Belly Fat May Say More About Heart Failure Risk Than BMI

Belly Fat May Say More About Heart Failure Risk Than BMI For decades, body mass index has been the default number for talking about weight and health. It is easy to calculate, easy to compare, and useful for broad public health trends. But when it co...

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Brain Organoids Are Changing Disease Research — but They’re Not Replacing Lab Animals Yet

Brain Organoids Are Changing Disease Research — but They’re Not Replacing Lab Animals Yet Few scientific ideas capture the imagination quite like “mini brains”. The phrase suggests something almost science-fictional: tiny human brain-like structures...

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A Food Pathogen Finding Does Not Automatically Mean You’ll Get Sick

A Food Pathogen Finding Does Not Automatically Mean You’ll Get Sick Few food-safety phrases trigger alarm as quickly as “pathogen detected”. It sounds definitive. If a disease-causing bacterium is present in food, surely the risk is obvious. But the...

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Protein Shape May Be the Next Frontier in Alzheimer’s Biomarkers

Protein Shape May Be the Next Frontier in Alzheimer’s Biomarkers In Alzheimer’s research, one of the biggest challenges is not simply treating the disease more effectively. It is finding better ways to detect it, track it, and understand what is actu...

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Liquid Biopsy Is Moving Closer to Disease Detection from a Tiny Blood Sample

Liquid Biopsy Is Moving Closer to Disease Detection from a Tiny Blood Sample Few medical ideas sound as immediately appealing as this one: diagnose disease from a tiny amount of blood. No surgical biopsy. No difficult tissue sampling. No need to reac...

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Hepatoblastoma Remains One of Childhood Cancer’s Toughest Mysteries

Hepatoblastoma Remains One of Childhood Cancer’s Toughest Mysteries Some childhood cancers are frightening not only because they are serious, but because they remain biologically elusive. Hepatoblastoma — the most common liver tumour in children — si...

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A Genetic Risk Score for Diabetes and Obesity Sounds Promising — but the Evidence Here Doesn’t Prove It

A Genetic Risk Score for Diabetes and Obesity Sounds Promising — but the Evidence Here Doesn’t Prove It Precision medicine has made one idea especially appealing: if disease risk is partly written into our biology, why not measure it early and act so...

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More Radiation for Liver Cancer May Improve Control Without a Clear Toxicity Trade-Off

More Radiation for Liver Cancer May Improve Control Without a Clear Toxicity Trade-Off In liver cancer care, the idea of adding more treatment is never simple. Unlike many other tumours, hepatocellular carcinoma often develops in an organ that is alr...

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