymes that assemble the antibiotic enacyloxin.

24 Sep 2019

New method harnesses the power of killer T cells to attack tumor cells, treat cancer

They've been called the "special forces" of the immune system: invariant natural killer T cells. Although there are relatively few of them in the body, they are more powerful than many other immune cells.

24 Sep 2019

Study: Certain genes that predict risk of high cholesterol differ between countries

Some of the genes that predict the risk of high cholesterol don't apply to people from Uganda the same as they do in European populations, finds a new UCL-led study.

24 Sep 2019

Algorithm helps physicians to assess whether stroke patients are candidates for clot-removing procedure

An algorithm developed by faculty at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston can help physicians outside of major stroke treatment centers assess whether a patient suffering from ischemic stroke would benefit from an endovascular procedure to remove a clot blocking an artery.

24 Sep 2019

Veterans with mental health disorders have increased risk of heart attack, stroke

Veterans with specific mental health disorders - depression , psychosis and bipolar disorder - had an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and death from cardiovascular disease, according to new research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal.

24 Sep 2019

$Deep brain stimulation found to be safe, effective in the treatment of refractory severe tinnitus$

Deep brain stimulation found to be safe, effective in the treatment of refractory severe tinnitus

Researchers from the University of California San Francisco and Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco investigated the safety and efficacy of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of refractory severe tinnitus in a small group of patients.

24 Sep 2019

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Major tobacco companies continue to market their products despite plain packaging legislation

Bath researchers identify promising prostate cancer drug candidates

No evidence found for previously suspected warning signs of seizures

Research suggests new strategy to prevent performance degradation caused by anxiety

Survey: Men have low levels of awareness about prostate health and function

Hand washing encouraged as hand sanitizer shown to be ineffective at killing the flu

Stepped care model can be effective for improving insomnia in cancer survivors

Obesity is “not a choice” and fat shaming does not help, says British Psychological Society

Survey: Elderly people with diabetes may favor more aggressive blood sugar control

Researchers make breakthrough in understanding enzymes that assemble the antibiotic enacyloxin

New method harnesses the power of killer T cells to attack tumor cells, treat cancer

Study: Certain genes that predict risk of high cholesterol differ between countries

Algorithm helps physicians to assess whether stroke patients are candidates for clot-removing procedure

Veterans with mental health disorders have increased risk of heart attack, stroke

Deep brain stimulation found to be safe, effective in the treatment of refractory severe tinnitus

Study identifies determinants of estradiol levels among women using hormone therapy

Vitamin D and fish oil show promise to protect against cancer mortality and heart attacks

Most breast cancer cases could be prevented by simple lifestyle modifications

Study finds rise in racial/ethnic mortality disparities across age groups

Hormone therapy decreases metabolites directly linked with Type 2 diabetes

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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