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Men drink more, are more likely to binge drink and are almost four times more likely to develop alcohol use disorder than women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet when it comes to diagnosing babies born…

Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability, may be unfolding in brain cells even before birth, despite typically going undiagnosed until age 3 or later. A new study published today in the journal Neuron by…

Researchers have shown in a mouse model and lab cultures that a compound derived from hops reduces the abundance of a gut bacterium associated with metabolic syndrome. The findings, published today in the journal Microbiome, are important…

Get to know your flatmates – it makes life easier. I wish I’d known just how important getting settled with my flatmates would be. I wasn’t as open to them as they were to each other, and before I knew it they had organised a flat agreement…

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Cardiovascular diseases continue to be the leading causes of death worldwide. Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors including hypertension and obesity, significantly increases the likelihood of cardiovascular diseases. Behavioral…

A University of Otago study has added weight to the evidence that watching too much television as a child can lead to poor health in adulthood. The research, led by Professor Bob Hancox, of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine,…

The widespread, pathogenic microbe Staphylococcus aureus can colonize the skin and mucous membranes throughout the body, particularly the vagina and gastrointestinal tract. A virulent strain of the bacterium produces proteins that trigger…

QTORIN™ rapamycin has potential to become first approved therapy and standard of care for Microcystic Lymphatic Malformations in U.S.; significant commercial opportunity based on an estimated more than 30,000 individuals in the U.S. with…

Research has questioned guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) that people with chronic fatigue syndrome should be discouraged from using graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy to…