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The most common fatal genetic disorder in children is Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the muscle-weakening condition affecting as many as one in 3,500 boys worldwide. “Children with DMD often die either because their heart loses the strength to pump, or … Read More

Anaemia literally means too little blood — or rather, too little healthy blood. The most ­common type is iron-­deficiency anaemia which lowers the amount of iron in red blood cells. That iron, or “haem”, gives the red colour to red … Read More

Cheese contains lots of calories, right? So you shouldn’t eat too much of it, right? Wrong. Would you believe eating half a 250g block of full-fat cheese a day lowers a person’s “bad” cholesterol to a level lower than if … Read More

The ever-changing nature of cancers, which often evolve to be drug-resistant, is one of the biggest challenges in treating them. However, a new AI technique could enable doctors to predict how cancer cells will mutate and so allow patients to … Read More

Prostate cancer is regularly in the news as advances in treatment are discovered, and so it should be. However, it’s cousin, BPH, or to give it its full name, benign prostatic hypertrophy, is more common and more easily treated. It … Read More

As though suffering a stroke isn’t bad enough, a new study has shown that people who survive one are twice as likely to develop dementia. Data from 3.2 million people – the largest study ever done on stroke and dementia … Read More

We tend to think that opioid addiction is an American problem. It isn’t. And one of the worst effects of opioid addiction is on the newborn baby of an addicted pregnant mum. A new study by the US Nationwide Children’s Hospital reveals the shocking … Read More

It has been traditional to take only one antibiotic at a time, but a new study questions that dogma. By combining several antibiotics in one go, researchers claim they’ve stumbled on a “promising” new treatment to prevent antibiotic resistance, the … Read More

About 5.4 million Britons suffer from asthma and, of these, 200,000 have severe symptoms that leave them regularly gasping for breath and requiring urgent medical care. More than 1,400 people die each year from the condition. Asthma affects the small … Read More

If you’d like your child to have a way with words, you could do worse than give them piano lessons. Playing the instrument for just six months can noticeably improve a youngster’s ­language skills, apparently. Compared to children who just … Read More