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Dec 2025
Seeing and feeling merge in the brain to shape perception
Ultra-high-field brain scans reveal integrated maps of vision and touch, highlighting the brain's role in embodied perception and multisensory processing.
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Dec 2025
Semaglutide helps older adults lose weight without immediate bone loss
Semaglutide shows potential for weight loss in older adults without harming bone density, but longer studies are essential to assess its effects on bone health.
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Dec 2025
Overweight boys hit puberty earlier than peers
Childhood obesity accelerates puberty in boys, with heavier children showing earlier testicular enlargement and pubic hair development, study finds.
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Nov 2025
WHO releases first-ever global guideline for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility
The World Health Organization (WHO) today called on countries to make fertility care safer, fairer and more affordable for all in its first-ever global guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
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Nov 2025
Measles deaths plummet but infections surge worldwide
Global immunization efforts have led to an 88% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2024, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 59 million lives have been saved by the measles vaccine since 2000.
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Nov 2025
Mediterranean diet benefits identified by SPARC levels
A new study published in Life Metabolism reports that a single post-meal blood biomarker, 1-hour postprandial SPARC (SPARC-1H), can predict who will benefit most from adopting a Mediterranean diet.
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Nov 2025
Drug combination can bypass cellular defenses in neuroblastoma
A discovery from Australian researchers could lead to better treatment for children with neuroblastoma, a cancer that currently claims 9 out of 10 young patients who experience recurrence.
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Nov 2025
Fanconi anemia patients show striking metabolic differences
Experts at Cincinnati Children's have uncovered striking metabolic differences in people with Fanconi anemia (FA), a rare genetic disorder that causes bone marrow failure and dramatically increases cancer risk.
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Nov 2025
Early-infancy infection with RSV increases the risk of developing childhood asthma
Belgian scientists from VIB and Ghent University (UGent), together with Danish collaborators, have uncovered compelling evidence that early-infancy infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) significantly increases the risk of developing childhood asthma-especially in children with a family history of allergy or asthma.
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Nov 2025
Early treatment of slow-growing brain tumors may worsen cognitive function
The treatment of a slow-growing brain tumor is often accompanied by impaired cognitive functions such as difficulties with shifting focus and impaired language ability.
