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Red meat consumption linked to kidney failure
Medical News Today A study, published in JAMA in 2012, documented 23,926 deaths and concluded that red meat consumption was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality. The present study, carried out at Duke-NUS Medical School and … Red meat intake may increase risk of developing end-stage renal disease |
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Centenarians' extra years are mostly healthy ones
Medical News Today The team says this would suggest the findings are likely to be true of other populations, and contradict the idea that the older people get, the greater the burden they place on society in terms of their medical needs. The researchers also conclude … |
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Herpesviruses could be eradicated with gene-editing technique
Medical News Today Study co-author Ferdy R. van Diemen, of the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, and colleagues recently published their findings in the journal PLOS Pathogens. CRISPR/Cas9 is a novel system that enables researchers to target and alter … |
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Virtual heart reveals new clues to heart failure
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Exercising 4 hours after learning boosts memory
Medical News Today Study co-author Guillén Fernández, of the Donders Institute at the Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, and colleagues found that adults who exercised 4 hours after completing a learning task had better memory recall 2 days later … |
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Parkinson's connection to faulty mitochondria investigated
Medical News Today Lewy bodies are thought to interfere with the way in which mitochondria (the powerhouses of the cells) function. This appears to be why Lewy bodies have a toxic effect on the brain. Breaking research published this week in Science Translational … |
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Brain enzyme could prevent Alzheimer's, neurodegenerative disease
Medical News Today An enzyme that protects the brain against oxidative stress may also protect against the formation of protein clumps – a hallmark of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other neurodegenerative diseases. [A human brain with lightning] Researchers suggest the … |
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How mood and stress reduce lifespan
Medical News Today An in-depth study charts the genetics involved in the shortening of life in response to mood and stress. A team from Indiana University School of Medicine and the Scripps Research Institute, CA, conducted a multifaceted project investigating the … |
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Drug resistance 'could kill 10 million people annually'
Medical News Today On the back of the WHO report, the United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron enrolled Lord O'Neill to conduct a review of AMR and develop a plan to stop the world being "cast back into the dark ages of medicine." Now, the final recommendations of … England's chief medical officer warns of 'antibiotic apocalypse' |