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Approximately 60 per cent of prostate cancer diagnosis occur in individuals aged 65 or above: Experts
There is a concerning rise in the number of prostate cancer cases,...
Study finds body temperature is linked to depression
A small body of existing, causal studies has found that using hot...
Breakthrough in obsessive-compulsive disorder treatment
OCD affects around 3% of the population. The average age of onset is 19.5 years, which means that many cases go undetected in childhood and adolescence. UK's NHS-recommended treatments include cognitive behavioural therapy and antidepressant drugs called selective...
Russian sexologists to target homosexuality, other ‘disorders’ under new rules
The order, which takes effect on July 1, comes amid a clampdown on LGBT rights, which President Vladimir Putin has sought to portray as evidence of moral decay in Western countries and from which Russia must be protected Russian clinics will soon be staffed with...
Caffeine only makes you alert, coffee makes you ‘ready to go’, say scientists
"There is a common expectation that coffee increases alertness and psychomotor functioning," said Nuno Sousa of the University of Minho, Portugal, and corresponding author of the study published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience If you want to feel...
Transgender people at higher risk of suicide: Study
“The observed excess of suicidal behaviour and mortality might, at least in part, constitute ramifications of minority stress. Transgender individuals may be exposed to systemic negativity regarding their trans identity in the form of bullying, discrimination,...
Artificial Intelligence: An Existential Risk To Humanity
A group of scientists who were using AI to help discover new drugs ran an experiment where they tweaked their AI to search for harmful molecules instead They managed to generate 40,000 potentially poisonous agents in less than six hours, as reported in the Nature...
The next big advance in cancer treatment could be a vaccine
Drugmakers Moderna and Merck are jointly developing a personalized mRNA vaccine for patients with melanoma, with a large study to begin this year. The vaccines are customized to each patient, based on the numerous mutations in their cancer tissue After decades of...
Air conditioning in India poses risk of dramatic rise in emissions: Study
''With electricity production still based essentially on fossil fuels, air conditioning as a heat adaptation strategy risks undermining our mitigation efforts, i.e., reducing greenhouse gas emissions,'' said Enrica De Cian, professor at Ca' Foscari University of...
More positive outcomes when elders are treated locally: Study
"Intermediate care units are the newest trend in health policy, and Norway is way ahead of the curve in this regard," says Pal Erling Martinussen, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)...
UP heat wave made at least two times more likely by climate change, shows analysis
“We see again and again that climate change dramatically increases the frequency and intensity of heat waves, one of the deadliest weather events that exist. Our most recent World Weather Attribution (WWA) study has shown that this has been recognised in India, but...
Debt crises in Global South debilitating fight against climate change: Report
Hurricane Maria that hit the Carribean island of Dominica in 2017 caused damage equivalent to 226 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP).Floods in Pakistan in 2022 and cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in 2015 caused damages worth 9 per cent and 64 per cent of their...