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A Peter Mac-led international clinical trial has shown adding an immunotherapy drug to the chemotherapy that patients receive ahead of surgery can dramatically improve breast cancer cure rates.

A new strain of bird flu has been confirmed at a duck farm in California, the first time the variant has been discovered in poultry in the United States, an international agency said.

Don’t worry if someone’s checking your blood pressure in a loud public place.

The Morecambe Bay area has the highest rate of common cancers compared with the average rates for the whole North West or even England, according to research published in the journal Public Health in Practice.

Bowel movements, bloating, and other digestive issues may not be the easiest topics to discuss with your doctor, but having a conversation is the first step to improving your quality of life says Laurence Bailen, a gastroenterologist and clinical associate professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Researchers at the University of Basel are able to test in parallel the effects of over 1,500 active substances on cell metabolism. Their analysis also led to the discovery of previously unknown mechanisms for known medications. This approach might help scientists to better predict side effects and find additional uses for commercially available pharmaceuticals.

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused around 50 million deaths, and its impact was so severe that global life expectancy fell dramatically. It claimed more lives than the First World War.

An inert and unreactive gas may not seem like an obvious candidate for treating Alzheimer’s disease, yet a new study in mice suggests that xenon might just be the breakthrough we need.

Considering the effect of poor sleep on the individual as well as on society and the economy, it is hardly surprising sleep has become an intense area of research focus in recent years. Most recently we have seen an increase in the offering of and appetite for so-called sleep retreats. But what are sleep retreats and are they helpful?

Osteoporosis is a disease in which bone resorbs faster than it is formed, gradually weakening its structure over time and leading to fractures. Although the condition is well recognized, Dominique Pioletti, head of the Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics in EPFL’s School of Engineering, emphasizes that the economic and societal impacts of osteoporosis fractures are often underestimated.