There are changes in the levels of certain proteins in women’s blood two years before they are diagnosed with breast cancer. A study by scientists from Leiden University is presented at the 13th European Breast Cancer Conference. The TESTBREAST study was initiated in 2011. It involved 1,174 women at high risk of developing breast cancer.…
More than 1.3 billion young people can go deaf from listening to music too loudly on headphones or at concerts, an international team of scientists led by Karolinska University has found. According to the WHO, about 430 million people in the world suffer from hearing loss, 34 million of them children. Deafness has long ceased…
Six popular supplements that people usually take to improve heart health and lower “bad” cholesterol don’t actually work. That’s the conclusion reached by scientists at the University of California, who told the American Heart Association’s 2022 Resuscitation Scientific Symposium. “Bad” cholesterol are low-density lipoproteins (LDL). They form atherosclerotic plaques that cause blood vessels to narrow,…
Highly processed foods (e.g., chips, cookies, ice cream, French fries) can be considered addictive on par with tobacco, say psychologists from the University of Michigan and Virginia Tech. The authors of the paper, published in the journal Addiction, used criteria from a 1988 U.S. Surgeon General’s report that found tobacco to be addictive. They showed…
In the fight against cardiovascular diseases, quitting smoking is five times more effective than controlling blood pressure and three and a half times more effective than controlling cholesterol levels, head of Russian Association for Medical Risk Modification, cardiologist Alexander Rozanov told News.am MED. He listed the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases, noting that they have…
The man with the longest case of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom has recovered, with 411 days of illness. According to Sky News television, the man, age 59, tested positive for COVID-19 in December 2020. Despite the disappearance of symptoms, the tests remained positive until January 2022. The man had an early strain of the…
A new type of antibiotic has been developed that has shown efficacy against treatment-resistant bacteria – enterococci. Researchers from the University of Umea (Sweden) and the University of Washington School of Medicine (USA) have published the results in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The new class of antibiotics GmPcides was…
For the first time, biologists have been able to document how two common respiratory viruses fuse together to form a hybrid capable of bypassing the human immune system and infecting lung cells. Scientists believe their work will help explain why co-infection, for some patients, significantly aggravates the course of the disease and makes it more…
U.S. scientists have developed a highly accurate test to detect markers of cervical cancer as well as determine the likelihood of developing the disease. The work of scientists at the University of California was published in the journal Genome Medicine. The researchers studied the process of DNA methylation. This is a biological process that uses…
The co-founders of the biotechnology company BioNTech announced the creation of a personalized cancer vaccine by 2030. Breakthroughs in mRNA vaccines from COVID-19, achieved during the pandemic, helped speed up the process. Professors Ugur Şahin and Özlem Turecı, founders of the biotechnology company BioNTech in Germany, told the BBC. BioNTech, in partnership with Pfizer, was…
