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Lung cancer diagnoses of UK women to outnumber men’s for first time

Posted in Medicine on 10th Jul, 2023
by Alex Muller

Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in the UK, accounting for one in five of the total. It has one of the worst cancer survival rates, which is largely attributed to diagnoses at a late stage, when treatment is less likely to be effective.

A new target to slow down ageing and reduce blood cancer risk

Posted in Medicine on 10th Jul, 2023
by Alex Muller

It seemed to confirm a long-held theory that DNA damage is a key driver of ageing. 

A Drug Designed By AI Is Starting Its First Human Trials

Posted in Medicine on 28th Jun, 2023
by Alex Muller

Its drug candidate (for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis-a chronic condition where the lungs become scarred and it's hard to breathe) - took just a third of the usual time and a tenth of the usual cost to develop thanks to the company's technology.

Scientists reworked an experimental cancer therapy to treat autoimmune disease

Posted in Medicine on 28th Jun, 2023
by Alex Muller

For reasons scientists have not been able to figure out yet, the immune response mistakenly attacks its own healthy cells, struggling to distinguish between ally and enemy.

Most blood pressure meds found to reduce frequency of migraine headaches

Posted in Medicine on 27th Jun, 2023
by Alex Muller

A new study by researchers at The George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, Australia, has found that almost all classes of antihypertensives have some ability to reduce the frequency of headaches in migraine sufferers.