Diet, malaria and substance use linked to Pacific preterm births

Diet, malaria and substance use linked to Pacific preterm births. A new Curtin University study has found diet, malaria, substance use and a lack of antenatal care services are linked to one in 10 babies in the Pacific Island region being born preterm and of low birth weight. Published in leading journal The Lancet Regional […]

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Diet, malaria and substance use linked to Pacific preterm births

Diet, malaria and substance use linked to Pacific preterm births. A new Curtin University study has found diet, malaria, substance use and a lack of antenatal care services are linked to one in 10 babies in the Pacific Island region being born preterm and of low birth weight. Published in leading journal The Lancet Regional […]

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Long Covid breathing device

Handheld breathing device could reduce breathlessness and improve physical fitness in long COVID patients: New research presented at The Physiological Society’s Long COVID: Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Recovery on 22 – 23 February shows that a small handheld breathing device helped reduced breathlessness and improved physical fitness of people with long COVID. The low cost, home-based rehabilitation programme […]

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Long Covid breathing device

Handheld breathing device could reduce breathlessness and improve physical fitness in long COVID patients: New research presented at The Physiological Society’s Long COVID: Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Recovery on 22 – 23 February shows that a small handheld breathing device helped reduced breathlessness and improved physical fitness of people with long COVID. The low cost, home-based rehabilitation programme […]

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Covid protection for vulnerable communities in Zimbabwe

Covid prevention campaign launched for vulnerable communities in Zimbabwe: A public health expert at the University of Wolverhampton is working in collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe to educate the prevention of Covid-19 in vulnerable communities. An award-winning researcher, Dr Moses Murandu at the University of Wolverhampton and Dr Julita Maradzika a lecturer in Public […]

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Covid protection for vulnerable communities in Zimbabwe

Covid prevention campaign launched for vulnerable communities in Zimbabwe: A public health expert at the University of Wolverhampton is working in collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe to educate the prevention of Covid-19 in vulnerable communities. An award-winning researcher, Dr Moses Murandu at the University of Wolverhampton and Dr Julita Maradzika a lecturer in Public […]

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The USA’s 2022 fentanyl epidemic

The USA’s 2022 Fentanyl Epidemic: Headlines have been full of reports on COVID-related fatalities, but there’s something as contagious that’s responsible for even more deaths in the US: the fentanyl epidemic. In 2021 alone, 41,587 people aged 18 to 45 died due to fentanyl overdose. In the same time period, and for the same age […]

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The USA’s 2022 fentanyl epidemic

The USA’s 2022 Fentanyl Epidemic: Headlines have been full of reports on COVID-related fatalities, but there’s something as contagious that’s responsible for even more deaths in the US: the fentanyl epidemic. In 2021 alone, 41,587 people aged 18 to 45 died due to fentanyl overdose. In the same time period, and for the same age […]

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Diseased male livers undergo sex-change

Diseased male livers undergo sex-change: The livers of men diagnosed with hepatic diseases change sex as part of a potential self-protective mechanism, according to University of Queensland research. Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) lead researcher, Associate Professor Frederic Gachon said the surprise discovery was made during an investigation into why disruption of the body’s circadian clock is associated with […]

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Diseased male livers undergo sex-change

Diseased male livers undergo sex-change: The livers of men diagnosed with hepatic diseases change sex as part of a potential self-protective mechanism, according to University of Queensland research. Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) lead researcher, Associate Professor Frederic Gachon said the surprise discovery was made during an investigation into why disruption of the body’s circadian clock is associated with […]

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