If Australia really wants to tackle mental health after coronavirus, we must take action on homelessness
The COVID-19 pandemic has opened fault lines in social, economic and health-care policy in Australia. One area in which all three converge is homelessness. It’s almost impossible to practise self-isolation and good hygiene if you’re living on the streets or…
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High cholesterol: Having this type of body shape could raise your ‘bad’ cholesterol levels
High blood cholesterol can accumulate in the arteries. Too much of the waxy substance can reduce blood flow to vital organs. And it can prevent oxygen from reaching the brain. Produced in the liver, and found in the foods you…
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“The summer disease, urinary stones”, So that you can prevent – natural healing naturopathic specialist portal
Heat: In the summer, the number of urinary stone disease is increasing According to experts, the number of urinary stone diseases has in recent years increased significantly. Especially in the hot summer months, an increase in the number of cases…
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Exercise and mealtime changes can beat Type 2 diabetes, study finds
Game-changing research showed that following a 12-week diet together with a healthier lifestyle could also see patients shedding two stone within a year. In the study, 61 percent of volunteers put diabetes in reverse, compared to 12 percent who did…
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Spain: rules for living in the new normal decided to
The Covid-19-pandemic keeps the world in breath. Already, more than 6.9 million people globally have become infected with the novel Coronavirus – 184.629 of them in Germany. 400,000 people have already died of Covid-19. Spain: rules for living in the…
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Scientists generate early stem cells that form human placenta
Despite researchers’ efforts to understand pregnancy — both healthy and high-risk — the human placenta remains something of a mystery. Tissue samples are nearly impossible to obtain until after birth, making it difficult to study the placenta’s role in pregnancy…
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Study into DNA biology could impact future anti-cancer therapies
A study by the Centre for Chromosome Biology at NUI Galway, Ireland, in partnership with the University of Zurich, has uncovered new insights into how the replication of DNA occurs which can be applied to help develop novel cancer treatments….
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NAFLD in pregnancy increases risks for mother and baby
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in pregnancy has nearly tripled over the past ten years. It increases risks for both mother and baby, including hypertensive complications of pregnancy, bleeding after delivery, and preterm birth, report investigators in the Journal of…
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How the brain balances feelings of stress and calm
Two regions of the brain play pivotal roles in the experience of stress and the restoration of calm, an imaging study has discovered. The effects of stress on the mind and body, such as heightened alertness and a rapid heartbeat,…
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New method created for identifying genes behind brain tumors
Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a method for identifying functional mutations and their effect on genes relevant to the development of glioblastoma—a malignant brain tumor with a very poor prognosis. The study is published in Genome Biology. The human…
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