Chewing gum releases microplastics into mouth: researchers
Gum gets some of its chewiness from polymers similar to those used in car tires. Chewing gum releases hundreds of ...
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Brain pathway may explain higher depression rates in teen girls
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Depression is a mental health condition that affects 280 million people worldwide. It is twice as ...
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Delay of more than 42 days for breast cancer surgery raises death risk for certain subtypes, study finds
Adjusted risk (subdistribution hazard ratio ) of breast cancer-specific mortality (BCSM) associated with continuous TTS in HR + /HER2 −, HER2 + , and HR −/HER2 − ...
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Novel IVF method mimics fallopian tube environment, increasing sperm viability
Schematic representation of the two in vitro systems developed to model the sperm-oviduct interaction. Credit: Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-88986-2 ...
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Avoidable deaths are on the rise in the United States, yet falling in many peer nations
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When a person dies, clinicians often look at the cause of death to determine whether it ...
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COVID-19 brought about a large rise in blood circulation disorder cases, study suggests
Credit: European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes (2025). DOI: 10.1093/ehjqcco/qcae111 The number of patients diagnosed with ...
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Younger adults at increased risk for colon cancer
Colon cancers have been steadily increasing among people younger than 50, even as cases have declined among seniors. That's why ...
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Childhood TB cases rising in Europe, Central Asia: health agencies
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Children under 15 accounted for 4.3% of new and relapsed cases of tuberculosis in the WHO's ...
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Lifetime body weight patterns may affect kidney cancer risk
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Excess weight in midlife is a known risk factor for kidney cancer, but new research indicates ...
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Study shows AI can predict premature deaths in people with inflammatory bowel disease
Micrograph showing inflammation of the large bowel in a case of inflammatory bowel disease. Colonic biopsy. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 ...
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