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By ZOE HARDY, HEALTH REPORTER Published: 15:16, 21 August 2025 | Updated: 15:53, 21 August 2025 A cheap blood pressure drug already taken by millions could help protect women against one of the deadliest forms of breast cancer, new research suggests. Scientists at Monash University in Melbourne say beta blockers—which work by dampening the effects of stress hormones—may also halt …

Thousands of Americans have contracted an incurable fungus on the West Coast being dubbed a new ‘epidemic’.  Valley Fever, which got its name because a majority of cases are found in Arizona and California, is a deadly lung infection that kills one in 100 people that contract it.  In just 25 years, cases have climbed more than 1,200 percent in …

A pair of construction companies overlooked safety concerns, causing a “completely preventable” outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City that’s killed at least five people and sickened dozens more, according to lawsuits filed Wednesday. The Harlem outbreak has been traced back to July 26 with clusters in Upper Manhattan ZIP codes 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037 and 10039, officials said. …

Trump’s Transportation Secretary Announces Investigation into Deadly Florida Truck Crash, Shares Preliminary Findings  Department of Transportation (.gov) How did truck driver in fatal Turnpike crash get license if not legal resident?  yahoo.com White House gets key facts wrong as it blames California for 3 traffic deaths in Florida  San Francisco Chronicle Trump administration says driver in Florida crash was in US illegally, faults …

U.S. Steel released preliminary findings about the potential cause of Monday’s deadly explosion at U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works.  U.S. Steel spokeswoman Amanda Malkowski said in a statement on Friday that “preliminary indications lead us to believe” that the explosion happened when a gas valve was flushed in preparation for planned maintenance. The statement said that as pressure built inside …

Faults like San Andreas don’t necessarily repeat past behavior, which means the next big earthquake in California has the potential to be larger than any seen before, a new study suggests. The fresh insights into fault behavior came from studying Myanmar’s devastating March earthquake, which killed more than 5,000 people and caused widespread destruction. Scientists found that the fault responsible, …

A student has revealed that she nearly died after eating a broccoli sandwich bought at a food truck whose products have allegedly left at least two dead and more than a dozen in hospital.  Gaia Vitiello, a 24-year-old student at the Federico II University of Naples, was a customer at a food truck in the town of Diamante, in Calabria.  The …

Brain cells (artificially coloured) can be infected by a virus carrying the apperatus to correct disease-causing mutations. Credit: Nancy Kedersha/UCLA/Science Photo Library Scientists are closing in on the ability to apply genome editing to a formidable new target: the human brain. In the past two years, a spate of technological advances and promising results in mice have been laying the …

Off-the-shelf vaccine shows success against deadly cancers  Axios Pancreatic cancer vaccine prevents recurrence in Phase 1 clinical trial  NBC News Lymph node-targeted, mKRAS-specific amphiphile vaccine in pancreatic and colorectal cancer: phase 1 AMPLIFY-201 trial final results  Nature New ‘remarkable’ pancreatic cancer vaccine offers fresh hope for patients  The Independent New Vaccine For Two Deadly Cancers Shows Promise in Clinical Trial  ScienceAlert Source link

Health officials in Massachusetts are warning the public about a potentially deadly bacteria in coastal waters after a person was infected. The state’s Department of Public Health issued a warning Wednesday about Vibrio bacteria following what it called “an extremely rare case” of Vibrio vulnificus infection. Officials said the person was most likely exposed to it while at a beach …