An Alzheimer’s risk gene may affect the brain before memory fails — but this story is still closer to hypothesis than proof For many years, Alzheimer’s disease was understood mainly as something that became real when memory loss became obvious. Today...
Continue readingAir pollution may speed up brain ageing — and social inequality may make that risk heavier For a long time, brain ageing was discussed mainly through familiar risk factors: genetics, education, exercise, diet, sleep, blood pressure and the passage of...
Continue readingThe same protein may look like both friend and foe in colon cancer — and Stard7 shows why tumour biology is rarely simple There is an intuitive expectation in science reporting that a protein should be one thing or the other: either it helps cancer g...
Continue readingNot being able to afford dental care may signal broader health risk — but a direct link to heart disease and dementia is not yet proven For a long time, oral health was treated as if it sat outside the rest of medicine. Tooth pain, gum disease, tooth...
Continue readingMigration can reshape cardiovascular risk — not through genetics, but through environment, routine and access to care For years, cardiovascular risk was often framed in highly individual terms: cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, body weight, s...
Continue readingBrain-based clues could reshape mental health care — but for now they are still closer to the lab than the clinic For much of its history, psychiatry has been defined by an uncomfortable reality: it has had to diagnose some of the most serious illnes...
Continue readingAutoimmune disease, chronic inflammation and cancer risk may be connected — but this evidence does not show anti-inflammatory therapy broadly lowers that risk Some medical ideas feel intuitively true long before they are fully proven. The notion that...
Continue readingLeft atrial appendage closure is gaining ground as an alternative to blood thinners for some patients with atrial fibrillation For a long time, stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation followed a fairly straightforward path: assess thromboembolic ris...
Continue readingMenopause appears to reshape breast tissue in major ways — and that may help explain shifts linked to cancer risk Menopause is often framed as a hormonal milestone, a turning point associated with hot flushes, sleep disruption, bone loss and cardiova...
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