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Eye Implant Helps Blind Patients Regain Ability to Read ……………. People who had lost their sight have regained the ability to read after receiving a pioneering electronic eye implant paired with augmented-reality glasses, ScienceDaily reported. In a European clinical trial…

Immunotherapy Drug Shows Promise in Preventing Spread of Rare Skin Cancer ………….. An immune-based cancer therapy may help prevent the spread of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare but aggressive skin cancer, when given after surgery, ScienceDaily reported. Findings from the…

New Triple-Action Cancer Drug Shows Major Promise in Shrinking Tumours ……………… Doctors have hailed “incredibly encouraging” results from a clinical trial showing that a new triple-action drug can shrink head and neck cancer tumours within six weeks, The Guardian reported.…

‘Super-Vitamin K’ Offers New Hope for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Treatment ——————————————– Japanese scientists have chemically engineered new compounds based on Vitamin K—dubbed “super-Vitamin K”—that show a heightened ability to stimulate the creation of new neurons, potentially prompting the brain to…

WHO Warns of Two Major Global Health Crises: Neurological Deaths and Antibiotic Resistance ———————————————- The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued back-to-back warnings highlighting two severe, yet distinct, global health crises that demand urgent action, according to reports released in…

Regular Tea Consumption Linked to Nearly 50% Lower Liver Cancer Risk …………… A recent study by researchers in China and the United States suggests that regular tea consumption may significantly reduce the risk of liver cancer. Published in Nutrients, the…

Three Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine for Immune Tolerance Discoveries ……………. A trio of researchers — Americans Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell, along with Japan’s Shimon Sakaguchi — have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their…

Global Cancer Deaths Projected to Rise by 75% by 2050 ————————————– A comprehensive analysis by the Global Burden of Disease Study Cancer Collaborators projects that global cancer deaths will increase by approximately 75% by 2050, reaching an estimated 18.6 million…

Hospitals See Alarming 460% Spike in NDM-CRE “Superbug” Infections —————————– Hospitals worldwide face a growing crisis as infections caused by NDM-CRE (NDM-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales)—bacteria resistant to most powerful antibiotics—have surged, according to a new study referenced on Earth.com. The analysis,…

Global Health Crisis Looms as Funding Cuts Threaten Fight Against AIDS, TB, and Malaria ———————————- Global efforts to combat three of the world’s most widespread infectious diseases—AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria—are now severely threatened by dramatic cuts to global health…