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Hmong American adults who have a stroke tend to be much younger than their white counterparts and may be more likely to have a less common type that causes bleeding in the brain, a new study suggests.

Ovarian cancer is the fourth-leading cause of cancer mortality among women and is characterized by late detection, extensive metastasis and poor prognosis.

Scientists from Scripps Research and Cardiff University have made key discoveries in support of a new stem cell-based therapy for Parkinson’s disease. The approach, called an autologous therapy, uses induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)—made from a patient’s own skin or blood cells—to replace the neurons in the brain that are lost in Parkinson’s. Transplants of a person’s own cells eliminates the need for immunosuppression.

Cardiovascular diseases are the biggest killers in the world, accounting for 17.9 million deaths globally—every single year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). To put that number into perspective, it is more than twice the entire population of London.

When does that seasonal suntan become a risk for melanoma? At what point could those extra pounds trigger diabetes? Could severe head injuries tip one over into Alzheimer’s disease? In the larger scheme of things, the risk factors include genetics, lifestyle and age, with the answers often only coming after the unfortunate diagnoses.

The inflammatory response is indispensable for protective immunity, yet microbial pathogens often trigger an excessive response, a “cytokine storm,” harmful to the host. Despite recent advances in our understanding of inflammatory signaling, how to prevent a cytokine storm remains a challenge.

Women with Lyme disease take longer to get diagnosed, have more severe symptoms and experience higher rates of disability when compared to men. They may also be more likely to develop persistent Lyme disease. Those are among the findings of a recent study that analyzed information from the MyLymeData patient registry. The results have been published in the International Journal of General Medicine.

The United States now has had eight reported cases of malaria, seven of them in Florida, state health officials reported Tuesday.

By ROGERS KALERO

TWO sisters of Buchi Township in Kitwe aged between 30 and 32 have been burnt to death while sleeping in their bedroom between the late hours of Sunday and early hours of Monday.

ChatGPT may have some of the reasoning skills doctors need to diagnose and treat health problems, a pair of studies suggests—though no one is predicting that chatbots will replace humans in lab coats.