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Mass gatherings, such as major sports events and festivals, bring together people from different regions and countries. One associated risk of such large gatherings is the potential spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), ...

An international team has created the first comprehensive reference measurements for blood vessel stiffness in healthy young people, a step that could give pediatric and adolescent clinics a multi-decade head start in spotting ...

Standard concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for cervical cancer achieves disease-free survival (DFS) in approximately 70% of patients with locally advanced disease; however, nearly 30% still experience recurrence or metastasis.

Researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center have discovered a potentially powerful weapon in the fight against head and neck cancers. The new drug, still in preclinical studies, attacks cancer cells from within by damaging ...

People with learning disabilities progress faster to severe type 2 diabetes and are at greater risk of dying from their condition than people without these disabilities, suggests research published in the journal BMJ Open ...

Knee crepitus, the sound of cracking or grinding in the knee joint, is very common across all age groups.

Researchers at Tsukuba University in Japan report that memories acquired while awake are stored in a more permanent form (called memory consolidation) during the REM stage of sleep, and that this process requires the reactivation ...

A new study from the University of Sydney has revealed how type 2 diabetes directly alters the heart's structure and energy systems, offering vital insights into why people with diabetes are at greater risk of heart failure.

Medicines containing a type of PFAS or "forever chemical" called fluorine are not leading to higher numbers of adverse drug reactions, according to new data analysis.

A Mayo Clinic study finds that a shortened, less intense course of radiation and chemotherapy after minimally invasive surgery for HPV-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (HPV+OPSCC) results in less toxicity, substantially ...

Replacing time spent watching TV with other activities can help prevent depressive disorder in middle-aged adults, revealed a new study in European Psychiatry, published on behalf of the European Psychiatric Association by ...

Dementia researchers have called for updates to the diagnostic criteria for one of the most common younger-onset forms of the disease, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), a condition similar to the one actor ...