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12:30, May 11 Girl, 11, diagnosed with rare bone cancer after symptoms dismissed as 'growing pains'
17:32, May 10 Drug-delivering microneedle patch may spur hair regrowth in AA
19:32, May 9 Media: Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever detected in Spain: one in four out of 10 patients dies
15:26, May 9 UK child's hearing is restored using gene therapy for first time
13:37, May 9 Science: folic acid protects against spinal splitting at high risk
11:25, May 9 Gastric Cancer: salt overuse increases the risk of developing gastric cancer by 39%
08:38, May 9 Deadly spider venom saves cells from damage during stroke, heart attack
13:11, May 8 Nature Medicine: Alzheimer's risk reaches 95% in elderly with 2 copies of APOE4 gene, study finds
10:39, May 8 The Telegraph: AstraZeneca withdrawing Covid vaccine amid lawsuit
22:36, May 7 Woman left in 17-day coma ‘burning from the inside out’ after taking ibuprofen for period pain
18:44, May 7 Car interior materials emit harmful substances suspected to cause cancer - study
16:47, May 7 Daily Mail: eating nuts and seeds can reduce risk of cancer and heart disease

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Deadly spider venom saves cells from damage during stroke, heart attack

Australian scientists have created a drug that will enable avoiding complications during heart attack and stroke…

JAMA: patient grew long, curly eyelashes because of chemotherapy

Scientists know of medications that can cause this condition...

The Lancet: Drug discovered that prevents rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is a dangerous autoimmune disease that occurs in case of…

Getting to know the disease

Daily Mail: Elderly woman in China gets infected with brain-eating amoeba

Doctors diagnosed brain cancer in her whose brain was actually affected by a rare predatory amoeba…

WHO: Measles cases rose 79% globally last year

The World Health Organization voiced alarm…

Prolonged course of COVID-19 may lead to impaired sexual function in women - study

Among those who had undergone COVID, levels of desire and arousal were lower than those who had not...

Researchers find out why some cancer patients develop memory loss

In a rare but serious complication of cancer, the body's own immune system can start attacking the brain, causing rapid-onset memory loss and cognitive deficits. What triggers this sudden biological civil war was largely unknown…

Covid-19: Vaccines have saved at least 1.4 million lives in Europe, WHO reports

The researchers used covid mortality and vaccine uptake data reported by 34 countries and vaccine effectiveness data...

Study reveals altered time perception in early Alzheimer's stages, offering potential early diagnostic marker

The healthy aging process is associated with dissociations between temporal prediction tasks, tasks that require explicit duration judgments and assessing the representation of time implicitly...

ERJ: physical weakness after COVID-19 is associated with tissue oxygen deficiency

American scientists, in a study involving 55 volunteers, found that the inability to exercise after COVID-19 is due to impaired oxygen uptake by body tissues...

WHO: China says surge in illnesses among children not linked to new pathogen

Chinese officials said they had seen an increase in the number of sick children seeing doctors or being hospitalized...

Scientists have discovered when taste and sense of smell recover in patients who have had a mild form of coronavirus

While many COVID-19 patients did complain of dulled senses of taste and smell, the new study found that recovery of senses does occur over time...

Gut microbiome's role in Alzheimer's disease confirmed: Study demonstrates transference of cognitive impairments in rats

The study marks a significant turning point in Alzheimer's research, emphasizing the gut microbiome as a promising avenue for the development of novel therapeutic interventions...

People who defeated death

Girl, 11, diagnosed with rare bone cancer after symptoms dismissed as 'growing pains'

Even though I didn’t think much of it when I was first diagnosed, all I knew is that I didn’t want to die...

Woman left in 17-day coma ‘burning from the inside out’ after taking ibuprofen for period pain

However, a few days later, she started experiencing a mild itch in her eye...

In 64% of COVID-19 survivors, the condition worsens after one year

Respondents experienced a variety of impairments including physical (57 per cent), respiratory (49 per cent, of which 19 per cent required supplemental oxygen), psychiatric (24 per cent) and cognitive impairment (15 per cent)...

US woman is cured just few hours after being diagnosed with lung cancer

April Boudreau, 61, of Texas, was receiving yearly CT scans after having survived cancer three times already...

Exclusive interview: Young woman defeats stage 4 breast cancer

“Some people after us will have to face the same, and they need to know that there were other people who have been through the same…

Teen survives after car fell on his head

“Juan had been riding in his friend’s car near his school when the accident occurred…

Toddler with cancerous tumour undergoes unique surgery

Doctors first assumed that the cause of the ailment is a virus…

UK youngest baby born at 23 weeks may get in Guinness Book of Records

Edie Madoc-Jones weighed 1lb 4oz…

Woman spends week with knife in her body (PHOTOS)

“The risk was that she'd bleed to death if we just took the knife out and we couldn't rush it...

Conjoined twins born fused at the abdomen who now have one leg EACH after separation surgery are thriving at 17 and 'feel the same as everybody else'

The sisters are now 17 and thriving, following an unprecedented 26-hour operation that left them each with one leg when they were aged four...

The Telegraph: AstraZeneca withdrawing Covid vaccine amid lawsuit

The company explains the move solely for commercial reasons, due to the fact that the drug has ceased to be in demand…

Armenia joins Council of Europe convention on protection of patients rights

The country’s government of approved the Oviedo Convention...

AstraZeneca admits its Covid vaccine can cause thrombosis

The pharmaceutical giant is being sued in a class action over claims that its Covid vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, caused death and serious injury in dozens of cases...

Breathing therapy, which is so popular in the world, is starting to spread in Armenia

Breathing therapie are used to reach different levels of consciousness and altered states, thanks to which one can overcome some past traumas and problems, improve the health of the body, get rid of fears and addictions...