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Male-female brain differences may be unlocked with new findings

Male-female brain differences may be unlocked with new findings

Columbia University, USA, researchers have identified a genetic pathway to sexual maturation in roundworms that show male-female brain differences. Researchers have identified a group of...
Want some smoking cessation advice?

Want some smoking cessation advice?

This may be great smoking cessation advice: reducing alcohol consumption could help individuals quit their daily smoking habit. New research has found that heavy drinkers...
Excess body weight and the world of cancer

Excess body weight and the world of cancer

According to new studies, excess body weight is an established cause of cancer, currently known to be linked to 13 cancers. A new study looking...
Phantom limb pain treatment: rerouting nerves during amputation

Phantom limb pain treatment: rerouting nerves during amputation

Ohio State University find life-altering benefits by rerouting nerves during amputation - could this be a form of phantom limb pain treatment? Doctors at The...
Recommended daily sugar allowance exceeded by young children

Recommended daily sugar allowance exceeded by young children

Young children in the UK surpass the maximum recommended daily sugar allowance, this being around 2,800 excess sugar cubes per year. According to PHE (Public...
Becoming reality – mucopolysaccharide storage diseases and adulthood

Becoming reality – mucopolysaccharide storage diseases and adulthood

Susanne Gerit Kircher, of the Medical University of Vienna, explains why more resources and effort must be put into understanding mucopolysaccharide storage diseases in...
It’s time for a new Europe-wide strategy on prostate cancer

It’s time for a new Europe-wide strategy on prostate cancer

Europa Uomo chairman André Deschamps sets out the need for an improved approach to prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment. 30 million men in Europe are...
A call to action for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

A call to action for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

The EU-IPFF sets out a series of recommendations to improve the quality of life and treatment outcomes of people living with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis...
The World Mosquito Program: eliminating mosquito-borne diseases

The World Mosquito Program: eliminating mosquito-borne diseases

The World Mosquito Program is an indispensable tool in the global effort to eliminate infectious diseases. Scott O’Neill tells Health Europa more. What if we...
Colorectal cancer and colonoscopy

Colorectal cancer and colonoscopy

Jolanta Gore-Booth, the CEO of Digestive Cancers Europe, discusses the value of colonoscopy in diagnosing and preventing colorectal cancer. In a recent survey by specialist...
D-MOSS: an integrated dengue virus early warning system

D-MOSS: an integrated dengue virus early warning system

Driven by Earth Observations in Vietnam, D-MOSS, Dengue Mosquito Simulation from Satellites, is a dengue virus early warning system for Vietnam. D-MOSS is developed by...
Artificial intelligence in healthcare – has there been a misdiagnosis of the benefits?

Artificial intelligence in healthcare – has there been a misdiagnosis of the benefits?

In regards to artificial intelligence in healthcare, F5 Networks’ Ralf Sydekum asks: Can human doctors ever really be replaced by AI-enabled apps? Looking further into...
Food reformulation for better health

Lets take a closer look at food reformulation for better health

Professor Markus Peck, of United European Gastroenterology, highlights the importance of food reformulation for improved digestive and public health. Food reformulation and related efforts to...
Social media addiction: student binge drinkers affected

Social media addiction: student binge drinkers affected

Binge drinkers, typically university students, are frequently posting on social media while intoxicated therefore showing signs of social media addiction. Researchers have found that social...
Discover how protein clumps damage cells in Parkinson’s

Discover how protein clumps damage cells in Parkinson’s

Biologists studying Parkinson's disease have found that enzymes modify tau to create tau-alpha-synuclein protein clumps on mitochondria. Biologists studying Parkinson's disease have long wanted to...
Brexit uncertainty causing trouble for NHS trusts across UK

Brexit uncertainty causing trouble for NHS trusts across UK

According to the BMJ, NHS trusts are struggling to produce concrete plans amid the continuing Brexit uncertainty. NHS trusts across the UK are struggling to...
Are scientists one step closer to giving artificial intelligence human hearing?

We’re one step closer to giving artificial intelligence human hearing

Researchers have simulated the process of the sensory sounds coding for artificial intelligence by modelling human hearing. Scientists of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic...
Operating room pressures: surgeons under stress make more mistakes

Operating room pressures: surgeons under stress make more mistakes

New study finds that surgeons under stress make up to 66% more mistakes on patients in the operating room. Using a technology that captured the...
Ovarian cancer metastasis aided by DNA ‘webs’

Ovarian cancer metastasis aided by DNA ‘webs’

According to University of Texas, after being caught in DNA ‘webs’ extruded by immune cells, ovarian cancer metastasis occurs, spreading to new tissue. Researchers from...
Examining the vascular system of the hominin, Little Foot

Examining the vascular system of the hominin, Little Foot

The 3.67 million-year-old brain of our ancient human relative hominin, otherwise known as Little Foot, reveals a vascular system like humans. MicroCT scans of the...

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