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Earlier this summer, we reported on an exciting study that found colon cancer patients who participated in a three-year exercise coaching program experienced 28 percent fewer cancer recurrences and were 37 percent less likely to die from any cause. In other words, the results showed that exercise could be a powerful colon cancer cure. However, new research suggests that not all …

By ELEN JOHNSTON, HEALTH REPORTER Published: 15:32, 21 August 2025 | Updated: 15:34, 21 August 2025 It’s not unusual to return home from work after an exhausting day and want nothing more than to crawl straight into bed. But scientists say five much-loved foods could now be to blame for feeling more tired than usual. According to American researchers, higher …

article fILE – Dental floss (Photo by: Universal Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) If you have a fear of needles, you may be in luck. A recent study, which administered vaccines via dental floss, is showing early promise, according to researchers in North Carolina.  No more jabs? The backstory: Earlier studies have shown the mouth is an effective place …

Watch a 65-year-old grandmother navigate a tense family dinner, diplomatically managing three generations of competing needs while keeping everyone fed and relatively happy. Then watch her 35-year-old daughter have a meltdown because the restaurant got her order wrong. There’s a certain kind of intelligence that only comes with mileage. The conversation around aging brains has been stupidly simplistic. Sure, you …

Research led by investigators at Mass General Brigham suggests that the health benefits of more aggressive blood pressure control outweigh concerns about overtreating people with high blood pressure readings. Results of the simulation study are published in Annals of Internal Medicine. The study used data from the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) trial, the National Health and Nutrition Examination …

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A team at the University of Virginia has developed a monoclonal antibody to stop sepsis, the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals. There is good news from Virginia when it comes to the deadly infection sepsis. “This is truly a groundbreaking discovery,” said Jianjie Ma, a professor in the department of surgery at the University of Virginia. “Sepsis is …

CHRONIC PAIN wrecks the lives of more than 600m people around the world. One in five adults struggles with it. What causes it, however, is often a mystery. The prevailing hypothesis is that, after an injury, something goes wrong with the body’s pain receptors and the alarm system that reports injuries to the brain keeps ringing long after the body …

Record activity this summer involving two mosquito-borne diseases—chikungunya and West Nile virus (WNV)—suggests the European region is entering a new normal, driven by climate shifts, officials from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today. Along with its disease updates, the agency urged countries to mount robust and coordinated responses to protect the public. The ECDC’s latest …

In the old days, a person was considered dead when the heart stopped. Then, in 1968, a group of Harvard professors decided that people could also be considered dead when the brain stopped. Now, three doctors from New York are advocating that we expand the definition of death to include what they call “irreversibly comatose patients on life support.” What …