A medical student, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at just 17, is now training to be a doctor and says her diagnosis has only made her ‘more determined.’ Elena Espinosa Cabrera, 20, from North Devon, was revising for her medical school entrance exams when she went to A&E with pain in her abdomen. At […]

Researchers searching for new therapeutic targets in the SARS-CoV-2 virus have identified a potential Achilles’ heel that exists in all coronaviruses, according to a study published today in eLife. The research could aid the development of more powerful antibody drugs and vaccines against the virus that currently causes COVID-19 and might also protect against emerging […]

More than 474,000 people globally have leukemia, and acute leukemia is the most aggressive type. In a new clinical trial, of the 60 people with certain types of acute leukemia who took a new drug called revumenib, 30% experienced complete remission of the disease. Researchers are now hoping to carry out phase 2 trials and […]

Researchers publishing in Nature Human Behaviour, looked at how different (asymmetrical) the left and right side of babies’ brains were in terms of their shape and patterns of brain activity to establish a benchmark for future studies to investigate how asymmetries relate to brain disorders. Previous research has shown that people with and without mental […]

How coffee could cut your risk of skin cancer: The Gut Health Guru DR MEGAN ROSSI Are you the type who feels jittery after the caffeine hit of a single espresso — or do you feel unaffected no matter how many coffees you line up? There are multiple reasons why we all react to caffeine […]

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The degenerative brain disease known as CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, has become a specter haunting football. One-time stars-;like the late NFL defensive backs Irv Cross and Dave Duerson and the Hall of Fame center Mike Webster-;who were all once heralded for their swaggering on-field heroics, later found themselves condemned to far less glamorous retirements, […]

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You’ve probably heard about the medication Ozempic, used to manage type 2 diabetes and as a weight loss drug. Ozempic (and the similar drug Wegovy) has had more than its fair share of headlines and controversies. A global supply shortage, tweets about using it from Elon Musk, approval for adolescent weight loss in the United […]

The FDA-approved drug buprenorphine is effective in the treatment of opioid use disorder, but limited access to clinics that can prescribe this drug has contributed to only a small fraction of patients receiving the treatment. Researchers have suggested that a collaborative care model involving the delegation of the care of opioid use disorder patients by […]