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China and India are home to more than a third of people with mental illness, but only a tiny fraction of them receive medical...
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Parkinson’s disease is a type of neurodegenerative disease that affects the muscles, leading to tremors and an eventual inability to walk. The disease is...
Life
The Australian science show Catalyst has a fascinating story on this new research, which is producing some quite astonishing, and very touching, results. One...
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Reducing inflammation Published in the medical journal Brain, a press release from the university says that the stu.dy’s findings suggest that by blocking a...
Tech & Science
As part of the Autumn Spending Review, Chancellor George Osborne has committed to increasing science spending in real terms (which means increases at the...
Life
The cancer drug, Tasigna (nilotinib), was developed by pharmaceutical company Novartis AG to treat leukemia patients. To put it in simple terms, nilotinib activates...
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The occurrence of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease may have stabilised in some wealthy nations, according to a study released Friday. A review of data...
Tech & Science
An interesting and thought-provoking study by researchers from Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom used World Health Organization (WHO) data from 1989 to 2010...
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The figures have been released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The aim of the report is to highlight how...
Life
A new study from Public Health England has found that the proportion of people with dementia who are admitted to hospital in an emergency...