New Combination Offers Progress Against Brain Metastases in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer When breast cancer spreads to the brain, the disease enters one of its most difficult phases. The prognosis often worsens, symptoms can become more disabling, and...
Continue readingSemaglutide and ‘Eye Stroke’: What This Possible Risk Actually Means Few phrases alarm people faster than “eye stroke”. And when that term is linked to popular weight-loss injections such as semaglutide, the reaction is often immediate: worry, confus...
Continue readingWhy Liver Cancer Linked to Obesity May Be More Aggressive and Harder to Treat For years, the conversation about obesity and liver cancer focused mainly on risk. The message seemed reasonably straightforward: excess body fat raises the likelihood of f...
Continue readingA New Alzheimer’s Platform Wants to Predict Risk by Reading the Whole Disease, Not Just One Marker For years, much of Alzheimer’s research has revolved around two headline proteins: amyloid and tau. They remain central to the disease. But the science...
Continue readingHow Glioblastoma Uses Sugar to Hide From the Immune System Cancer is often described as a disease of uncontrolled growth. But in many cases, it is also a disease of disguise. For a tumour to survive, it does not only need to multiply. It also has to...
Continue readingCould COVID Wake Up the Virus Behind Glandular Fever? What the Evidence Really Shows From early in the pandemic, it became obvious that COVID-19 was not always a short-lived respiratory illness. For some people, the infection was followed by weeks or...
Continue readingWhat Helps the Brain Stay Healthy With Age? Scientists Are Unpicking Mental Resilience Why do some people reach older age with memory, attention and independence largely intact, while others develop cognitive decline much earlier? It is one of the ce...
Continue readingBelly Fat May Matter More Than BMI for Heart Failure Risk For decades, body mass index has been the quick shorthand for whether someone’s weight may be affecting their health. It is easy to calculate, easy to compare across populations, and widely us...
Continue reading‘Mini Brains’ Are Reshaping Research — but They’re Not Replacing Lab Animals Yet Few research tools have captured the public imagination quite like “mini brains”. The phrase suggests something almost futuristic: tiny brain-like structures grown in th...
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