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Parts of North Queensland have received almost two meters of rain since the weekend, causing flash and riverine flooding that claimed the lives of two women around Ingham.

A new study using a large collection of demographic data has revealed the lasting and damaging consequences for children placed in state care between 1950 and 1999—including huge disparities in life expectancy compared with the general population.

The more plants you include in your diet, the more health benefits you’ll notice. This is why public health guidelines have long encouraged people to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day.

Could the bacteria in your mouth predict whether you are at risk of dementia? Emerging research suggests that the bacteria living on your tongue and gums may affect how the brain works and how it changes as we age. In turn, this could affect whether someone ages normally or develops dementia.

A study published in Scientific Reports has revealed that people’s social connections play a crucial role in determining whether they adopt preventative health measures.

Scientists from the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Columbia University have discovered that about 5% of adult cancers rely heavily on a gene called PELO to survive and that disabling the gene kills those cancer cells. These cancers have mutations in one of two genes, FOCAD or TCC37.

A high-resolution spatial map of the human hypothalamus makes it possible to identify specific cells, determine their exact location and analyze their neighboring cells. The cell atlas, called Hypomap, developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne and the University of Cambridge, is being made available to the scientific community and could aid the development of new drugs to combat obesity and diabetes.

Non-hormone treatments, beneficial lifestyle changes and the effects of perimenopause and menopause on sleep and cognition are some of the top research priorities established by the Menopause Priority Setting Partnership (MAPS), an initiative led by the University of Chicago Medicine and global partners that aims to establish shared priorities in menopause research.

There’s currently no cure for dementia. Although some recently developed drugs show promise in slowing the progress of the disease, these are both costly and may have limited benefit for many patients.

The University of Barcelona has participated in an international study that has found new evidence linking traumatic experiences and stressful events with endometriosis, a chronic systemic inflammatory disease characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus. They show that the condition appears to be closely linked to trauma involving contact, i.e., those cases where there is direct physical interaction between the victim and the abuser, such as in physical abuse or sexual assault.