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A new artificial intelligence-driven model can analyse magnetic resonance imaging of brain scans to accurately capture cognitive decline linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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Japanese researchers explore role of oxytocin in dementia treatment

HQ Team February 14, 2024: Researchers at Tokyo University of Science, led by Professor Akiyoshi Saitoh, showed how oxytocin influences learning and memory

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Dr. Reddy's Meloma Patent antitrust law
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Aspirin found to increase mortality in healthy older adults: Study

HQ Team February 14, 2024: Is a daily dose of aspirin beneficial for the overall health of the elderly? According to a recent

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Lowering sodium intake can reduce blood pressure regardless of whether one is on medication, a study reveals.
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Salt substitutes effective in reducing hypertension in elderly people

HQ Team February 13, 2024: Adding to the long line of evidence that reducing salt intake affects blood pressure is the latest study

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Gilead buys CymaBay for $ 4.3b to expand its liver portfolio

HQ Team February 13, 2024: Gilead Sciences is buying CymaBay Therapeutics for $4.3 billion, to access its portfolio of drugs for liver and

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People with depression may have higher body temperatures and lowering the heat is likely to be beneficial to them, according to researchers from the University of California San Francisco.
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People with severe depressive disorder have higher body temperature

 HQ Team February 12, 2024: People with depression may have higher body temperatures and lowering the heat is likely to be beneficial to

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Scientists have discovered five known cases of possible medically acquired Alzheimer’s disease after the patients have undergone previous treatments.
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Researchers find five cases of medically-acquired Alzheimer’s in UK

HQ Team February 12, 2024: Scientists have discovered five known cases of possible medically acquired Alzheimer’s disease after the patients have undergone previous

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Record-breaking heat caused by greenhouse gases, ocean heat, and ocean acidification have resulted in glacial melts, a rise in sea levels, and human displacement last year,  according to a WMO report. 
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Extreme cold, hot conditions ahead as Atlantic currents set to collpase

Bharti Jayshankar February 10, 2024: A new research published in Science Advances says the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean current – called the

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Smokers may benefit from Sanofi's asthma drug after a phase III trial showed "significant improvements in lung function, quality of life" and uncontrolled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease respiratory symptoms.
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Quitting smoking at any age brings great benefits finds global study

HQ Team February 10, 2024: A study on smoking carried out by the University of Toronto says that people who quit smoking at

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Researchers at the University of Central Florida have engineered a human tissue that draws mosquitoes to bite and feed on, and hope the platform can help study the pattern of how the pathogens the insects carry impact and infect human cells and tissues.
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Brazil reels under dengue, public health emergency declared

HQ Team February 9, 2024: As millions descend in Rio De Janeiro in Brazil for the world-famous Carnival starting today, the government has

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Global deaths due to COVID-19 have fallen by 95% since January, and nations need to take steps to manage virus variants alongside other infectious diseases, the WHO director-general said.
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New research points at higher incidence of long COVID in children

HQ Team February 9, 2024: The coronavirus may have lost its virulence with time but its long-term effects are still being revealed among

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