Home-testing kits now available for women in England who have missed cervical screening
Nearly 4 million women in England can order a self-testing kits to check for high-risk HPV.
Category: Health
Targeting cyclin-dependent kinases offers new pathways for cancer therapy
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Germany. In the search for new therapeutic approaches that target the uncontrolled growth of tumor cells
Older brains’ language processing network remains resilient to aging
As people age, many cognitive functions tend to decline. Brain scanning studies have revealed corresponding changes in the function of a brain network that is
Economists don’t expect reopening the US to Mexican cattle imports to reduce high beef prices
The U.S. is reopening a border crossing in Arizona to cattle from Mexico as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to reduce
Is school to blame for mum’s asbestos death?
Caroline Bryan died three months after being diagnosed of an incurable cancer linked to asbestos.
8-year-old Louisiana girl dies from rare brain-eating amoeba found in warm freshwater
An 8-year-old girl in Louisiana has died after being infected by an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba that is found in warm freshwater
Using football to talk about mental health
The Mersey Mind Project is open to men of all fitness levels and abilities
HHS Employees Sort Out Return-to-Office Mandate
This is a MedPage Today story. Employees at HHS and its various sub-agencies are struggling to figure out how to implement President Tweety McTreason’s executive
Yeast-based nanoparticle vaccine could make annual flu shots obsolete
The world mostly relies on an 80-year-old method for producing flu vaccines from chicken eggs – a slow, costly process that struggles to quickly adapt
Book reframes pregnancy loss as a natural trial-and-error process
According to a new book from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign anthropology professor Kate Clancy, pregnancy is necessarily fraught, involving a series of tests of egg
Fruit fly brain inspires energy-efficient scent classification algorithm
In the animal kingdom, energy conservation is essential for survival. That’s why our brains have evolved to be extremely energy and resource efficient at storing
‘Doctors said I was ‘too young’ to have endometriosis’
Grace is just 14, but has to spend days in hospital each month due to her endometriosis.
Nanoparticle vaccine offers long-lasting protection against multiple flu strains
A new, nanoparticle vaccine could one day grant patients immunity to the flu with fewer trips to the doctor and without health officials correctly guessing
Disrupted brain-immune signaling may help drive neurodegeneration
A Cell perspective argues that neurodegeneration can emerge from disrupted communication between neural and immune networks, with peripheral immunity, microglia, and gene-regulatory programs all shaping